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A community for those who want to end work, are curious about ending work, want to get the most out of a work-free life, want more information on anti-work ideas and want personal help with their own jobs/work-related struggles.
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- The Abolition of Work by Bob Black (1985) | listen
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- In Praise of Idleness by Bertrand Russell (1932) | listen
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He's entitled to do whatever he wants with his vehicles. That doesn't mean it's a good business decision, he's not entitled to succeed.
Well, among good business decisions is exploiting workers. In fact, historically, it is the very best kind.
Considering the person in OPs story can't even find employees willing to work under the offered conditions, id argue it's difficult to exploit a staff of zero.
as one CEO put it so nicely, "we need to increase unemployment, so the people learn their place"
The observation that workers are exploited is one that is remarkably plain and simple for anyone to make.
Exploiting workers is entirely the purpose of private business.
You are applying labels you obviously understand extremely poorly.
The observation that workers are exploited is one that is completely straightforward, and is broadly understood in any pro-worker space.
Do you have any useful insights, observations, or questions about workers being exploited by business?
So far you have only made useless noises.
Your inability to understand ain't really my problem buddy. We've established you have zero authority here, you and I both agreed on that point.
What you mean to say is you feel I've only made useless noises, which is cool, you're allowed to have all the feelings you want.
What is your weird hangup concerning the topic of authority?
After as many as about half a dozen comments, you still have not even attempted to discuss the actual subject of both the thread and the community, the subject of worker exploitation.
Why would you seek participation in either, only to discuss a different subject, by tossing around unrelated ad-hominem labels?
My position is that workers are exploited by private businesses.
In relation to the claim, which I clarified several items, you repeatedly revealed some fixation on the concept of authority.
What is the relationship between worker exploitation and authority, according to the understanding you wish to represent as your own?
Listen, clown, I will make the whole process as simple as possible, so that you can avoid further confusion.
You believe that a Marxist is anyone who affirms that businesses exploit workers.
A Marxist is not someone who affirms that businesses exploit workers.
Your ignorance and bullishness are pathetic.
You cannot learn, because you cannot discuss, and you cannot discuss, because you can only behave like a hotheaded buffoon.
Now, troll elsewhere.
You don't know the meaning of the term Marxist.
You contribute nothing except ad hominem.
You have no idea how stupid and weak you appear to anyone who even slightly understands the subjects who are failing to engage.
Your are ignorant, arrogant, and pathetic.
Fuck off, troll.
Are you the stupedist shithead who ever lived?
If not, your impersonation is beyond brilliant.
I'm good.
You, however, are quite deranged.
You have revealed some rather unhinged obsessions.
No one is trying "to control the conversation", or to inflict "authority".
You just locked on to a bunch of paranoid and incogent delusions.
Good luck with all of it.
Nope. Sorry.
You're wrong again, just as you have been in every other comment.
I am not angry, and I never called you stupid.
I have called you ignorant, arrogant, and pathetic, because such is certainly how you appear, based on your comments and behavior.
I also have emphasized that certain responses make you appear as a stupid shithead.
The observations are valid, due to how you have responded and behaved, as would be plain to anyone who has a modicum of understanding, or seeks to acquire any, over the terms and tactics you have chosen to invoke.
You also are so deeply confused to believe that any conversation is occurring.
No conversation has ever occurred between us. You rejected all the opportunities to hold a conversation. You have failed repeatedly to make even the remotest attempt to engage any subject for discussion.
All that is happening is your ranting delusive and paranoid bunk, making you appear, to anyone thoughtful, like a stupid shithead.
In turn, I am drawing attention to how stupid and shitty you are continuing to make yourself appear.