Post AFjg2Q0FLRawcUNSZk by waterbear@scicomm.xyz
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(DIR) Post #AFiSzFQMj7cQNanBMe by Anarkat@hackers.town
2022-01-22T23:42:17Z
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Anyone who's been paying attention to how laws affect people may already know that slavery is de facto legalized through the prison system.Well, slavery in the general non-incarcerated population is making a comeback!https://www.postcrescent.com/story/news/2022/01/21/what-we-know-ascension-thedacare-court-battle-over-employees/6607417001/Summary: 7 healthcare workers left a hospital to take a better job offer from a different hospital.Instead of paying them more, or providing any other tangible benefit to these workers, the hospital that they were leaving sued in court for an injunction barring the workers who quit from starting work at the new hospital until their positions at the old hospital had been filled.Let me spell that out.A hospital employing at-will workers sued to prevent them from working elsewhere, and was successful.And now, BNSF is suing in court to prevent their workers from going on strike, arguing that the economic damage would be too severe to allow it.Put another way.BNSF is suing in federal court to compel their workers to continue working. This is slavery.This is the beginning. This isn't a fucking "slippery slope" that "might lead to slavery" this is literally corporations suing in court to be permitted to impose slavery on their workers, and succeeding.What is our court system for?What the fuck is any of this for?
(DIR) Post #AFiSzGeEB4IkAsHlbs by Anarkat@hackers.town
2022-01-22T23:44:05Z
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I'm not exaggerating when I say that the corporatocracy that we live in is imposing literal actual slavery on workers.gaslighting them and forcing them into poverty didn't work.Calling them "heroes" didn't work.All that's left is the court system, forcing them to work under penalty of retribution from the injustice system.
(DIR) Post #AFiSzHr1gy8JurHVCK by Anarkat@hackers.town
2022-01-22T23:56:48Z
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If our whole system would collapse if corporations aren't allowed to force people into slavery, then maybe it should collapse.If our society can only keep going through the enslavement and blood of its workers.Release the workers and let it burn.What is any of this cheap plastic bullshit for? What are we doing any of this for?Look around you. What is it that we're living for? At what cost? This isn't just an abstraction. This isn't just "some people get hurt to provide the resources for our society, but that doesn't matter because I can't see it"This is literally, actually, we are being enslaved to feed the machine that will grind our bones into dust for fuel.The abusive system that we live within is seeing that people are choosing to leave that system, to free themselves from the abuse.And the people who control the abusive system has determined that the solution isn't to exist in a form that isn't abusive, and isn't miserable to be a part of.The bosses, the rulers, the corporatists have determined that the thing that should be done to resolve the problem of people leaving the abusive system is to not let people leave."At-will employment" became the standard for employment because it allowed employers to exert disproportionate control, in not providing any stability for the worker, while allowing the employer to exert control over the workers' lives, by paying starvation wages.The bosses, the corporations, the employers, the rulers, they're realizing that the freedom to leave was too much freedom.Now they want it all. They want to pay starvation wages, and they want to ensure that the workers that they're paying starvation wages to aren't allowed to seek work anywhere else. They're intent to force their workers into literal, actual slavery. Compelling the workers to work, with no choice otherwise.
(DIR) Post #AFiSzJ5x4xfNlRGw6K by Anarkat@hackers.town
2022-01-23T00:48:08Z
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Corporations are, right now using the legal system to compel employees to work, AKA forced labor, AKA slavery.
(DIR) Post #AFiU5119IsCdODJNRY by Moon@shitposter.club
2022-01-23T01:28:38.202374Z
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@Anarkat people are dying anarkat
(DIR) Post #AFiUIdSdgPgMNsfFT6 by neo@pl.comfysnug.space
2022-01-23T01:31:06.240540Z
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@MoonOf course people are being compelled to go work lolCompanies are so shit they can't make money unless the labor cost is 0@Anarkat
(DIR) Post #AFiW4dtNTzOZZlcu00 by Seirdy@pleroma.envs.net
2022-01-23T01:50:58.348079Z
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@Anarkat w-were they at least paid?
(DIR) Post #AFjBPdYU1jqWjTz076 by Anarkat@hackers.town
2022-01-23T04:26:58Z
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Later when I've gotten some rest and some time to think, I'll write up an essay diving deeper into why I am calling out this corporate behavior as slavery specifically, rather than saying it's close to slavery.In short, it's because workers have no choice but to work for someone because we live in a society. Barring workers from seeking work elsewhere means declaring they have the freedom to starve, or work for the company who has successfully sued to retain them. This is, clearly, no choice at all.
(DIR) Post #AFjXLcR8RRqJ642EZU by clacke@libranet.de
2022-01-23T07:04:27Z
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Should we have a draft for medical services?
(DIR) Post #AFjXLctqigoMX7TAKO by Anarkat@hackers.town
2022-01-23T07:11:46Z
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@clacke If the government wants to compel people to work in hospitals, every state has a medical division of their national guard/reserves, who have specifically agreed to be compelled to work for indeterminate periods in exchange for specific benefits, and who can be called up to fill critical service shortages in hospitals.Also @Moon@shitposter.club lol instance mute I don't have to give a shit about your shitty opinions being on my dashboard.
(DIR) Post #AFjXLdQSlQtoAGjDA8 by Moon@shitposter.club
2022-01-23T13:39:56.532409Z
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@Anarkat @clacke every single post you have is shitty, I reply to them so other people see them to laugh at you. I actually agree with you this time, you're just such a shitty anarchist it's funny. I almost never see good posts come from your entire server. my server has an excuse.
(DIR) Post #AFjg2Q0FLRawcUNSZk by waterbear@scicomm.xyz
2022-01-23T02:37:19Z
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@Anarkat are the workers able to quit though?
(DIR) Post #AFjg2QWVPVOoEXTDrE by waterbear@scicomm.xyz
2022-01-23T02:40:03Z
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@Anarkat to me, it looks like extra-fucked wage slavery, but not actual slavery slavery, since the workers technically have an out besides prison, which is quitting.Don't get me wrong, I am 1000% against this and it's a worrying development, but I don't think I could call it slavery. It would weaken the meaning of that word
(DIR) Post #AFkHqEMrfAEdc5X2NU by ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org
2022-01-23T22:20:54Z
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@Anarkat 2 words for you: Direct Action. In other words: show up for work, but start sabotaging it.- Demand excruciatingly detailed description of the work to be done.- Slack off at work. Take long lunch breaks., coffee breaks, Arrive on time and leave precisely on time. No overtime ever.- Take as long as possible to complete even simple tasks. Always mention that you do not have enough material to complete the task. Etc...
(DIR) Post #AFnvdg09ByMRZ4zxUO by feonixrift@hackers.town
2022-01-25T16:27:22Z
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@AnarkatIt's a stinking ironic mess, given that most people will joyously work ridiculously much to the point where you have to remind them to stop, on building a better world, if their basic needs are just met without exhausting them utterly. Ah but who would want that...
(DIR) Post #AFnvdgVLJzJZ7pas76 by ringo@dobbs.town
2022-01-25T16:30:58Z
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@feonixrift @Anarkat ::blink:: yeah, um i really hope this country isnt headed where it appears to be headed. very very bad places. for nearly everyone.wishing you two well on this morning. with a side of coffee and jazz music.