"we need to open our eyes to the fact that the current industry many of us work in, not only doesn’t care about their workers, it actively resents them. In their eyes, we have gone from being the people who made things possible, to an unnecessary burden on the bottom line.

They hate that we charge money for our labor, and see that money as something we are stealing from their pockets."

(Original title: How to grow strawberries)

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How to grow strawberries

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@tante "They hate that we charge money for our labor"
I also have a feeling, they secretly hate the people who have actual skills they don't, because they will likely never acquire them or even think it's just pretending to have valuable skills.

@h0ru2 @tante
I think one of the most pernicious things is that they don't even have to hate it. Hate feels bad to most people, so we built a system that abstracts mean decisions into a million pieces that no one has to fully feel, most of all the shareholders, who can, for the most part, make money without even thinking of how what they "own" works for even a moment.

Changing the system would be easier if people actually had to maintain a head full of hate to benefit from the system. They don't.