Comment on it's weird that we are prepared to die for democracy, yet willingly enter dictatorships daily for work and spend the majority of our waking lives with people we vaguely know

mojo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Workplaces are structured without democracy by default, and adding democracy can be helpful to workplace problems.

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  • mojo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s a job, not a country you’re living in.

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    • Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And? I shouldn’t get a say? Without a say workers deal with being underpaid, and unsafe conditions. Sometimes the federal government helps fix this. But better yet form a strike, use the collective action to get a fairer workplace.

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      • mojo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        You do get a say in safety, there are very harsh laws if companies get reported not following safety measures. I think everyone is asking for more pay lol, but that has nothing to do with democracy. You only should have a say for so much, there are many things that only those with certain education should have a say. Because again, it’s not a country.

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• Sirsnuffles@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Sorry.

  Directorship*

  Functionally, they are the same.

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  • 30mag@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You don’t get shot for quitting your job.

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    • Sirsnuffles@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I would starve without a job. (without welfare, in some countries, this is not enough)

      There is an order of magnitude here. In a way, I’m being hyperbolic. But I do want to highlight the similarity between the two.

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      • 30mag@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I understand.

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  • mojo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What job (aka enslavement apparently)do you have irl

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    • Sirsnuffles@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Factory worker.

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      • mojo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        So how would a factory line work without leadership lol

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      • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Definitely not a rollform operator if that is the case. Machine builder?

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  • newIdentity@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Search for a new job since your current one is treating you terribly

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• mind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • mojo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yes, because that’s not what happens lol. You don’t immediately lose those things unless you sit around and do nothing. That’s true of literally everything, even communism.

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    • mind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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      • cubedsteaks@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        pay bills past their due.

        I hate that all my bills are like forced automation so I can’t plan out when I can pay them, I’m forced to pay them all at the beginning/end of the month - there’s no options to change the date any more and if you call up and ask, they get all weepy and apologize that they can’t offer a different date to pay.

        So I’m just forced to let them all go through and then play catch up cause of how I get paid not lining up with the end/start of every month.

        Thankfully my job will reimburse me for one of my bills but of course they take fucking forever to process the reimbursement.

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      • mojo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        You went off into a completely separate topic. Also union fights for workers, but it does not imply a democracy. It just means being able to fight back against exploitation. There will still be a CEO in charge and you’ll have no say.

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  • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Just because A and B have overlap doesn’t mean A = B. My boss can’t throw me in a jail cell or have me shot.

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• MrBusinessMan@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You are incorrect. I absolutely run my businesses as a dictatorship because I’m the owner. We don’t “vote” on what to do, if you don’t like my ideas you are FIRED. Same goes for my tenants, if you don’t like my rules then get out of my property!!

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  • mojo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I dictatorship would mean they’d die if they didn’t do what you liked lol. It’s in a government context, not a contractual obligation. A tennet can find another place to live, and a worker can find another company.

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    • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      In what world does a dictatorship require everyone else to die if they don’t agree? They have control over the institution, but they don’t have total control over every individual.

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    • MrBusinessMan@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You do not know what you are talking about. If you want to run your business as a democracy fine but you won’t be successful. I will continue running mine with an iron fist as a dictatorship.

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      • mojo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It’s literally the definition, you are just objectively wrong

        www.britannica.com/topic/dictatorship

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      • cubedsteaks@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I will continue running mine with an iron fist as a dictatorship

        Why do you talk like you’re in a kung fu movie?

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