Laws protect business, not workers.

It will be interesting to watch their business model working without any workers working.

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.

I read a study arguing that each time someone utters the letters U, B, and I, currency devalues itself by one thousand fold, chunks of the sky rain down on metropolitan centers, and everyone instantly becomes fat, lazy, and uninterested in any activities except playing video games.

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.

I suppose he must be very frugal with household expenses.

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.

Israel itself is drenched in a culture of racist anti-Palestinian tropes, and denial of the ethnic cleansing called the Nakba.

The crimes of the Third Reich are invoked disingenuously to construct a counterfactual demonization of the Palestinian people.

Meanwhile, Jews in the West are often antagonized in their communities and families if they challenge the prevailing dogma.

There is a soft but tragic irony, that many liberal Jews feel free to approach their religious heritage critically and skeptically, but any who question political doctrine are greeted as heretics.

A strike can last much longer if workers are not worried about their bread and roof.

Even without organization, a secure worker can bargain harder for higher wages and better conditions.

The youngest age cohort is currently the only with any broad class consciousness.

Older generations, the ones that endured the depression and fought the two wars on either side, were fiercely class conscious, entirely aware that the wealth of society that they were generating was being stolen by the greedy parasitic class of owners.

Ten, twenty, or thirty years ago, it was common, after finishing school, for someone enthusiastically to sell the entirety of one's being, body, mind, and all, to the corporate masters, imagining such enthusiasm as making oneself superior to peers, providing a guarantee to outpace all of them in the promotions and purchases that would mark the milestones of life.

The lies and mythology by now have become too obvious not to notice by anyone not already traumatized by the severest indoctrination and self delusion.

The system is unfair and unstable. Some workers trample other workers, only that we all may be trampled by our rulers, gratefully of course.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

All money is free. It is not taken from some limited store, but rather created by government, freely.

The value, stability, and legitimacy of money is sustained by the supremacy of state power. By such power, the government both determines the supply and shapes the distribution of money, and is assured never to be insolvent.

No distribution of money is natural or naturally superior.

Money is a social construct directed by political will.

Price inflation currently occurring is largely due to the political choice to distribute money to corporations.

That is, as a consequence of particular political choices, the already imbalanced distribution has become even more unfavorable toward workers.

If the political will were rather toward distributing money to workers, then prices may follow a pattern of gradual inflation, but as long as workers' income keeps pace, workers would not be harmed by it even in the slightly.

The claim of UBI leading to runaway inflation is a myth given by reactionary propaganda.

UBI would represent a major advance for the working class. Advocating against it seems impossible to reconcile with any attitude that is not accelerationist.

Much of your commentary seems to reproduce mythical tropes such as of the "welfare queen".

Seeking meaningful contribution to society is a robust human tendency. Doing so under constant threat from greedy employers is not necessary.

By some measures, Musk's decisions managing Twitter/X should earn him one million lifetimes of homelessness.

I know no one personally who would remain secure after losing billions of dollars, yet I keep hearing that owners take all the risks and workers are always protected from hardship.