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I’ve said it before and I won’t tire of saying it:

»Gut, das ist der Pfennig! Und wo ist die Mark?«

The same bullshit is happening everywhere. In the German Bundestag MPs gave standing ovations for care workers. Meanwhile those continue to slave away for pennies, now more precariously than ever, while the next items on the MPs agenda are bailouts for airlines and fucking car manufacturers.

We can’t live without the care people and we don’t want to live without the fulfillment slaves. »Sie schulden euch Glück und Leben.« They should have huge leverage, especially in these times, why will they not organize?

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Check out this CNBC interview with one of the warehouse organisers who was fired. (Which led to Tim Bray quitting.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15HUGc7R8hw

At one point it almost seems like he is suggesting to this poor guy that it is unreasonable for him to protest for better working conditions because "people like me" need to be able to place orders on Amazon while in lockdown. Imagine the difference in salary between the guy working for CNBC and the guy working in the Amazon warehouse. Feels as if we are watching some dystopian fantasy film like Hunger Games.

I think it's a knee-jerk feeling that during an emergency you shouldn't refuse to work because you are making it harder on everyone else, as well as taking advantage of the emergency. That sounds reasonable enough, until you think about the fact that unless they organize and demand improvement now they won't have the leverage to do it after the emergency is over.

Watched and agreed.

I'm sorry but this is emotive gibberish.

> slave

No.

> away for pennies

No.

> We can’t live without the care people

What are you suggesting? Literally destroy all of civilisation to do what? Hire infinite care workers?

> bailouts for airlines and fucking car manufacturers.

So you don't want anything of society to remain? You want all efforts of existence to be focused on care workers?

What a thoroughly disingenuous comment. Here, let me have a go at emulating your style:

>I'm sorry but this is emotive gibberish.

Are you saying all emotion is gibberish? So you want people to have no emotions whatsoever? You're literally in favour of killing people who display emotions?

> What a thoroughly disingenuous comment.

Care to explain which bit you have an issue with?

> people to have no emotions whatsoever? You're literally in favour of killing people who display emotions

I'm saying this person is using an emotionally assumed moral highground to justify arbitrary and unspecified ends. I want to know more about what they are insinuating.

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