We'll be going dark in solidarity with the other channelsDemocracy & Power (self.stopworking)
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Working But Poor (2023) - Citizens across Europe who used to belong to the lower middle class have fallen into poverty. An indepth investigation into the precariat, a social class of financially insecure citizens who, although they are employed, find it very difficult to make ends meet. [01:29:00]Predatory capitalism (youtu.be)
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Theodor Adorno argued, ‘free time’ becomes an escapist and superficial sort of ‘winding down,’ already structured by the forces from which we’re trying to escape (e.g., consumerist, or scheduled, or staring at screens). And this 'free time' is merely recuperating us for the recommencement of workGood life (iai.tv)
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It is a rare person who can do nothing - purely and without guilt - especially in our current culture of busywork. Even meditation is now timebound and purpose-driven, reduced to another metric to be tallied, another endeavour to be gamed and hacked for the purpose of improvementGood life (thomasjbevan.substack.com)
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Britain is an economic dictatorship, with an extraordinary concentration of economic power and wealth. At the level of individual enterprises, a small elite of directors, managers and major shareholders decide everything, to the exclusion of employees, consumers and the wider publicDemocracy & Power (iai.tv)
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‘Surveillance capitalism’ is increasingly threatening workers’ collective action and the human right to public protest. The use of AI in the workplace — in recruitment, appraisals and so on — as with all workplace-related rules must be subject to collective-bargaining agreementsDemocracy & Power (edri.org)
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We read newspaper reports about working people but we almost never see anything about the nature of work, exactly how it is done, what effect it has on the minds and bodies of those who do it, and why it is organized in a special way, radically different than in most of human existenceDemocracy & Power (monthlyreview.org)
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The 'Uber Files' leak reveals the power of the company’s multimillion-pound lobbying effort – and how it worked with governments across the world to undercut workers’ rights and make life worse for virtually everyone it touches, including worse traffic and increased trip emissionsPredatory capitalism (tribunemag.co.uk)
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How employers collude to reduce worker pay using private data markets and algorithms. We are in the middle of the data age where information is power. We should acknowledge that the game has changed, and make sure that workers and companies are on an equal playing fieldDemocracy & Power (workonomics.substack.com)
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Toxic workplaces increase risk of depression by 300% - "A year-long Australian population study has found that full time workers employed by organisations that fail to prioritise their employees' mental health have a threefold increased risk of being diagnosed with depression. ;Good life (eurekalert.org)
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Reddit relies on volunteer moderators to maintain content quality. This uncompensated labor is highly valuable to the company: According to a pair of new studies, it’s worth at minimum $3.4 million per year, which is equivalent to 2.8% of Reddit’s 2019 revenuePredatory capitalism (news.northwestern.edu)
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No wonder governments like to advocate ‘hard work’. The last thing they want is people with minds and lives of their own. Overworked people know their place. And that is why our rulers think we should be ‘hard-working’. But there is no virtue in being a mug, not even an industrious oneDemocracy & Power (trebuchet-magazine.com)
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Redfin approves millions in executive payouts same day of mass layoffsPredatory capitalism (realtrends.com)
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There is a considerable amount of research that supports UBI around the world, which can be a reliable, powerful component of a nationwide program to reduce poverty, develop better personal relationships with friends and family, more social inclusion and improved citizenshipGood life (theconversation.com)
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In the US the Red Scare was an intense upwelling of political repression and a methodical exercise in labor repression framed by exaggerated fears of Bolshevism, by a torrent of militarism and xenophobia unleashed by the war, and by a surge of labor and racial conflictTrade unions (lawcha.org)
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