Hatred often makes you want to hurt people, but people hurt peope in the name of greed more often, and not only with less potential for guilt, but is often the cause of delusional accolades and reassurance both from within oneself and from others.
Hypothetical:
A CEO lays off 10,000 employees that helped that company succeed, solely to increase earnings and not because the company is hurting, not only seriously hurting 9,997 people, but causing 3 to commit suicide.
A bumpkin gets in a fight with someone he hates the melanin of because he’s a moron and kills them.
Who did more damage to humanity that day? They’re both, I want to say evil but evil is subjective, they’re both highly antisocial, knowingly harmful behaviors, yet one correctly sends you to prison for a long time if not forever, while the other, far more premeditated and quite literally calculated act, is literally rewarded and partied about. Jim Kramer gives you a shout out on tv, good fucking times amirite!
Edit: and this felt relevant to post after someone tried to lecture me about equating layoffs to murder.
“Coca-Cola killed trade unionists in Latin America. General Motors built vehicles known to catch fire. Tobacco companies suppressed cancer research. And Boeing knew that its planes were dangerous. Corporations don’t care if they kill people — as long as it’s profitable.”
https://jacobin.com/2020/01/corporations-profit-values-murder-culture-boeing
“discentivise productivity.”
This right here. The jargon they use to rationalize cruelty. “growth or die” capitalism says, yet that same growth/metastasis capitalism demands is ironically choking the human race right now.
Growth is destroying our habitat. What we need is equilibrium.
Is the sustainable packaging company I work for, which is doubling in size every 3 years, “choking the human race?”
This is a silly mindset, man.
Im not on the “I hate capitalism train”. However yeah I understand workplace relations between employee and employer overall is in the toilet.
As of now, the best solution I can come up with is refusing to work for morons. The more that do this, the harder it will be for morons to find staff and run their operations.
Refusing to work for morons will have you choosing between the “good” corporations that just get by with a little tax evasion, wage theft, and waste.
And the “effective” corporations that will do anything to corner the market. Including suffocating / buying the “good companies”.
It’s a race to the bottom.
I am sure there are other options out there than just those two.
Even if that is the case, quit working for someone and start your own business.
I’m sure your mom and pop outfit will compete very effectively against megacorps that own the marketplaces, advertising outlets, and regulatory framework, hell I’m sure it’s a walk in the park to operate at a loss for decades while their lawyers peel back every transaction you process to find the smallest irregularities.
And that’s just assuming they don’t send a goonsquad to burn you and your place.
Stay poor then. No one will force you to join society. Go start a commune
Lol it would be difficult for me to stay poor. But great argument, very stirring, really refuted my points and added a lot to think about.
Even if your parents fund the commune, you can still live as a poor person.
Aww that’s precious.
Hey maybe develop a personality?
It will make you less reactionary when people threaten the status qoe, or at least give you some more interesting sentences to repeat to strangers.
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Yes I have heard of the dunning-kreuger effect. If your employer is a moron, go find another employer to work with that is a capitable at being an employer.