#bossism — Public Fediverse posts
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it seems to me that almost all "anti-capitalism" can be fairly cleanly divided into anti-bossism and anti-commercialism.
#capitalism #antiCapitalism #bossism #antiBossism #antiComercialism
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@AnarchistArt "the boss needs you, you don't need them"
that depends on how many bossless workplaces and opportunities for non-labour productivity there are. the less governable workplaces are, the less people are dependent on bosses.
how does that happen? though people changing their behaviour at work. circumvent chains of command, maximize structures of negotiation, within and towards the outside.
build the #counterEconomy at work.
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CW: sisyphism and automation
"should we automate all jobs, even the fulfilling ones?"
how about you let people choose what activities we find fulfilling and automate what they want? they would probably choose to automate the least pleasurable things first.
and if there is a desire, than this is a thing to be negotiated with the customer, with money or otherwise.
i think people would already have much more pleasuable and meaningful jobs if they had more control over them…
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CW: bosses ruin markets, culturally
i think did talk about the economic case often enough: rent seeking, central planning, collusion with government, yada yada.
but control by bosses also means that exchange is mediated by impersonal systems of control and value extraction to the extent that the process of of market cooperation becomes obscured, or even outright absent (bullshit jobs, overconsumption)
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Capitalism Strikes Back. This movie sucks.
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I sometimes ask myself why companies, even technology-based ones, fall for proprietary techologies (DIrectX and CUDA come to mind). look at how many are "industry standard". Like they sell software themselves, "clearly they realize that copyright is a dependency-building scam, right?". but i don't think they do. it shows just how much bosses are central planners instead of market actors. the more privilege they have, they less they actually need to make rational decisions.
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strike is only the most basic form to appropriating the company. next steps may include:
* actually owning the means of production (BYOD, homeoffice, ...)
* getting rid of bossist backdoors in those devices (key escrow, admin stuff)
* secure communication to co-workers and customers
* bottom-up coordination of production processes
* collaborative tools for planning, policymaking and arbitration outside of bossist control -
why is #insiderTrading illegal? the only reason i can think of is to protect bosses from employees from using their inside knowledge in the market. but maybe i'm a bit single-track minded on the topic of states protecting #bossism?
thoughts?
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@coopernurse depends on your definition of profit. freed markets would try to maximize benefit of all participants, not the benefit of middlemen.
and if those middlemen try to suck most of the value of our transaction, then the free-market thing to do is to cut them out, and find better ways to let supply meet demand.
