This is one step away from "slavery is actually good for us because we don't know how to run our lives without kind master".
I mean white people could have done more after freeing enslaved people but ... yeah. Most insidious part of slavery/racism in the US is how entrenched the dynamics are in our own heads. It takes a lot of work to break out of that and if you don't have a lot of good visible examples then you can easily get stuck in it.
they should read Eric Foner's Reconstruction or watch Matt's series of videos discussing it
The only helpful instructions would have been: “take this free land you deserve.”
from an idealistic, liberal mindset this makes a lot of sense. obviously the actual good idea would've been giving former enslaved people property and other material means to have a dignified life, education, etc.
the white man not giving the slaves direct instructions on what to do after they were freed to be successful
Literally what Jim Crow was for.
Just a legion of plantation owners screaming "Get back in line!"
In a better timeline that quote could have been the opening to a conversation on systemic racism. But no, we have to do exploitation apologia coated in a thin layer of empty identity politics instead.
"For generations, African American communities have been shut out from the economic opportunities available to white communities, forcing them into less secure and stable livelihoods that don't provide the advantages of a steady job with guaranteed benefits, and this is good actually."
This shit is only get more intense. Uber drivers won an important case to move towards proper benefits and being classed as employees recently. Deliveroo drivers are striking too at the moment and knocked £3bn of Deliveroo's IPO this week. But on the flip side the proposed anti-protest bill here in the UK is also very clearly designed to make any kind of picket illegal.
Keep an eye out for company unions, that seems like a probable next step for the ruling class to take. "Oh, everything is fine now. You're part of a union that's firmly beneath our thumb, and you get a 70 cent raise every 5 years!"
I've considered this in the past, but the more I see how out of touch and completely unhinged the capitalist class has become the less I believe they'd actually go for it.
Apparently critiquing the gig economy makes you a class reductionist and you are now cancelled
I'm seeing DoorDash ads (and similar services) all the time recently. I don't look them up, I don't do anything that should give me those ads. So much of it is targeted like this too. It's so gross.
Post the link, fascist
https://www.lohud.com/story/opinion/2021/02/04/dont-stifle-independent-work-model-gig-economy-jobs-people-color/4373207001/
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Gannett corp propaganda
Yes, independent app-based workers deserve benefits, and of course they should have protections. But taking away their abilities to choose their own schedules and be their own bosses adds no value to their lives or livelihoods. It goes against the very reasons they take on these lines of work in the first place and it removes a sense of dignity that the traditional economy has never adequately afforded Black and Brown workers to begin with. Surveys show workers themselves don’t even want to be employees. So why are so many others trying to force this on them?
Hey I've got some surveys you should read: :gui-better:
“Generations” holy fucking shit how could you say that with a straight face, the gig economy has only been a thing for like 5 years
Precarity and piecework were fairly common in the 19th century, I'd say the only difference bow is that it's automated and dressed up as "being your own boss"
