You know, this wouldn’t be a problem if you had decided to have the moxy (aka $250,000 in startup capital from your parents) required to make yourself into a self made billionaire. If you’d gone that way, you could afford to hire a private chef by now.
You know, soy milk is a beverage that has protein.
Let me spell that out:
it is a beverage (can be pulled out of the fridge and consumed in a matter of seconds)
that has protein (can be used to substitute for part of a meal)
There have been days when I got my carbs from apple juice and my protein from soy milk. And also, like, a carrot or two. (Those can also be eaten with peanut butter.)
In order to understand where people are coming from when they criticize this system, you must understand the difference between a worker co-op and a privately owned company.
Most people think,
Well, it’s just a different ownership structure. It’s not much different than when workers are rewarded with stock options. Co-ops and companies are both examples of capitalist organizations.
But to those of us criticizing the current system, that’s like saying dictatorships and republics are “just different examples of governments,” and that aside from a different managerial structure, both kinds of government fundamentally serve the same purpose.
They don’t. When it comes to dictatorships vs representative governments, the entire social contract is different. The entire relationship between government official and citizen, between worker and manager, is different.
Free Speech
The citizen in a dictatorship and worker in an… autocratic company (for want of a better word) must both self-police their speech, asking “will this get me prosecuted/fired?” Just taking a harsh tone with your boss can lose you your job. There’s a pretty good NPR article about what bosses are legally allowed to fire you for. And even having different political beliefs is on the list.
Meanwhile, the citizen in a democracy/republic and workers in a cooperative have no such limitations. Their speech is only limited by a general, “do not harm others” guideline that gets spelled out on a case by case basis in courts (for governments) or in discussions with your coworkers (at a co-op).
Expenses
Again, in both an autocratic company and an autocratic government, the citizen has no control over where money is spent and doesn’t get to choose which contractors/suppliers the organization uses.
Contrast that with democratic workplaces/governments, where voters are constantly discussing the budget, audits, social security, how to trim waste, how much to pay local farmers for ingredients, etc…
It’s not only that you must agree to become subservient in order to continue working at an autocratic company. You also get no voice in the organization that sustains itself (at least in part) off of your labor.
These are irreconcilable differences.
You don’t say “well, whichever governments come out on top must be the fittest, strongest governments. Let the arena of war be an impartial judge deciding which governments are superior.”
To the contrary, you most likely recoil in shock when a dictatorship invades a democracy. You most likely cheer on every strategic victory the democracy achieves.
Because the state of existence of a citizen under a representative government is considered worthy of protection independently of whether it helps that government achieve military victories. The rights of a citizen are considered more important than the question of whether a government that protects and respects those rights can be efficient.
All we ask of you is to consider the same for a worker. To consider the possibility that a worker might have certain unalienable rights that must be protected even if it’s hypothetically inefficient (in reality co-ops are more efficient, btw. As are democracies. The only reason they are less common is because unlike viruses, cancer, and companies owned by individuals and/or shareholders, co-ops do not have the capacity to induce rapid grow by destroying their host.) We ask that you consider the possibility that the worker – simply in working for a company – deserves a say in the operation of that company.
I want to respond to writing prompts, but from a separate account. That way, if someone enjoys a story, they can scroll through my (alt account’s) history for more writing without needing to dig through all of the dramatic, vitriolic, shit-stirring my main account will be regularly diving into....
This is one hell of a write up, stranger. Thank you!
Mastodon and calckey have the most active writing communities imo.
It is very difficult to search for something when you don’t know it exists. Now that I know Mastodon and calckey have a vibrant writing community that you recommend, I know there’s some value to finding it and learning how to immerse my account in that community. Much appreciated.
I think the best route is a lemmy or kbin author account combined with mastodon. Instances rarely matter in terms of where you join, so long as it’s a fairly stable and not heavily defederated/defederating one.
You even gave a recommended route!? Seriously, you have my gratitude. This is awesome.
By “combined with mastodon” do you mean to create one new account at lemmy or kbin and one at mastodon? Or do you mean to create one new account at lemmy or kbin and use it to connect with the writing communities at mastodon?
I use this Android benchmark website whenever a sibling asks me, “what phone should I get?”
It’s not a precise comparison. (In fact, it rates different carrier software running the same LG G710 phone hardware as anything from 7,000 to 8,000.) And it reminds you of its imprecision several times.
But some phones made today benchmark like they’re seven years old. And the site helps you avoid those egregious cases.
The name is pretty self-explanatory, but even if you don’t know the exact program you’re looking for, the search tool can find you programs based on a description like, “photo editor” or “markdown editor.”
It’s one of the first places I go when looking for software. Especially open source software.
Except there’s no need to hypothesize about what the “the other side” wants. They have been perfectly vocal about what they think are issues that need to be “solved”:
Accurate history lessons
Transgender people
Women’s ability to have deadly ectopic pregnancies removed
"Urban" people
The right to protest against the flag
Gay people
If you have enough knowledge of history to know what a “final solution” looks like, you are justified in seeing “the other side” as the main problem.
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I’m going to come to the conclusion that people are simply uneducated. Simply based on the responses I’ve already gotten....
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I want an alt account for writing. Is there a corner of the Fediverse you recommend?
I want to respond to writing prompts, but from a separate account. That way, if someone enjoys a story, they can scroll through my (alt account’s) history for more writing without needing to dig through all of the dramatic, vitriolic, shit-stirring my main account will be regularly diving into....
What are some useful links everyone should know?
I’ll start with one of the most useful singular list of lists on the internet....
neither left nor right rule (lemmy.ml)
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You know those sci-fi teleporters like in Star Trek where you disappear from one location then instantaneously reappear in another location? Do you trust that they are safe to use?...
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Inspired by the linked XKCD. Using 60% instead of 50% because that’s an easy filter to apply on rottentomatoes....
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