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What is /labor/'s opinion on making content about your job to share on social media? Is this an effective method for spreading class consciousness? (Ignore the genpol shit please)



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a thread for salting, becoming a salt




You just went from working a solid career-type job to working retail or fast food again? Become a salt. Recession compression creates ideal salting conditions–downward mobility, employer arrogance, worker bitterness. Embed without announcing. Become dependable, a communist should be the hardest working man in the shop, stay observant, find the cracks, then slow corrosive. Learn the workplace rhythms, identify informal leaders, exploit management contradictions. Never preach–weaponize the material conditions and shared misery. Reinforce that exploitation isn't personal, it's structural. Organize under cover of small talk. Normalize resistance. You're not radical–you're just the one who says what everyone’s already thinking.

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https://industrialworker.org/salt-is-back-on-the-table/
For those unfamiliar, salting is when workers seek employment for the purposes of kick-starting an organizing campaign, or to assist an organizing campaign already in motion. Salting can come in a variety of various strategies, depending on what organizing looks like in a specific shop or what the conditions are like in a specific industry.


https://www.teenvogue.com/story/what-is-salting-organizing-tactic

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>>1122
>because the more essential jobs require you to pay out of pocket for education/training and if people don't have the money to pay for the training they won't get it. make sense? in a planned society you would just put people in those jobs and pay for their training socially.

Yet people have no problem taking out five figure loans for college education that they won't be able to pay back in their lifetime.

>>1125
bankruptcy is not so bad. your whining is bourgeois

>>1126
>Whining about bankruptcy for working class folk is bourgeois

And then you people wonder why leftism is not getting any traction

https://workersorganizingworkers.org/
https://workersorganizingworkers.org/
https://workersorganizingworkers.org/
DSA runs a national salting program and will try to place you where you have a good job of actually organizing to take money from capitalists and give it to workers.

>>1042
porky outsourced. blame them.



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Open Insulin are an amazing co-op, and unlike most they aspire to be more than a coffee shop. They are trying to create a pharmaceutical co op that will distribute insulin to people with diabetes. They are in the process of fully developing their production techniques.
https://openinsulin.org
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>>909
a worker-owned co-op developing open-source medicine is literally communization in action comr8

>>909
fuck off

This is very cool. We should do the same for HIV meds.

Recent insulin glargine results from Counter Culture Labs
>Over the past year the Open Insulin chapter at Counter Culture Labs has focused on refining our techniques for using transgenic Pichia pastoris in order to synthesize glargine, a type of long acting insulin. In 2024 and 2025 there have been two flask culture runs and one bioreactor run that have been confirmed to have successful glargine production with protein gels and western blots.
>The bioreactor run from 6/24/2024/ to 6/30/2024 has the most promising result because the other successful results were cultures grown in flasks which are less useful for producing large amounts of Insulin than cultures in a bioreactor. The synthesis pathway for glargine that was integrated into Pichia pastoris is methanol activated, meaning it will only produce glargine when methanol is added to the feedstock.
>The Open Insulin team at Counter Culture Labs has confirmed glargine expression from this bioreactor run as well as two flask runs. The first of these flask runs was grown from 11/25/2024 – 12/04/2024 and the second one was grown from 02/05/2025 – 02/24/2025. The former run was confirmed only via a protein gel; the latter run was confirmed via both a protein gel and a western blot.
>While these three cultures showed that the Pichia pastoris strain developed by Open Insulin is capable of expressing significant quantities of insulin glargine, expression is not consistent . The next step in our work is to continue experiments to obtain reliable and consistent expression.
https://openinsulin.org/recent-insulin-glargine-results-from-counter-culture-labs/

This is dual power.



 

I've been thinking of buying stocks, futures, and maybe even gold with the few laborbux that I can spare. I want to build up some kind kind of wealth that I can fall back on if I'm ever unemployed for some time or if I have an emergency. Is it immoral by leftist standards to invest in the stock market or is it okay?
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>>1177
>Is it immoral by leftist standards
what are "leftist standards"

if youre a consequential then that means 'its okay when we do it'


you could also short

moralism shouldn't be a consideration if you are a marxist. marxism is by its very nature anti moralist, whether or not investing in the stock market is immoral is irrelevant, if it would improve your material conditions go ahead

>>1235
Read what? What am I looking at here?
Yeah you made some returns. No shit.
Like good for you. You wigggled beyond the cuck le'terms of service of what lottery ticket you can purchase and when. You want me to clap for you?

>im a middle classer but i feel le bad over it
lol join the leftoid club

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>Is it immoral to invest in the stock market?
no, but it is basically gambling if you don't have access to the same analytics and insider trading knowledge that the bourgeoisie have.
>it immoral by leftist standards to invest in the stock market or is it okay?
In the United States, if you deposit your money in a bank account, the bank basically gambles with it, whether you put it in a savings account or not. This is because banks not only operate on the principle of fractional reserve banking, but because of US deregulation that dissolved the legal distinction between commercial and investment banking. Basically porky already invests your money against your will whether you do or not. May as well do it for yourself since it's going to be used for that purpose anyway, and for their benefit instead of yours.



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Neo-Job Finding Be like:
>High-Grandeur Doctorate Schaeffer Degree in Fancy-Schmancy
>5 years of experience in a similar field (optional, even though its not XD)
>Certificate of courses in Fancy-Schmancy levels AC30 (minimum)
>English certificates (even if you're proficient, cough up money for courses, useless lessons and taking tests for least a few months of your life)
>Driver's license (ABSOLUTELY MANDATORY)
>CV/portfolio
>Dicksucking loyalty to customers (you MVST be VERY SOCIAL AND LOVE ZE CUSTOMERS)
>Handling finances, personal information, anything that can get you sued for slight misconduct (YOU MVST BE GOOD AT QUICK MATHS)
>Computer proficiency (Expert at word, excel, foxit, WPS office, Abaqus FEA Software, Google Ads и Meta Ads Manager and all these awful program things with awful interfaces)
>Ability to stand and bend and crouch 12 hours (NO SITTING ALLOWED!)
>Flexible time (whenever you can have the bravery to BEG the manager for a DAY OFF so they can SIGH at you and treat you like THE FILTHY TRASH YOU ARE, LITTLE WAGIE, YOU MVST BE CONSIDERATE OF YOUR COWORKERS WHO WILL HAVE TO WORK HARDER BECAUSE OF YOU, THINK ABOUT THE SHIFT SOMEONE ELSE WILL HAVE TO TAKE!)
>Able to take responsibility for projects worked under set deadlines and copes well working with short time frames;
>CV/portfolio
>Teambuilding events, be prepared to meet your dandruff coworkers off work
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>>1053
I'm compiling a big list of vape shops to contact and see if they're hiring. It aggravates me how there's literally a vape shop every block or so yet i never see ads for them on indeed or Craigslist

Also if I'm willing to compile this list im willing to sass them if they say apply online
>you could've just said you're not hiring… Do you even use crypto boomer?

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for me the worst part is needing to both send in my resume (which ill customize for the job in question) and then answer everything all over again on their job portal + a bunch of extra shit they throw in. why even have me send in a fucking resume

>Thanks, we should get back to you in a week!
>(ghosts you)

>>1229
well obviously,they litterally need 1 or maybe 2 guy at most,and most of them are just them working in their own store.
they aleady personally know people they can hire too the minute their friend quit.



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What are the most EVIL (non-violent so; petty, cowardly..not like at least being a (((soldier))) on the frontline) 100% Legal jobs, under American Capitalism?
I think of:
>Repo Agency CEO
>Medical Debt Collector
>Pharmaceutical Lobbyist\ healthcare company negotiator (meaning; uses legal and other tactics to make CLIENTS pay more, have less benefits)
>specialised pro-landlord Lawyer\ pro-gentrification legislator
what else!!
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Anything related to (((banks))).

Factory farm/slaughterhouse worker. You have to be sadistic paychopath to work there, even if you are not when you start you will soon turn into one.

According to the customers i served, hospitality/bartending apparently (i served the person first in the queue and didn’t make their drink right away afterwards)

>>1250
Get those echoes outta here fash.

>>579
He said non-violent
Merc work pretty violent dawg

I guess some that come to mind is like… only fans or HR
The former isn't really a job so much as a sales clusterfuck



 

Are u anons ready for slavery again, without even being fed by porky this time

>porkies trying to prevent workers from quitting

>using already existing indentured slavery model, where you have to pay off company loans
>trying to make it apply to on-the-job training now as well
>prevented nurses and other essential workers from leaving to other hospitals for hell
>pushing to make it wider
>Rightard states rejecting any legal challenges
>calling them TRAPs to rub it in

https://jacobin.com/2025/08/corporate-america-noncompete-workers-traps

Yeah no shit. Anyone who stays in America is retarded. What do you expect from a country born to bootlick the wealthy?
>MUH WAR OF INDEPENDENCE
<WE FOUGHT FOR LOWER TAXES ON OUR ELITES
retarded country. retarded people. retarded system.

America never left slavery.
If we are entering slavery again, that would mean loan debt and compulsory law never existed between 1865 and 2025



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I applied for it because I desperately need a job and they gave me an 'audition' (wtf?) and it is like I am meant to be a performer or something. My friends say its a strip club but online apparently its not. I don't want to be a stripper BUT I NEED A JOB. Is it worth trying or is it sex work? Damn on the googile images it really looks like a strip club.
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>>1218
I think you're the jokester, considering I cleared more on a Thursday night at bars than in a whole week at taco bell, and that's the third biggest money night.

>bouncing your tits around is "sex work"
what the fuck does sex mean to americans

>>1220
You're asking the wrong people about sex

>>1219
It depends on what kind of bars though

Can't fight the moonlight.



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What makes you motivated to wake up each week day and begin another days work? Am personally not particularly motivated by things, so am looking for something of another form. Am currently a student more or less dreading and finding it difficult to imagine enjoying most of my life. Am looking for a perspective to stop dreading the future working so much.

Know statistically that most American workers are "very satisfied" with their occupation, but find this confusing. Who would want to work? Suppose someone who rationalized, or someone who earns money by coincidence (their interests and aspirations by happenstance being economically viable). Is there some way out of this?
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>>567
This is probably just more psycho stuff. Should probably just ignore.

>>478
>The brain seems to be wired where rewards like this just don't motivate. Being motivated solely by necessity seems like it be just a dreadful, slavish, existence, but it doesn't work for me anyway.

Listen to George Carlin's take on motivation.
He says motivation is troublesome because the people who have it are usually up to no good.

>The people who are motivated are the ones causing all the trouble! Stock swindlers, serial killers, child molesters, religiopolitical conservatives? These people are highly motivated!

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I think the alternative to working would be doing something for fun (hobbies), or doing nothing and being depressed. Everything costs money, and I don't like the idea of living on benefits.

Why is it ok to criticize work but when I criticize schooling, it's considered wrong?
Schooling has far more dross than working.

>>1206
i dont see a problem, schools are bullshit, rape all teachers



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Whoever came up with using AI for tech support chat is a genious and a liberator, a hero of modern IT workers.
I fucking hate doing tech support. Blessed be LLMs.
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>>1086
>Talking to people is a skill. Communicating with people is a skill. De-escalating people is a skill. Troubleshooting is a skill. Tech support workers are skilled workers. Corona just fired, what was it, 700 of their tech support workers and replaced them with AI. So now what are those tech support workers going to go do? Get a job at the fucking McDonald's like everybody else? Get 10 hours? AI hasn't liberated anybody. It's only made the rich richer. That's fact. This AI shit isn't a liberation of anyone, except for your wallet into the rich people's fucking pocket.

Become a clerk or something

>>1086
also complaining about the deskilling of labor, an inevitability of capitalism, is the petit booj as fuck lol. as expected from the "zine" content creator

>>1113
Most of the jobs being deskilled are non-technical jobs anyway.

>>1117
The people who are the most pissy about AI are usually people who don't do any essential work.
They usually do hobby work.

They're averse to blue collar jobs in the first place.

>>1110
Depends on the type. Some system and network admins know the entire product catalog of CISCO, but use PCs in a manner barely more agile than a boomer



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