:codec-otacon: Sadly yes. Corporations under the Patriots have spent the last 50 years dismantling unions across the country through outsourcing. By the early 21st century they have consolidated their holdings through M&A under private equity.
:codec-snake: M&A? You mean Mergers and Acquisitions?
:codec-otacon: Yes, and not just at the grocery store. A handful of companies control over 90% of all media and growing, allowing them to slowly convince Americans to accept the Patriot’s changes over time. Arsenal Gear was an early attempt to control narrative by controlling memes. After it’s destruction the Patriots changed tactics to memetic cultivation through Parasocial Relationships. Today with the Internet Surveillance they have a far more granular control to manipulate individuals with Algorithms.
You ever see that really stupid Baki scene where Baki is surrounded by like five guards pointing guns at him but he’s supposed to be the one in charge and actually has them (the people pointing guns at him at point blank range) hostage?
This is that but real; convincing workers to have a temporary union and pretending they’re having their arms twisted to make small, meaningless concessions so the workers don’t unionize for real and force major concessions; and this as a temporary measure to give them breathing room to figure out how to replace or downsize them.
Given where it was posted, this is probably one of those tech bros that grew up thinking that having some comp sci skills means immunity from labor market pressures.
My favourite part about this is that IT is quite literally the worst market when it comes to unionisation in America since corpos will move the operation overseas within a week with zero pushback. IT employees let this happen without any sort of opposition because they were paid high for a decade or so.
I’ve seen a lot of capitalism loving neolibs suddenly embracing the idea what we’re currently under isn’t REAL capitalism because wealth has gotten too accumulated and as created an anti-competition oligarchy.
Which like, yeah, but yah know someone predicted this would happen.
It’s especially funny when those same neoliberals have been basking in glory since 1990 when their system “won” and they thought all they had to do was tinker around the edges. One Washington Consensus president after another, and within a generation, we’ve entered The Gilded Age 2. You can’t claim “Not Real Capitalism,” my brother in Christ, this is the globalized hegemony you wanted! Obama’s legacy is Trump, you really think we can just turn back the dial on this shit?
And what happens when the temporary unionization ends? Why wouldn’t the corpos go straight back to mass layoffs?
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:codec-otacon: Sadly yes. Corporations under the Patriots have spent the last 50 years dismantling unions across the country through outsourcing. By the early 21st century they have consolidated their holdings through M&A under private equity.
:codec-snake: M&A? You mean Mergers and Acquisitions?
:codec-otacon: Yes, and not just at the grocery store. A handful of companies control over 90% of all media and growing, allowing them to slowly convince Americans to accept the Patriot’s changes over time. Arsenal Gear was an early attempt to control narrative by controlling memes. After it’s destruction the Patriots changed tactics to memetic cultivation through Parasocial Relationships. Today with the Internet Surveillance they have a far more granular control to manipulate individuals with Algorithms.
What would it even mean to have a ”temporary union”?
“I got mine!”
The West/Americans can’t conceive of actually sticking to an agreement.
That sounds like some horror created by a neoliberal think tank and heartily endorsed by Pete Buttigieg.
You ever see that really stupid Baki scene where Baki is surrounded by like five guards pointing guns at him but he’s supposed to be the one in charge and actually has them (the people pointing guns at him at point blank range) hostage?
This is that but real; convincing workers to have a temporary union and pretending they’re having their arms twisted to make small, meaningless concessions so the workers don’t unionize for real and force major concessions; and this as a temporary measure to give them breathing room to figure out how to replace or downsize them.
It’s not gonna make sense because this person doesn’t actually know what unions are.
They have a surface understanding of the protections that unions offer to its members, but don’t actually know how or why.
Makes me wonder how they think we got here to begin with
Given where it was posted, this is probably one of those tech bros that grew up thinking that having some comp sci skills means immunity from labor market pressures.
My favourite part about this is that IT is quite literally the worst market when it comes to unionisation in America since corpos will move the operation overseas within a week with zero pushback. IT employees let this happen without any sort of opposition because they were paid high for a decade or so.
They did everything right!
I’ve seen a lot of capitalism loving neolibs suddenly embracing the idea what we’re currently under isn’t REAL capitalism because wealth has gotten too accumulated and as created an anti-competition oligarchy.
Which like, yeah, but yah know someone predicted this would happen.
It’s especially funny when those same neoliberals have been basking in glory since 1990 when their system “won” and they thought all they had to do was tinker around the edges. One Washington Consensus president after another, and within a generation, we’ve entered The Gilded Age 2. You can’t claim “Not Real Capitalism,” my brother in Christ, this is the globalized hegemony you wanted! Obama’s legacy is Trump, you really think we can just turn back the dial on this shit?