https://truthout.org/articles/more-us-employers-are-trapping-workers-in-a-new-form-of-indentured-servitude/
This makes Sorry To Bother You look subtle Jesus Christ
that can't be what it's really called
there's no fucking way they're that on the nose
surely
https://truthout.org/articles/more-us-employers-are-trapping-workers-in-a-new-form-of-indentured-servitude/
have you ever met a corporate lawyer? they actually have a surprisingly dark sense of humor
If they can spin it as "good business sense", they absolutely will flaunt how unscrupulous and amoral they are.
TRAPs is a term that was coined by the student borrower protection centre, which this article cites, not a term coined by the corporates
because every American is a hyperindividual consumer, public space has been eliminated, and any non-market-based social formations have been squeezed out of existence
Not enough people have realized others are also being screwed yet. They keep us isolated as possible.
Effective propaganda, poor education, and selective proletarianization forced mostly onto various minoritized underclasses whose radicalism can be violently out down without the rest of the population caring.
But good news! Proletarianization is coming for everyone. But bad news! A lack of a left means it will have a fashy outcome by default! But good news! :xi-plz:
No Maoist insurgency because no Mao. Who is taking the Long March into the hinterlands of Middle America in order to build a people's army in opposition? glances around askance
I agree people should be in revolt. But at some level they have to be able to see one another and organize amongst their peers, ideally under a set of materialist views that lead to better lives. The American opposition has vanishingly little leadership outside of the corporate and criminal worlds.
The other day I felt myself waiver when giving a full-throated defense of communism. I can only go hours without being reminded of the horrors of capitalism
I worked for a nursing home that would fund your $20k LPN degree. You'd then be hired at $18/hr under a two year contract. $18/hr is a fast food wage here. Quit during that, and staff turnover averaged a few months, BAM. Full bill for the degree.
That's a good scam. I spent like 30k going to community college to get my RN, I get paid 35/hr for doing the exact same job as the LPNs at the LTC I work at. Only difference is that I can declare deaths.
for anyone else who didnt dive into the article or the links within, TRAPs is a term that was coined by the student borrower protection centre, which this article cites, not a term coined by the corporates
its a fucking apt term, but its not some official jargon
If someone were to sign up and just not pay this fucking bullshit, what is the worst that could happen? Probably jail time, given we live in hell?
They'd probably
dock your social credit scorereport the debt to a credit reporting agency, (further?) ruining your credit and directing (even more?) endless calls from debt collectors your way.
the training: 4-5 hours of an overworked employee who REALLY doesn't want to deal with you, or people in general, hurriedly explaining things
your former employer: yeah that cost us a thousand dollars, pay up
