Comment on Why aren't people harassing marketers?

• Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Harassing the underpaid workers is your solution?

  They’re already harassed and their conditions are already deteriorating. The only way that will ever improve is if there is no profit in mistreating them, since there is no party interested in improving things for workers in this country.

  One thing ive noticed is that the younger generation, which I assume you are

  One thing I’ve noticed is that boomers think that if you disagree with them, it means you must be younger than them and therefore wrong.

  have a lot of desire to change capitalism but absolutely shit poor ideas how to do it.

  As opposed to no desire to change capitalism and infinite excuses to prevent such change.

  Im not saying I have any great ideas either.

  Or any desire to formulate any.

  But making the already suffering employees suffer more will not lead to changes. You know that.

  They will have to suffer more regardless. Capitalism demands more work for the same wages over time. And inflation guarantees that wages’ ability to pay for a living decrease over time.

  I know I disagree with you so you immediately assume I’m a child incapable of giving anything any thought. I work in a customer-facing position. I have my own set of ways to gum up the works for my sector of the economy. Yes, some of the things I listed are aggravating to workers. The ones I have for my job are based on personal experience and I know I would hate them too. But every last one of them was selected to maximize time and resources wasted first and foremost, with the goal of causing actual diminution of the fortunes of the company. If it’s just a dick move to the employees, if it causes them suffering without also harming the company’s bottom line in some way, I didn’t include it. Except maybe the dumb questions thing. That’s probably a bridge too far.

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  • spittingimage@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    One thing I’ve noticed is that boomers think that if you disagree with them, it means you must be younger than them and therefore wrong.

    If you’re older than a boomer, your arguments tend to consist of. “Speak up! Why can’t you speak up? No, I don’t need a hearing aid. I need you to speak up!”

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