Since I have a poor memory, would someone please remind me why it is harmful for the working class to continue allowing production to fall under the consolidated control of oligarchs?

I know there must be some reason, but I seem to keep forgetting.

Different kinds of labor take different skills, not more or less, better or worse.

I guess lying to employees about the law is just what families do.

I think when one small group holds power, the effects for everyone else are usually shitty.

The issue may be more related to power itself, rather than to those who hold it.

If he owns vehicles, then he is entitled to exploit people to drive them.

The system has conditioned him to find a way to rationalize that he is victim.

Laws protect business, not workers.

Workers form unions because they want to fight capital, not because they somehow have an option to take control of the workplace, but refuse to do so because they love their bosses.

Full time work being thirty two hours each week would be a compromise.

The defining principle of the systems under which we live is work or die.

No conditions under such a system would be ideal, and any would be a compromise.

Considering all the years that have passed since the Haymarket massacre, and all that has been sacrificed, fighting for thirty two hours is hardly radical or outrageous.

The population seems complacent to accept that employers seek unlimited power, merely because no other channel is available for earning one's survival.

No way of relating to an abusive system is ever considered, except capitulation.

In fact, I feel alarmed at how readily many will imagine some grave threat from a hypothetical coworker who uses substances, without ever considering the threat of abandoning one's own privacy.

It is so important that we revitalize labor organization and practice mutual aid.

No one may survive alone, and no one should be alone.

Only by taking the workplace and reclaiming the commons may we escape the isolation and precarity forced on us by the systems that tower over us.

Fortunately greater numbers are coming to realize that the Gates Foundation's function was never much more than reputation laundering.

American workers historically have understood clearly that their antagonist is the capitalist class, who uses the hollow abstraction of "the economy", framed as an end in itself, to distract from its selfish pursuit of private accumulation.

It is time that everyone finally wake up and join the shared struggle.