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Yawn. This subject has been discussed ad nauseum. The lines are drawn. I'm over it.

I think for some businesses, it's reasonable to make hay while the sun shines.

> “That’s bullshit and loser thinking. Of course it’s possible to be fast and secure,” Yen wrote in the channel at the end of August.

What a jerk. I agree that security doesn't have to be given time—like all software, implementation takes the time it takes.

But he doesn't have to be such an asshole about it. In my book, there's nothing more representative of "loser thinking" than casting petulant aspersions like "loser thinking."

> 3: Michael Nygard commented: “There you really aren't trying to communicate thoughts from one person to other people. You're communicating with a process rather than a human. A human may open the envelope but that person is acting as a component in a cybernetic organism.”

But of course: manufactuting itself creates " productive mechanism whose parts are human beings, as Adam Ferguson describes the industrial workshop: "an engine, the parts of which are men".

Can't we ask on behalf of one another?

I guess I view a general strike as the inevitable precipitation of labor organizing critical mass.

And I also think of it as pretty esoteric to the mainstream, TBH.

You're right—happiness is meaningful, and the pursuit of eudaimonia may well be the most moral act.

Can you truly be happy while billions suffer unnecessarily?

Labor organizing?

Calvinist "work ethic" is a problematic doctrine, but it's still more moral than a structurally oppressive synecure.

You're comfortably ensconced within a powerful economic inequality machine, and you're fighting for your right... to party? It's a bit gauche.

At least I tell myself I'm keeping the lights on for many families.

Major state interventions that altered labor supply or rebalanced wealth (eg such as standardizing the 8-hour workday, establishing public pensions, or funding universal education) were won through waves of union mobilization and working-class political pressure.

It's not one or the other. Unionization is literally (figuratively) the hand that pulls those levers.

Why don't we enforce labor laws? Why is it legally permitted to do business with slavers?

Yeah, buddy. The structural collapse of workplace sociability is just one facet of the overall dismantling of long-term relational social contracts in favor of contingent, hyper-mobile labor arrangements.

In-person, copresent time spent with friends has _also_ collapsed by roughly 60% over the last two decades. The social fabric of our civilization is thinning out!

Have you seen _The Matrix_? That's pretty much where this is all headed: total corporate mediation of human experience and relationships. You are forced to passively contemplate as an audience member the very concepts of joy and creative agency that oyr current economic architecture denies you from living.

Your nostalgia is valid; you're being cheated! Swindled! Thieved blind!

Dense, multi-stranded local networks and informal support structures are an obstacle to the Capitalist imperative to enclose every non-monetized "commons" and turn every facet of human life into an immediate site of market extraction.

The only solution is engaging neighbors and co-workers in direct conversations to name our concrete, everyday grievances.

Directly! And not on moderated forums like these, where powerful techno-elitists can continue the project of mediating our reality. (Hi, Tom!)