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daily reminder that there is absolutely nothing normal about being expected to waste a majority of your life at a corporation to survive instead of indulging in better life experiences ✨
In the 1960s it was a common speculation that by 1980 the typical work week would consist of 4 days. And by the year 2000 we’d be working no more than 3 days a week.
Because of computerization, automation, and better efficiencies in workflow.
Guess what happened instead?
Some dude in 2020: You should not judge a historical figure, a man from the past, by the modern ethics! He was a product of his time. 500 years ago his actions were completely normal! It’s present-ism, we can’t judge… bla-bla-bla…
People from 500 years ago: Oh my, this guy is such a bastard, a genocidal butcher, a total piece of garbage. Let’s keep records of this douche so people from the future shall hate him too.
Columbus’s crew were writing about what a genocidal monster he was. There were mutinies and uprisings by his crews and colonists constantly. If his contemporaries were willing to risk the ire of the queen of Spain to oppose him, we have every right to call him out on it too.
Republicans, a week ago mocking RBG's death:
Republicans when 200K Americans die:
Republicans when you make fun of Trump getting COVID:
Call center workers pay for the privilege
If you only learn one technical term from labor economics, make it “chickenization” - Christopher Leonard’s term for the way that the Big Three poultry processors have structured the chicken-farming industry (I learned it from Zephyr Teachout). https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/29/break-em-up/#break-em-up Here’s chickenization: you’re a chicken farmer. There is only one company that can buy your birds, thanks to market concentration. They tell you how to design and maintain your coop. They sell you the chicks. They tell you which feed to use, how much and when. They tell you when the lights go on and when they go off. They tell you how which vet to use, and which medicines they can use. They bind you to secrecy through nondisclosure and strip you of the right to sue through arbitration. They experiment on you. Your barn is filled with sensors that they monitor, and they tell you to vary feed, lighting, medicine and other variables to see if your birds get bigger. They are the only buyer in your region, so they know how each farmer’s birds are thriving. But if the “independent” farmers ever tried to compare notes, they’d be violating their nondisclosure agreements and could be sued. Farmers who complain to regulators are barred from the market. Once your birds are grown, you bring them to the processor, who exploits their information asymmetry to figure out how to pay you JUST ENOUGH to go back to things, but not enough to get ahead. Since chickenization, poultry farmers have faced a wave of suicides. Once you know about chickenization, you see it everywhere: crop farmers are chickenized by seed companies, and Uber drivers are chickenized by their apps. The contours of chickenization are impossible to miss: it’s a shifting of all the risk from the employer’s side of the balance sheet to the workers’, using the fiction of independent contractorship, the data-gathering capabilities of digital work, and monopolies. Today, I learned about the worst chickenization scheme I’ve ever encountered: a giant, global company that has chickenized a vast workforce, but maintains total secrecy, even as it services massive blue-chip companies from Airbnb to Disney. That company is Arise, and Propublica and Planet Money just blew the roof off its ghastly charnel house of a chicken farm by, as Ken Armstrong, Justin Elliott and Ariana Tobin reported out leaks, arbitration reports, and whistleblower accounts. https://www.propublica.org/article/meet-the-customer-service-reps-for-disney-and-airbnb-who-have-to-pay-to-talk-to-you#1001065 Here’s chickenization, Arise style: the company is a outsource phone support system. Workers have to pay to work for Arise (they’re “independent contractors”): buy a dedicated PC, internet connection and other equipment. They have to do weeks of unpaid “training” just to get started, and then they have to pay more to get specific training for every one of Arise’s giant corporate clients, from AT&T to Carnival Cruises to Comcast to Disney to Airbnb to Intuit to Barnes and Noble to Ebay. After passing random, invasive, in-home inspections, after shelling out thousands of dollars and doing weeks - if not months - of unpaid training, they are finally eligible to sign up for shifts. These shifts come in 30 minute slices, widely spaced, and turning them down gets you blacklisted. It’s impossible to hold down another job while you’re an Arise chicken-farmer. But you don’t get paid for 30-minute shifts. You just get paid for the time that you’re talking to customers. The whole time you talk to a customer, an algorithm is ready to penalize you: i.e., if it takes too long to deal with queries, or if there’re too many pauses. Meanwhile, the client’s outsource managers randomly (or not-randomly) listen in on your calls, and they can penalize you too. The main penalty is being “deskilled” - barred from working for that client, after paying (in cash and time) to get trained to be their phone rep. Workers are barred from hanging up on abusive customers. Women report high levels of sexual harassment, which they have to patiently endure, because they risk getting fired if they hang up on their abusers. And all workers are expected to tolerate unlimited abuse from callers. 64% of Arise’s workers are people of color. 89% of them are women. Arise’s recruiting ads target Black women in particular. There *is* a way to get ahead in Arise: recruit other workers. Because, in addition to everything else, it’s a pyramid scheme, and the business is riddled with people who’ve been previously convicted of wire fraud. Nearly every person in the Arise structure is chickenized:. The following jobs are all performed by “independent contractors”:
Client Support Professionals
Quality Assurance Performance Facilitators
Chat Performance Facilitators
Escalation Performance Facilitators
Not only do you have to pay to work for Arise - you have to pay (a “contract termination fee”) to stop working for them. Arise binds workers to arbitration, meaning they can’t sue. The right of workers to join class actions in spite of arbitration waivers went to the Supreme Court in ‘18, where the illegitimate justice Neal Gorsuch wrote the majority opinion, ruling against workers. Arise honors Juneteenth with a day off for all employees. But all those Black women it has chickenized are independent businesses and are still expected to show up for work. Arise’s founder is Richard Cherry, a Canadian “serial entrepreneur” who started off writing scammy get-rich-quick and lose-weight-quick books before moving to Florida and getting heavily involved with the Home Shopping Network. Today, the company is a division of a giant private equity fund, Warburg Pincus.
Michael Myers 😄😄 🔪 🔪 😂 😏
I want a movie EXACTLY like this one. With soundtrack and all.
THIS IS THE SUPREME HORROR MOVIE IDEA
Blade Runner 2049 (2017) dir. Denis Villeneuve
Yeppers! Non college educated old white men put this mentally ill idiot in the white house.
Ya know, my older mother has a Masters degree and about 1/3 of her Phd studies done. She does not watch Fox News or much news media at all beyond the 6 o’clock local broadcast. After the election, while we were watching the news and she was going on and on about how glad she was to see a lovely first lady with class, who knew her place, in the White House, I objected. And she literally started crying and told me that she wishes that she had never wasted her money sending me to college just so I could be turned into a hateful liberal.I told her that I remember her telling me about the race riots in Detroit in the 60′s and about how there was a tank parked in her front yard and about how that should never happen again. I told her that Pete Seeger and Joan Baez and Peter, Paul and Mary wanted their albums back because if she couldn’t listen to what they were saying anymore, she shouldn’t listen to them at all. She told me to leave her house until I could be civil and not twist people words.
It’s not just a lack of education or a stereotypical redneck upbringing and lifestyle that causes people to not only tolerate, but defend “conservative” movements and politicians right now. My mother is just an example of a major cognitive shift that happened to much of her generation. Something happened to these Free Love wanting, Earth Day celebrating, Civil Rights marchers and it terrified them into the arms of hate and greed. It scares me because I’ve been alive for awhile too and I can’t for the life of me, figure out what happened. We need to make sure it doesn’t happen to us.
It’s not as simple as Trump voter and teabagger stereotypes, as we have found out, almost anyone can put on a MAGA hat if they are afraid enough.
…and, at the time of his death, he was one of the most hated people in the USA.
The FBI sent him a letter trying to convince him to commit suicide. Don’t let this revisionist bullshit slide. The things they say now about protests, kneeling, etc, are the same things they said about the sit-ins and marches.
respectability politics is a trap.
respectability politics is a trap.
respectability politics is a trap.
Look at this vintage political cartoon. Reactions to MLK and BLM are near identical.
His own kids are telling yall not to fall for the bullshit
I had to post this!!! Ppl so disgusting
LOL white men like to act tough as shit until they realize that for the first time in their life there might actually be consequences for their actions
Is that Tinder?? Is he literally swiping right on Black people JUST to say racist shit to them? WOW. WOOOOOOOW.
“I feel my future will be ruined by this.”
DONT??? BE RACIST???
If your in school and reading this, refuse to go to school. Or if they force you, do a sort down strike. Refuse to go to classes. Get your friends to do the same. WEAR A FUCKING MASK.
They are killing you, your friends, their families, your teachers and thousands of random people who you will end up infecting. They are sending you back knowing that you will get sick and die or get other people killed. Dont let them. Your life isnt worth it.
That’s my moms school in one of those pictures. She teaches math. Let me tell you exactly how bad it is. There are between 28-33 students in all of my moms classes. The desks are all less than 2 feet away from each other, and facemasks are not required. Teachers are not allowed to tell students to wear masks. There are no temperature checks or other preventative measures being taken in an effort to keep symptomatic kids home. The school gave the teachers a “cleaning kit” which consisted of a single spray bottle of cleaning solution and a stack of brown recycled paper towels. They cant even use those cleaning kites, because it turns out that that solution is caustic, and will burn students hands if they come in contact with it. Teachers are banned from using their own money to buy normal brand sanitizers like lysol bcs they havent been approved by the fda for use within schools. The janitors are not required to sanitize the classrooms; instead the teachers are expected to do it between every class- a break of 7 minutes. Teachers are not allowed to construct any protective measures such as clear plastic shields between desks. Students are still eating their lunches in the cafeteria, a room which holds 500 students at a time.
Not only are these school districts being negligent in forcing these kids back to school, they are actively working against teachers attempting to do anything to minimize the risk.
There has already been on positive case at my moms school, of a student who spent two full days in class. An elementary school in another county has already had to shut down completely after an outbreak in a 2nd grade class. Schools have only been open for 3 days.
These school districts are putting students, teachers, and faculty at risk of illness and death because their arrogance and pride will not allow them to admit they might be wrong. Its despicable, and I hope every one of the bastards in charge of this decision gets fired and sued, and never placed in charge of children ever again
Literally anyone who’s read the results of any other time this experiment has been tried. Why are we still trying to prove the concept?
Here’s the link if anyone wants it!
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2242937-universal-basic-income-seems-to-improve-employment-and-well-being/
Finland’s two-year test of universal basic income has concluded that it doesn't seem to disincentivise working, and improves recipients’ men
We’re still trying to prove the concept because in the West, Big Business and their owners, The 1%, are screaming at the thought of having to give up a little money so everyone can get universal income that supports life - meaning jobs either have to pay you to put up with the literal shit or people can walk away from them without becoming homeless.
Our entire system is basically based on people being so afraid of homelessness and starvation that they’ll accept any shit job for shit pay.
Pay attention to how the media covers public health spending vs. military spending
For an easy comparison, $738B is $738,000,000,000 written the long way.
