bhaugen
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They used #racial ideology to construct a global division of #labor, a massively inequitable global division of #wages, & a global #hierarchy of rights. Racial ideology was promoted so aggressively that it developed its own momentum of #hatred & #violence.
#Politics#Democrats#Republicans#Liberals#Conservatives#Vote#Election#DemocraticParty#DNC#RepublicanParty#Trump#Biden#KamalaHarris#TimWalz#Democracy#US#USA#Musk#Fascism#Fascist#BernieSanders#AOC#FraudSquad#Progressive
They used #racial ideology to construct a global division of #labor, a massively inequitable global division of #wages, & a global #hierarchy of rights. Racial ideology was promoted so aggressively that it developed its own momentum of #hatred & #violence.
#Politics#Democrats#Republicans#Liberals#Conservatives#Vote#Election#DemocraticParty#DNC#RepublicanParty#Trump#Biden#KamalaHarris#TimWalz#Democracy#US#USA#Musk#Fascism#Fascist#BernieSanders#AOC#FraudSquad#Progressive
bhaugen
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This is where #imperialism comes in. As Utsa Patnaik puts it, #capitalism requires “an #imperial arrangement” to maintain access to cheap #labor & cheap #nature, and thereby to stabilize accumulation.
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This is where #imperialism comes in. As Utsa Patnaik puts it, #capitalism requires “an #imperial arrangement” to maintain access to cheap #labor & cheap #nature, and thereby to stabilize accumulation.
#Politics#Democrats#Republicans#Liberals#Conservatives#Vote#Election#DemocraticParty#DNC#RepublicanParty#RNC#GOP#DonaldTrump#Trump #JDVance#Vance#JoeBiden#Biden#KamalaHarris#TimWalz#Democracy#US#USA#ElonMusk#Musk#Fascism#Fascist#BernieSanders#AOC#FraudSquad#Progressive
To avoid this outcome, you need some kind of “outside”, an external frontier, where you can exploit #labor & #nature with impunity, where you can externalize #social & #ecological costs, and where any rebellions can be destroyed with brute force.
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To maintain the process of perpetual accumulation requires massive quantities of cheap #labor & cheap #nature. You have to deny people control over their #land, & deny #workers access to the yields of their #production.
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“Quiet cracking” is a funny way of saying “over-exploited”.
Employers as a whole are now exploiting and extracting (i.e. stealing) so much value from labor—and demonstrating that they only want to devalue labor even more—that laborers no longer think the commercial exchange is worth their time and attention, so they disengage.
Focusing too much on laborers to help them cope or deal is a band-aid; this is a systemic breaking point, and we can’t all outrun the system. Focus on changing the system.
#capitalism #labor #ai #burnout#rotEconomy #enshittification
“Quiet cracking” is a funny way of saying “over-exploited”.
Employers as a whole are now exploiting and extracting (i.e. stealing) so much value from labor—and demonstrating that they only want to devalue labor even more—that laborers no longer think the commercial exchange is worth their time and attention, so they disengage.
Focusing too much on laborers to help them cope or deal is a band-aid; this is a systemic breaking point, and we can’t all outrun the system. Focus on changing the system.
#capitalism #labor #ai #burnout#rotEconomy #enshittification
Alex Akselrod
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Alex Akselrod
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I might not be the in best of moods today (thanks Apple!) but this rant has been brewing for a few weeks. Let's explore what we as tech workers can actually do about the cancer known as Big Tech, shall we?
https://itfossil.com/posts/2025/8/we-are-the-wage-slaves-who-build-big-tech-empires/
I might not be the in best of moods today (thanks Apple!) but this rant has been brewing for a few weeks. Let's explore what we as tech workers can actually do about the cancer known as Big Tech, shall we?
https://itfossil.com/posts/2025/8/we-are-the-wage-slaves-who-build-big-tech-empires/
Cory Doctorow
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Artist/writer Molly Crabapple has a book coming out about the Jewish Bund, a secular Jewish labor organization (or organizations) in the early 20th century. If that sounds rather dry, I remember reading some of Molly's social media posts when she was starting to research the Bund, and they were fascinating. Not least because the Bundists seemed to be so far ahead of their time, socially and politically.
Available for pre-order now.
Artist/writer Molly Crabapple has a book coming out about the Jewish Bund, a secular Jewish labor organization (or organizations) in the early 20th century. If that sounds rather dry, I remember reading some of Molly's social media posts when she was starting to research the Bund, and they were fascinating. Not least because the Bundists seemed to be so far ahead of their time, socially and politically.
Available for pre-order now.
Agaric Tech Collective
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America is built on prison labor. When will the labor movement defend prisoners?
“Incarcerated workers are a part of the working class,” award-winning journalist Kim Kelly says. And we are “not telling the real history of labor in this country if [we’re] not focusing on the organizing efforts and the labor of people who are in prison.”
https://therealnews.com/prison-labor-movement-incarcerated-workers
¡Abbie!
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taking care of your family, be they children or elderly, healthy or infirm, is #labor. household work like cooking, cleaning, gardening, painting, shopping, healing, mentoring, parenting, decorating, repairs ―all labor.
you have never been paid for all your labor. if you’re a woman, doubly so.
this is why the #feminism of ex-CIA operative and former Henry Kissinger lover, Gloria Steinem, is bullshit.
they never fought for #UBI.
USA’s minimum wage should be $35/hr.
Gabriele Svelto
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From the Verdigris House to the Rear Palace: Sex workers’ perspective on The Apothecary Diaries
Kyli Rodriguez-Cayro speaks with other sex workers about the series' depiction of the profession, and how it subverts many common harmful tropes.
From the Verdigris House to the Rear Palace: Sex workers’ perspective on The Apothecary Diaries
Kyli Rodriguez-Cayro speaks with other sex workers about the series' depiction of the profession, and how it subverts many common harmful tropes.