I mean another way to put it is that she spends 20hrs a week moderating reddit. Should someone who does that be representative of any working class movement no matter what demographics make it up? Is anyone here under the impression that moderating reddit is some kind of road to organizing anything? If that 20 hours was spent trying to unionize other dogwalkers or volunteering in some org, sure. 20 hours a week of posting memes like "my boss said I have to push their bently all the way to work and then lick the wheels clean. then wouldn't give me overtime. i'm so done with working" doesn't do anything.
I guess it does do something though. It gets enough attention from the media so that they interview the founder. A person that has no real specific critiques of the system other than it's not fair and no goals other than "I don't want to work anymore." I think people are getting caught up on the argument over what jobs are valid as hardwork rather than focusing on the part where IT'S A REDDIT MOD. THE SITE WE PURPOSEFULLY LEFT BECAUSE THEY'RE ALL LIBS WHO DON'T TOLERATE US. I FEEL LIKE I'M TAKING CRAZY PILLS.
See that part is what I'm totally on board with. But the meme from OP and Reddit is about the argument as to which jobs are/aren't valid and I think that we need to have a broad vision of work to truly make this change. Is she the right representative? Hell no. Is her work valid? Maybe not the moderating, but the dog walking definitely is work.
I mean another way to put it is that she spends 20hrs a week moderating reddit. Should someone who does that be representative of any working class movement no matter what demographics make it up? Is anyone here under the impression that moderating reddit is some kind of road to organizing anything? If that 20 hours was spent trying to unionize other dogwalkers or volunteering in some org, sure. 20 hours a week of posting memes like "my boss said I have to push their bently all the way to work and then lick the wheels clean. then wouldn't give me overtime. i'm so done with working" doesn't do anything.
I guess it does do something though. It gets enough attention from the media so that they interview the founder. A person that has no real specific critiques of the system other than it's not fair and no goals other than "I don't want to work anymore." I think people are getting caught up on the argument over what jobs are valid as hardwork rather than focusing on the part where IT'S A REDDIT MOD. THE SITE WE PURPOSEFULLY LEFT BECAUSE THEY'RE ALL LIBS WHO DON'T TOLERATE US. I FEEL LIKE I'M TAKING CRAZY PILLS.
See that part is what I'm totally on board with. But the meme from OP and Reddit is about the argument as to which jobs are/aren't valid and I think that we need to have a broad vision of work to truly make this change. Is she the right representative? Hell no. Is her work valid? Maybe not the moderating, but the dog walking definitely is work.