@AnarchistArt "the boss needs you, you don't need them"
that depends on how many bossless workplaces and opportunities for non-labour productivity there are. the less governable workplaces are, the less people are dependent on bosses.
how does that happen? though people changing their behaviour at work. circumvent chains of command, maximize structures of negotiation, within and towards the outside.
build the #counterEconomy at work.
"should we automate all jobs, even the fulfilling ones?"
how about you let people choose what activities we find fulfilling and automate what they want? they would probably choose to automate the least pleasurable things first.
and if there is a desire, than this is a thing to be negotiated with the customer, with money or otherwise.
i think people would already have much more pleasuable and meaningful jobs if they had more control over them…
i think did talk about the economic case often enough: rent seeking, central planning, collusion with government, yada yada.
but control by bosses also means that exchange is mediated by impersonal systems of control and value extraction to the extent that the process of of market cooperation becomes obscured, or even outright absent (bullshit jobs, overconsumption)
Capitalism Strikes Back. This movie sucks.
#BigTech #Bossism #Billionaires: "Every single executive I have criticized in the last year has shown the remarkable belief that they are not subject to the rules of reality that you and I face. This is in part because they’ve been able to escape abiding by said rules through unimaginable wealth and the power that it grants you, but also because such greed may be impossible to acquire without hubris.
They always believe that they alone are worthy. They never have a backup plan, because they have always prided themselves on “being good when the going gets tough.”
Yet they will always be deeply vulnerable to their own failures. They will always make mistakes, because they don’t believe they’ve ever made one. And when they start losing, they lack the capability to stop the world from falling down around them, because that starts at a point of introspection they’ve never had to reach.
As the world turns on these wretched charlatans, take pride in every time you’ve seen them for who they are. Take pride in not accepting the terms of prestige that the rich and powerful demand just for existing. Take pride in fighting for causes that support workers’ rights, diversity and fairness."
When someone is suppressed, restrained or otherwise pushed into a corner, the aggressor tends to assume unlimited power. The feeling of isolation and power imbalance gives the oppressor a form of momentum - as long as they can control the rules of the system, they are unstoppable, able to bend and crack someone to their will, even as onlookers attempt to intervene.
The weather changes in the tech industry is not about economics; it's politics. Burnhamites want absolute fealty.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/16/technology/elon-musk-management-style.html
I sometimes ask myself why companies, even technology-based ones, fall for proprietary techologies (DIrectX and CUDA come to mind). look at how many are "industry standard". Like they sell software themselves, "clearly they realize that copyright is a dependency-building scam, right?". but i don't think they do. it shows just how much bosses are central planners instead of market actors. the more privilege they have, they less they actually need to make rational decisions.
strike is only the most basic form to appropriating the company. next steps may include:
* actually owning the means of production (BYOD, homeoffice, ...)
* getting rid of bossist backdoors in those devices (key escrow, admin stuff)
* secure communication to co-workers and customers
* bottom-up coordination of production processes
* collaborative tools for planning, policymaking and arbitration outside of bossist control
sofia ☮️🏴
che chou 
jan
Miguel Afonso Caetano
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