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The fact that Cathy has a blue check mark proves Twitter is fucking stupid.
Well it doesn’t mean what it used to anymore. Now you just pay for a subscription and you get it. Hell, I don’t know why you ever thought the check mark pre-Musk ever meant anything other than somebody’s identity being verified as true judging by what you’re saying… Never meant that their opinions were Twitter approved or whatever.
The blue check went through some twists and turns. Originally it was meant as “your identity is verified”, then it became a status symbol, then it had extra features attached to it. At one point the people approving them were literally taking bribes to expedite or guarantee your blue check (like personal bribes, not a payment to Twitter). And at some point along the way it somehow became a “Twitter approves” thing, because at least one person had their blue check stripped for going too far as a right wing troll (Milo Yianno-whatever). All of that pre-Muak.
Post-Musk, it’s just a subscription you pay for with some extra features and there’s now a different checkmark for corporate or government entities that merely verifies their identity.
When somebody insists, “X doesn’t matter because my salary depends on X,” it’s time to stop beating your head against a wall to teach them anything.
Nah, nah, you see - I had an excellent breakfast today. Clearly that means world hunger doesn’t exist! Checkmate, leftist!
There are two schools of thought:
Those who want as good life as possible, and Those who want to have a better life than everyone else, no matter what.
Net income is a small factor. One should compare the total package because the unions are usually way ahead of the non-union.
My company was spread across 3 unions. 1 and 2 got decent healthcare. 3 got a $1000 signing bonus. I hear they like pizza parties.
My union gives me benefits that are included in my $30/month dues and I’m not even full time.
“Rising waters lifts all ships”, Cathy. Ever heard of it?
“This is my water! You go float on your own water!”
It’s worse.
It’s “I’ll have you rising my water thank you, but I refuse to concede anything that could help you.”
Yeah Cathy, sheesh
I got higher at position as senior. But It wasn’t until I was able to join the Union that my income doubled. Year before I joined like in 2007 manager gave me a .10 raise. This shit is real.
This doesn’t even need to be in your contract. When union shops get a raise, non-union shops either have to compete, or lose their best labour.
Cathy do the mathy. Missed opportunity
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Who negotiated for Cathy? She didn’t need collective bargaining, she needed to learn to stand up for herself - as every worker should.
Individual workers do not have the leverage to “stand up for themselves,” they just get knocked down. In all likelyhood, this was just the contract that Cathy was offered.
Their leverage is their value to the company. If you’re not capable of providing more than minimum value for your employer, then why should you work for that company? Find a company you can do more for.
That’s not much leverage when there are many, many, people who need work to to live. Against a lone laborer, management holds almost all the cards. There’s always someone more desperate.
If you’re not capable of providing more than minimum value for your employer, then why should you work for that company? Find a company you can do more for.
Are you for real? “Find a company you can do more for”? Fuck that. More like:
If your employer can’t pay you more than the minimum for the value of your work, then why should you work for that company? Find a company that will pay you for the value of your work.
Why would I ever do more work than what I’m being compensated for?
Not all of us “live to work.” There’s more to life than your job.
“who negotiated for Cathy” well if her contract is pegged to union pay then the union negotiates for cathy
If I were Cathy, I would help that union raise their pay and membership.
Management probably giving that $0.50 bump hoping to discourage union membership and undermine their negotiating power.
Most definitely, but the leeches still get a higher pay than they usually would - until the union collapses.
Kind of funny… Idiots.
poe’s law is real. Can’t tell if unmarked joke, or just doesn’t know anything about the history of labor or what.
User tagging is great for this
They’re a shitstain!
This is what Swedish unions did even more directly. A company hired labour from Latvia I think it was. The union showed up and said that thats all fine, but you have to pay them properly. None of them were members. They picketed the company for the sake of non-members wages. Why? To avoid social dumping down the line.
Pretty soon we won’t be able to trust BLS data, which is frightening.
The BLS data has historically been a method by which capitalists measured and managed labor power as a fungible resource. It has historically been a tool of capital to evaluate the influence of policy on labor, not a tool of labor to pressure capital for concessions.
Not to say the information isn’t valuable on its face. But it should be worth recognizing that we are looking at autocannibalization of capital. The people most injured by dismantling the BLS are the people who do the bulk of the hiring, not the people being hired.
Together we bargain, alone we beg.
This needs to be on a fucking t-shirt.
Sure. Have your pro Union T-shirt. And what better place to buy it from than
https://www.amazon.com/Union-Workers-Bargain-Collectively-T-Shirt/dp/B08XHYS16W
Speacial offer for Prime Members: Order today and get to watch the first 30 Minutes of Fightclub Ad-free.
Because unions don’t have merch or produce anything they might want to promote amirite
Look for the union bug.
https://www.bostonbusinessprinting.com/whats-union-bug-questions-need-ask-print/
Ah, might be my wired humor kicking in. I just found it hilarious to find that T-shirt on Amazon of all things. It’s like a Butcher selling Vegan cakes. Amazon is like the Anti-Thesis to Unions, but happy to make a buck selling the line.
It felt like a “discount etsy agitprop” moment to me. Just shows how ridiculous capitalis is, realy.
But than again, I am wired sometimes. My humour doesn’t always translate. Oh well.
I thought it was funny.
Well I thought it was funny.
“wired”. lol.
“your statistic is false because I have an anecdote” is literally the entire basis of the conservative understanding of science.
union workers don’t make more on average because I earn half a dollar more.
global warming isn’t happening because I brought a snowball.
vaccines cause death because my friend walked out of a clinic after a shot and got hit by a self driving tesla.
Global warming is a hoax, it’s cold in my basement today!
It really is a kind of solipsism, emotional immaturity as a self-justifying worldview. Problems don’t exist until they impact me personally, repeat and nauseam.
vaccines cause death because my friend walked out of a clinic after a shot and got hit by a self driving tesla.
😂
Because I have an anecdote, and interpret it in the stupidest way possible, as exhibited in the OP
“conservative understanding”
Sounds like all conservatives are idiots or rather idiots are the ones who are politically conservative.it’s both. conservatism is both appealing to stupid people and it compounds stupidity.
I can continue to eat things that kill me because I take statins that reduce my chance of heart attack by a couple percent.
