Nothing to do but apologize to every person I meet who is not from the US.

Lol I didn’t say I don’t enjoy him from time to time. I think he’s pretty funny. I said for me he breaks immersion. I’m watching Paul Rudd as Ant Man for example, instead of watching ant man.

Black widow was terrible, and Thor 2 was pretty middling. The others I haven’t seen… It all seemed like a cash grab and downhill slide after ant man.

Can’t say I am surprised cap 4 got bad reviews, Anthony Mackie has just not been a show stealer as Sam Wilson. He’s not bad in the role, but he’s always kinda broken the MCU immersion for me by being kinda b-list over the top. Of course… I can (and would) say the same about Paul Rudd.

Yes. Odd people.

I would rock the ragnar lothbrok though.

How do you knock out a fade on your own? The back of the head is a real bitch.

Ah yes, I can see the clear line from “every business does not lend itself to direct democracy” to racism and dehumanization. Though I do appreciate a good ad hominem from time to time.

That whole response rant is crass, alarmist, and most of all specious. Luckily you made my point for me: people (or worker) can simultaneously have value, as you surely do as a person, but have not a fucking clue what they are talking about in some areas. In those areas, asking for your opinion is… well, a clear and obvious mistake.

Have a great time with all those you hold dear and good luck with any directly democratic companies you start. 👍

Using a 1 hour gig worker shows different investment, time contribution, experience, and perspective in a clear way. The 40 hour case shows only differing experience and perspective which is not as cut and dry an example, but still perfectly applicable.

There’s absolutely no reason to be a dick about it.

Reducto ad absurdum for making the clearer version of a point.

Regardless, a full coterie of 40 hour workers STILL may not be full of votes of equal quality for every topic. Representative democracy? Sure why not. Welcome to the concept of a board of directors. Picking general leadership for businesses at scale? Sure why not. General decision making and steering by direct democracy? No thanks.

It makes no sense to equally weight the opinion of your IT team and your marketing department on the next product to launch or who the target audience should be. And I can make as many of that style example as you like without devaluing in any way what it means to be a worker.

Yeah I just don’t agree with you.

There is certainly a broad set of circumstances where businesses can share ownership between employees, but that does not mean there are not other circumstances where work is done purely in exchange for money, benefits, or both.

If you and 4 friends want to start a pizza shop, cool do it democratically. If I do a business selling a product all myself and every other Sunday I pay someone to come lick my stamps for an hour so I can spend time with my kids, that person is not an equal partner.

Edit: to be extra clear, democracy is based on the concept that people are all functionally equals in capability, information, and perspective. Basically that countrymen are homogenous. Inside a specialized enterprise of any kind (especially small ones) this need not be true.

Edit 2: or if that’s insufficient and all businesses must be democratic, then I necessarily must be allowed to hire based on whatever criteria I so choose. Work ethic, want to keep the company aligned with my interests, religion, ability, height, anything. That’s the only way to guarantee a homogeneous pool and may also be the democratic will of the group of people who begin the business.

That video… is lacking. So many words, but no real beginner content IMO. It is heavy on prose and short on examples and their impact. I’m reading over the list provided in the video comments and it is, while still very wordy, much better.

I’m gonna ook you in the dooker!

Why would you expect them to be?

If my family starts a restaurant and hires additional workers to, for example, help clean, bus tables, wait tables, and so on, I think it would be kinda weird to share the decision making between all employees. It makes more sense for employee owned corpos, but most small businesses have an owner or owners whose main job is steering the business.

Seems to me like kind of a long pivot from

Every single bit of progress was led by people doing more, by people standing up, by people applying pressure between election days.

Why not just DO that?

I don’t disagree that the shift in the Overton window is alarmingly far gone, that Dems are out of touch, or that the country is failing in real time. I disagree with the supercilious presentation of “political (in)action” by the people who ought to be easiest to motivate to go raise some hell.

Instead of punching all the way right, you’re doing a big sad to your adjacent right in a huge lefty echo chamber. By letting perfect be the enemy of less worse we are only left with worse, and you still gotta live in it with us.

Then go do something, man.

Sitting around and doing a “noble” nothing is not standing up or doing more. It’s doing EVEN LESS than voting. There is an absolutely real possibility that if everybody stays home it doesn’t shift D left, it just results in nothing besides Republican control.

In that case though you wouldn’t have to worry about voting for palestinian genocide, because it would be over and done with. You could be not voting for climate denial or not voting for something else, posting on Lemmy about how righteous you are, and bottling your own farts to sniff later.

I’m walking, stumping, and repping local elections and voting as far left as I can everywhere else. There is no far far left activity/activism you’re touting anywhere to be seen. What value do you add?

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I think the complex use and creation are probably the exception not the rule. I’m beginning to wonder if most people, especially in the US, could fish ants out of a colony with a stick. I am unfortunately doubtful.

It’s a wonder humans took over the world and not dolphins or some other reasonably smart animal.

Humans are 20% culture, progress, and innovation, and 80% tasty hands and dead weight.

While you are absolutely right, doing this means (probably) tarnishing your own reputation which many people can’t stomach. You can get another job, but a reputation as an incompetent or subversive employee will follow you around.

Naw that’s normal. Peanut butter and honey is good. Peanut butter and marshmallow creme is also pretty executive. Peanut butter and Nutella is good, but only half a sando otherwise it’s too rich.