Any laborer who thinks that companies are their friend is (clearly) not a socialist.
But any laborer who thinks that companies are their friend is also, quite clearly, not an ideological capitalist.
The negotiating power of labor with capital is core to the functioning of capitalism and the free market. Laborers who think the elites are their friends, and not just cold cogs of an economic machine that must be dealt with only on terms and with power balances that benefit the laborer, are not capitalists. They’re feudalists who are happy to kneel in exchange for nothing but scraps from the lord’s table.
Left or right, companies are only your friend if you’re willing to be a slave.
Are you sure you’re responding to the right comment?
Or the right thread?
You sound like an artist.
For… believing that the negotiating power of labor is central to capitalism and free exchange, as opposed to the personal relationships that are economically core to feudal systems?
It’s like an episode from a generic cartoon where they think big corp is an entity itself, with its desires and needs, and it is not ran by people/integrated by its employees. You can get so much knowing the right people than by having above average skills.
Networking has been important in my career and I like people, so I do, at least partially. Company needs both good comp and cool people to attract me if I’m going to spend time working for them.
I like the people I work with. I hang with some of them outside of work. The company can suck my dick, but the people are tight.
Any laborer who thinks that companies are their friend is (clearly) not a socialist.
But any laborer who thinks that companies are their friend is also, quite clearly, not an ideological capitalist.
The negotiating power of labor with capital is core to the functioning of capitalism and the free market. Laborers who think the elites are their friends, and not just cold cogs of an economic machine that must be dealt with only on terms and with power balances that benefit the laborer, are not capitalists. They’re feudalists who are happy to kneel in exchange for nothing but scraps from the lord’s table.
Left or right, companies are only your friend if you’re willing to be a slave.
I don’t go to work to make friends. You sound like an artist that’s in it for the clout.
I… that’s the point?
Are you sure you’re responding to the right comment?
Or the right thread?
For… believing that the negotiating power of labor is central to capitalism and free exchange, as opposed to the personal relationships that are economically core to feudal systems?
What I like is they are saying we should be friends with corporations but that they also don’t go to work to make friends.
So… do they have any human friends?
Not with this attitude
It’s like an episode from a generic cartoon where they think big corp is an entity itself, with its desires and needs, and it is not ran by people/integrated by its employees. You can get so much knowing the right people than by having above average skills.
Networking has been important in my career and I like people, so I do, at least partially. Company needs both good comp and cool people to attract me if I’m going to spend time working for them.
I like the people I work with. I hang with some of them outside of work. The company can suck my dick, but the people are tight.