I mean this less poetically than that title might make it seem (high btw so post may suck generally)

Maybe this is just a me problem for one of potentially several reasons (autistic and generally inexperienced in life) but I've realized that I had basically assumed an extremely simplified kind of capitalism ran everything, ignoring the human layer through which it operates. Like, obviously it provides the incentives to do shitty things, and everything produced under capitalism is therefore influenced/tainted by it in infinite ways both seen and unseen, but. Some people would still be assholes under socialism probably. Sometimes the relationship of a team results in a creative product that can't easily be reproduced without them. IDK. It's not Just Money in the real world, even if that's an undeniable influence

Also like. This is more likely inexperience/splitting on my part, but not having a job for 2 years while also brain poisoning myself here with you guys and through breadtube and a bit of actual theory and shit, I came into my current "job" as an amazon driver far more cynically than maybe I should have been. Like, obviously the owners of the contracted company I actually work for are greedy profiteering assholes whose only motives for treating their workers humanely is so that they don't quit faster than they can be replaced, but that doesn't mean every kind word isn't

im losing my own thread here nvm. hope you got some value from reading this IG

  • DaKryptoGoblin [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    I just tried working 60 hours to get time and a half overtime in an Amazon FC and they cut me off at 59 hours cuz they didnt want me going over :shrug-outta-hecks:

    I get paid $15.50 an hour and I dont get a raise for 2 years. Amazon WANTS warehouse workers to quit so turnover is high. They want the opposite for contracted drivers, to keep out a union. So I disagree, as a Marxist, because something isnt cynical if its right :marx-joker:

    I agree tho that not having a job and spending all your time here will make you a goblin with some odd views for less online people or even leftists. Work can be good at teaching you how to read a room

      • DaKryptoGoblin [comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        Me and a few coworkers have discussed it, everyone I talk to is pretty pro-union.

        But thats neither here nor there, I'm doing my part and I STRONGLY encourage anyone looking for a new job to get on at an Amazon warehouse. Do it and be a cool leftist