Tomohisa Watanabe 3 days ago

seems like the tech workers who prided themselves as being too valuable to the companies that were making record profits from their innovations and compensating the workers at historic levels may need to rethink the idea that they don't need to organize just like other workers. they can be laid off just like any other worker and if they don't collectively fight for some leverage, they will find the companies will sacrifice the workers before they sacrifice their profits. don't be fooled by the idea that you're different from the rest of us workers just because they pay you more at the moment or all the perks they include to compete with other tech companies for tech workers. organize if you feel you could have been treated better. organize when you have it good so that they can't just cut severance packages before big layoffs. organize so that you are guaranteed layoff notices that let you prepare your life and responsibilities because trust that the companies knew months in advance what they were planning to do even if they lied and told you nothing until the layoff notices went out.

SoHannaBarberaesque 3 days ago

And yet the Trumpist/MAGA agenda and articles of faith insist on using tariffs at levels not seen since the Corn Laws in Britain in the early 19th century with an eye towards reclaiming past industrial glory within the parameters of "economic freedom with American characteristics," such "born out of the Volk to serve the Volk" at that!

(At least in theory.)