The most vulnerable occupations read like a C-suite dependency list — management analysts facing 30.8% projected displacement; computer programmers, 55.2%; financial analysts, 24.8%. These are not warehouse workers or call center agents. These are the people your business runs on.
Your business runs on financial and management analysts, not those useless laborers…
Even when they’re actually trying to be sober realists they’re still totally detached from material reality.
It would mean acknowledging the Labor Theory of Value as valid, when their worldview relies on the opposite. Anyone who spends more than two seconds thinking about it realizes Amazon would lose more from its warehouse staff not showing up to work one day vs. their accounting department. So bootlicking reporters do a lot to make sure people don’t stop and think about it.
Even when they’re actually trying to be sober realists they’re still totally detached from material reality.
Reminds me of Thomas Hobbes and his all-vs-all beliefs about people, and yet it took hundreds of people months/years of working together to make sure he had his bread every morning[1] :kropotkin-shining:
Elites cannot see the foundations that undergird their power.
It reminds me of the people who are trying to criticize Joe Rogan’s comedy sphere by saying “The club is in a terrible area, there are homeless everywhere and they are so aggressive.”
They can’t help but tell on themselves, even in their attempt to be ‘a good person’.
Your business runs on financial and management analysts, not those useless laborers…
Even when they’re actually trying to be sober realists they’re still totally detached from material reality.
It would mean acknowledging the Labor Theory of Value as valid, when their worldview relies on the opposite. Anyone who spends more than two seconds thinking about it realizes Amazon would lose more from its warehouse staff not showing up to work one day vs. their accounting department. So bootlicking reporters do a lot to make sure people don’t stop and think about it.
Reminds me of Thomas Hobbes and his all-vs-all beliefs about people, and yet it took hundreds of people months/years of working together to make sure he had his bread every morning[1] :kropotkin-shining:
Elites cannot see the foundations that undergird their power.
and bread is just one commodity! ↩︎
It reminds me of the people who are trying to criticize Joe Rogan’s comedy sphere by saying “The club is in a terrible area, there are homeless everywhere and they are so aggressive.”
They can’t help but tell on themselves, even in their attempt to be ‘a good person’.