“How does your captain treat you?”

This is the key question that crew asked when boarding a ship in the third age of Piracy.

https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e103-pirates/

This episode of WCH talks about that ritual question. For union members, the “voting on everything” bit might sound familiar, and we also have “quartermasters” whom we call auditors. See our statutes:

https://ictunion.cz/en/statutes/

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‘I didn’t eat or sleep’: a Meta moderator on his breakdown after seeing beheadings and child abuse

Solomon says the scale and depravity of what he was exposed to was far darker than he had ever imagined

Meta faces Ghana lawsuits over impact of extreme content on moderators

#meta #workersrights #workerExpoitation #extremism #laborrights #africa #contentmoderation #ptsd #mentalhealth

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/apr/27/meta-moderator-on-the-cost-of-viewing-beheadings-child-abuse-and-suicide

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We agree on the premises of 2 and 3 but we doubt the efficacy of 1, given that #workerCoaxing and #workerExpoitation are still rife.

#migrantExploitation #wageSlavery #confidenceTrickery #tysonfoods #businessRoundtable #abattoirWorkers #meatConsumption #propertyCouncil #growthPushers #slums #sanFrancisco #losangeles #homelessness #urbanSprawl #gentrification #debtSlavery #overdevelopment #drugwar #racketeering