I’m all for reforming our current work system, but we need organized action. Can we make that happen here? Or is there a different community for that?
I’m all for reforming our current work system, but we need organized action. Can we make that happen here? Or is there a different community for that?
That’s a good question. If you don’t mind, I’m going to use the “Speak as moderator” button here (although i don’t really know what that does).
I see a few things necessary to reform the current economic system - let’s call it Awareness, Advocacy and Action:
I’m completely open to using this community for any and all of the above. When we have a good critical mass of users, we can all vote on this, and I’ll abide by the consensus.
In the meantime, however, we need to get more people to rally behind the cause. We have ~500 subscribers here from all over the world in a variety of jobs. That’s not nearly enough to do any sort of Action. All we can do in the meantime is Awareness and Advocacy. That means posting memes and screenshots, that means posting news that counters corporate propaganda, that means posting news about organised action taking place elsewhere that we can celebrate or contribute to.
If anyone disagrees, please share your opinions here, I’m totally open to suggestions, criticisms, insults even.
I think “speak as mod” adds a red “mod” logo (kinda looks like a shield) next to your username. That’s it, as far as I can tell - it doesn’t pin the post or highlight it or do anything else.
ah cool thanks!
What I think should happen is that once it gets big enough, ‘Worker Memes’ should split into its own forum/mag so things are organized better.
I also disagree that 500 or so can’t do any action. They can still write to politicians, tell people about a big protest that is going to happen, or send money to striking workers, do coding if any are programmers, etc. It’s just a tiny amount of action, but if we’re connecting with other groups that can add up.
Thanks! You definitely have some good ideas. Like you said, once it gets big enough we can think about splitting it, but we’re nowhere near that threshold - as a comparison, the reddit equivalent has hundreds of thousands of subscribers, and it’s being used for awareness posts/memes as well as advocacy (talking about strikes that are happening). I don’t know what a good threshold is, but we’re nowhere near large enough yet - we barely have 1 page of content, so there’s room for everything.
In the meantime, feel free to keep posting advocacy/action ideas!