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  • @[email protected]
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    51 year ago

    The bosses will never pay us our fair share unless we force them to.

    No. The bosses will never pay you your fair share. Ever.

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          -41 year ago

          I’m not quite sure what it means for someone not to act as forced.

          You seem to be negating the possibility of advancing beyond the status quo.

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            1 year ago

            My view of their argument is, you can’t have a ‘fair’ share while you have a boss that controls the productive forces, while you are forced to either work under their employ or starve. The arrangement itself is unfair. Though I definitely still would advocate for better worker’s rights, wages and such right now.

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              Sure, but the post is simply asserting that any advances for workers would require force against bosses.

              The way I understood the objection is that eliminating the bosses would never be achieved.

              The objection that fairness for workers requires completely eliminating bosses is parsing the semantics, which is a confusing way to respond.

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                41 year ago

                Maybe I am misunderstand this whole conversation haha, but it seemed you thought it was a pessimistic view that the bosses won’t pay a fair share, so I was replying that it seemed like a realistic view because in the position that bosses have, there is little incentive for a proper fair share. Though on reflection their comment was doomer-y regardless of the underlying intention.

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                  It is pessimistic to predict that worker advancement would reach some particular point at which the bosses could no further be forced into retreat.

          • @[email protected]
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            31 year ago

            I’m not quite sure what it means for someone not to act as forced.

            I don’t understand what you mean by this.

            You seem to be negating the possibility of advancing beyond the status quo

            Some things can be advanced beyond the status quo, for example degrees of exploitation. Some things can’t be advance beyond the status quo, for example the existence of exploitation.

            • @unfreeradical
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              Some things can’t be advance beyond the status quo, for example the existence of exploitation.

              You are expressing doomerism.

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        21 year ago

        I don’t take that as a doomer view at all. It’s the view that we must eliminate bosses. Which, to me, is actually a far more positive view than the one that sees having bosses as inevitable, but simply wants slightly higher compensation from the slave masters.

        • @unfreeradical
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          11 year ago

          It is confusing, though, to give such an objection, because the post is not advocating against eliminating bosses.