queermunist she/her

People use Archive links to avoid giving sites traffic.

This is a problem for advertisers and media corps.

Not saying they’re the ones doing this, but they’d definitely benefit.

I don’t like change! 😣

I only use the computer for word processing, internet, and playing roguelikes.

Fine. I guess I’ll learn Linux 😒

You don’t work with people, not really. You manage them. Your job is to strategically use them for maximum productivity; workers might be allowed some small amount of input but only as long as it can be fit within your “roadmap strategy”. Your job it to discipline the workers and keep them on task. And, of course, make sure they never unionize.

These problems are structural. I don’t care what your motivations are, your class position is as an underling enforcer for the boss and you’re bourgeoisified by your position within the class structure. A manager, within this specific class structure, has every incentive to be an enemy of the workers. An individual manager can choose to become a class traitor, and people in management can be extremely powerful union organizers! But it rarely happens because it requires they betray their own class interests. It’s structural.

I’m not opposed to hierarchical organizational structures?

Under capitalism, the job of every single manager is to extract as much surplus value from the workers as possible. That’s their actual economic function. The problem isn’t the organizational model, the problem is the larger economic system they exist within.

If you had some kind of horizontal non-hierarchical collective under capitalism all that could do is turn everyone inside of it into petite-managers and force them to exploit themselves in order to hit productivity quotas. Or, more likely, it would fail because people don’t want to do that shit to themselves and need to be used and abused by a manager to make capitalism function.

The people managers are identified as the ones that can control and discipline the workforce to maximize their exploitation.

Whether they’re nice about it or they just really like their job as a slave driver doesn’t really change what their job is. Their job is to be the enforcers for upper management and this grants them a different class position.

I have some sympathy for people who have completely internalized the logic of capitalism and don’t even realize the role they play in our own oppression, but that sympathy only goes so far. After a certain point all I have left is contempt. They’re bourgeoisified by their position within the labor force, in my view it doesn’t matter what their intent is. In reality, many of them are just doing their jobs and they aren’t ruthless climber psychopaths. The problem is that their jobs are inherently tied into a broader system of capitalist oppression.

I work for a living honey. My knowledge is derived from dealing with them.

Managers at every level exist to protect the boss’s wealth and extract the surplus value we create with our labor. They’re slave drivers for the wage slaves.

News flash: managers at every level also think of themselves as victims and they always pass that on down the chain of command. Upper management gets screamed at by senior management, then they scream at middle management, and then the people on the ground get screamed at. Shit rolls down hill. They aren’t always looking to get promoted all the way to the top, but every single one of them wants to be promoted higher than the rest of us so they can get a little more of the surplus value we generate.

If their job as middle management is so fucking hard how about they give it up? Accept a demotion and rejoin us on the floor. No one has to be middle management.

They’re fucking climbers. Every middle manager takes the job because they want to be upper management someday. Zero sympathy.

I’m pretty fucking sure you still have to apply to become a middle manager. You don’t just evolve like a Pokemon.

They voluntarily became the manager’s gofers because they’re disgusting climbers and they get what they deserve. 🙂

Middle management deserves it.

A comforting lie.

The IMF loots countries that take loans and in contrast China forgives loans. The reason Africa is aligning more with China is because they’re getting a better deal. If they really were just the same as the West then China wouldn’t be winning the continent.

We exploit Africa. China has begun to take up Western marketshare in Africa because they’re less exploitative and offer a better deal.

It’s worse. For example, this war has been the deadliest for journalists in modern history, and by proportion of people killed maybe even the deadliest ever. They don’t just target them in their homes, they target the families of journalists too. This is something new.

Israel’s “Gospel” has shown us where this leads.

(it leads to civilian casualties and war crimes)

That’s all we’re worth, huh?

🙄 All the US is doing is bifurcating the global economy. China will just do business elsewhere.

Am I really supposed to believe that there is zero interest on the part of the US government and US businesses to keep us divided? It’s allllll a foreign psyop? Come on.

Neat.

How heavy are they?