Murais

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

Sunfish.

They are enormous wastes of flesh and evolutionary effort.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I guess that makes me number 3?

The ending was a bit silly, but the Qunari storyline was fucking incredible.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

I didn't know electrical equipment could be vampires.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 119 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

It's almost like the culture war is completely manufactured and the people perpetuating it don't actually give a shit because they're just playing the grift for their own benefit.

Remember kids, the only solidarity is class solidarity and rich people understand that better than you.

EDIT: Autocorrect butchered my spelling.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

My dude, if you can only imagine one system of social organization as being correct or successful, I don't think it's my intellect you need to concern yourself with.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I never implied a necessary return to subsistence farming. I said that hierarchy is not necessary for society to exist, but you continue to equate the two.

Mayans didn't build highways, because the technology and the necessity were not present. But they did build roads. And bridges. And pressurized aqueducts. And they did it without an "Assistant Director of Construction."

Y'know. Infrastructure. With limited hierarchy.

Saying that human civilization and the necessary infrastructure to support it is impossible without traditional corporate hierarchy isn't just wrong, it's fucking propaganda. And it's propaganda designed specifically to depress the value of labor.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

No hierarchy doesn't mean the same as no infrastructure and never has.

It's a commonly repeated lie to equate them as meaning the same thing.

EDIT: Middle management is also a phenomenon of the Industrial Era. Prior to industrialization, humanity (and jobs) existed for thousands of years.

According to some here, that is impossible.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 years ago (1 children)

But in all seriousness, think of strikes and the inherent power of labor.

How come management never strikes?

When workers strike and there are no workers in the building, the day comes to a screeching halt and NOTHING happens.

If there are no managers in the building, business continues as usual. Because it happens all of the fucking time. That's why your manager can go on vacation for weeks at a time and nobody gives a shit, but you're lucky if you get 5 days in a whole calendar year.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (7 children)

Yes. What ever did humanity do for work before the invention of middle management?

It must have been chaos. Bedlam, even!

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 years ago (14 children)

As long as you commodify my labor, it has value.

Whose labor generates more value? The worker, who creates the product being sold to generate profit, or the boss who manages them?

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