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If you're not organised with wage labourers in any meaningful and consequential way you're not a communist, just a sympathiser who knows plenty. It's akin to calling oneself a physicist because they watch PBS Space Time & read Feynman sometimes.

But anon I am member of a trade union and a leftist united front party.



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why you're WRONG about the PMC

The professional managerial class is just the most advanced section of wage workers and the primary reason Porky is shafting them is because they RESENT the fact that a subsection of workers, due to the their advanced skill or education, have an increased level of independence.

In the recent debate with the far right over the h1b issue on twitter/x, musk said:

>“There is a permanent shortage of excellent engineering talent. It is the fundamental limiting factor in Silicon Valley,” Musk said on X on Christmas Day. “The number of people who are super talented engineers AND super motivated in the USA is far too low,” Musk said in another post.


Now, it seems to me that what he means by "super motivated" is complying with his unreasonable work demands, and visa holders are much more likely to do so out of fear (of being fired and thus DEPORTED). Musk and his fellow tech titans seem to really resent the relatively high level of bargaining power and independence that skilled professionals have due to their high level of skill and education.

Its no accident that tech-porkies, who rely on these types of workers the most, are the most reactionary and you can see that they have significant government influence (the "tech bro" right). They are waging a brutal class war.

When Musk says "super motivated," he really means "willing to work 80+ hours a week without complaining." And H-1B holders, by design, have no real leverage to push back. H-1B workers are tied to their employers. If they get fired, they have 60 days to find a new job or get deported. That means long hours, no complaints, and low risk of quitting. Musk and other execs hate worker autonomy. If you’re a highly skilled engineer who can walk away and get another six-figure job easily, you won’t put up with unreasonable demands. H-1Bs function as a corporate leash, they allow companies to keep a portion of their workforce permanently dependent. That’s why firms like Google, Meta, and Amazon push so hard for H-1B expansions-not just for talent, but to erode the bargaining power of the wider workforce.

What we’re seeing is a class struggle between professionals and the Capitalist Class—the engineers, developers, and other skilled professionals who actually build and maintain technology versus the executives and investors who extPost too long. Click here to view the full text.
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>>29
including half the posters on leftypol

>>1
Look guys I am replying to Post number ONE!!!1!

>>>/labor/ already getting shat up with debate addict threads

>>316
debate addict is a meaningless term people debate on social media and thats normal. stop with this 'debate addict' bs

>>318
This. Most common behaviors are buzzowrded far too much



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This is a thread about teaching for teachers.

What teaching theories do you like?
Do you have any good tips?
How is your teachers union?

Vent your stories about the dogshit waste of resources on fad educational theories. Or the technologically illiterate boomers who for some fucking reason introduced ipad learning to the school ecosystem because their grandkids got one at christmas.

How do we teach kids the critical philosophical skills to be able to even be able to conceive of the leftist theory we hope later they'll pick up when they bump into it later in life?

Everything teaching. Talk bout it

I think teachers need to start teaching technical skills.
Teaching theory is not gonna help anymore

>>309
teachers do teach technical skills. reading. writing. arithmetic. shop class. gym class. dance class. swimming class. medical school. classes are rarely pure theory.

i think more teachers should teach metacognition. teach people to think critically, be autodidacts. people should know how to look up information, when to trust it, and to what extent. That enables them to teach most things nowadays.

>>310
I mean actual technical skills.
And no, most classes are more theory than technical.

>i think more teachers should teach metacognition. teach people to think critically, be autodidacts. people should know how to look up information, when to trust it, and to what extent. That enables them to teach most things nowadays.


What is metacognition?
Or autodidacts?

Not saying it's a bad idea, what you're suggesting, but , people assume academic skills are invincible and universally adaptive for the real world.

We have top elite scientists and politicians promoting biases of their own political camp.
They're not dummies.
But they too are prone to bias and brain washing.

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>>307
I never liked school. Thought it was mostly a waste of time. The only thing I really found useful was art class watching my teacher draw himself. Monkey see monkey do. I think all classes should be skippable through a test for people that don't want to waste their life in class. My younger brother took the AP Biology test without taking the class. He just bought the study book, studied for a week, and he passed. He said the Bio teaching that administered the test or whatever was blown out of the water and telling him he should be a biologist or some shit, but it's just like most schooling is like, just a way to disseminate information in the absolutely slowest and most inefficient way possible.

Like you know if you're fucking serious about a subject, you're just gonna go read a damn book about the subject, not fucking watch youtube videos on it. That's exactly what school is. Watching a fucking youtube video for something you could learn much better and more efficiently from a book.

I never for the life of me could understand how anyone thought lectures are a good idea after moveable type was invented. Unless there is some component to the learning that is not purely a fucking powerpoint presentation, I mean like an actual physical skill that you can benefit from watching in person, there's no need for teachers.

>>312

OP here. I agree mostly with what you have to say. I'm of the opinion public school under capitalism is mostly a waste of time with just enough good content for it not to get abolished on pedagogical grounds. In reality it's main function is a means of keeping children off the street where they might commit crimes or be political. Instead putting them in a convenient holding pen where the parents children can drop their kids to be wage slaves.

It does seem that all classes are skippable through a test as you wish. Your brother took AP bio when he wanted to. My countries system would allow the same. You, i gather from context grew up in a family who could speak the academic dialect. Maybe they were white collar workers or had degrees or just spent enough time interested in the world in their own study.
Many of my students don't have that.

I saw some study somewhere saying that poor kids hear 30 million less words by the time they are in primary school than rich kids ( i've just done some cursory googling, im pretty tired but this article seems to suggest that while 30 million might not have been true, a word gap does exist and does have effects https://www.shanahanonliteracy.com/blog/is-there-really-a-30-million-word-gap)
The kids that i see in my classes that are capable of independent study have families that read to them every night. They have parents that tell them about the constellations because they read those stories as a kid. They are the parents that answer their kids questions on why is the sky blue with answers they learned in University (or you know, senior high school)
I would imagine your family had that. Some of my kids come from families where not only has no one gone to Uni, they haven't finished high school. Those kids are totally capable of being great learners, i've seen it. But they wont get it without the school.

As for schooling being the slowest way to disseminate info, it certainly can be. If you've got a teacher that subscribes to the banking model of teaching, yeah dude, its less than useless. Its actively harmful.
But there isn't just standing up front and lecturing anymore, education has innovated since then even if perhaps the university has not. Its a bit of a straPost too long. Click here to view the full text.



 

Strategically speaking, cork production is a ripe target for unionization efforts, and once the unions take power in the cork industry, after making basic demands for health care, benefits, etc, they should demand seats on the board of directors at their company for every full time employee. I say this because such a demand effectively has the ability to transform a capitalist owned company into a worker owned cooperative.

Now, why do I say this? Because cork production, despite being very old, is quite resistant to automation for the reasons elaborated upon in this video. The work is also very manual, and labor intensive. It employs a lot more variable capital than constant capital. These are the sorts of industries where profit rates are consistently high. As Cockshott never tires of pointing out, empirical evidence since the 1800s consistently shows that profit rates decrease with a decrease of variable capital or an increase of constant capital. This industry has a high rate of exploitation despite being very old. Which is rare. This is due to the aforementioned resistance to automation. This is a natural resistance rather than a resistance on the part of the workers. Cork trees are all shaped different, and the trees can't just be chopped down for their bark. The trees have to be kept alive so they can be stripped over and over. And they have to be stripped carefully or they die. And you can't let a robot due it due to the unique shape of each tree. So for the foreseeable future this industry will require human workers. And the whole world drinks wine. And the vast majority of wine bottles, billions of them, are stopped with corks from the bark of the cork tree. Nearly all cork is produced in Portugal. That's a single point of failure. Organize the Portuguese cork industry and there's almost nowhere else to turn for good cork. Demand that it be made into a cooperative, and boom, you have a worker owned monopoly because almost nobody else produces this product

People say cooperatives are "petty bourgeois socialism" but I insist that certain industries have unique characteristics which make the strategy of unionize -> demand worker ownership possible. And the cork industry is one of them.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk. Naysayers, rev up your keyboards.

Ugh that bit at the end where they talk about how they're trying to protect the cork trees from dying.
>We are looking for the super duper trees that will survive all disease and drought, and breeding everything from that!
It should be illegal to farm without knowing anything about ecology. You resist those problems with more biodiversity. If you want to protect the cork tree population, plant cork trees in fallow areas and allow them to feralize and adapt to the environment and then crossbreed those trees with the domesticated stock to introduce more variety and resilience into the farmed population.

>>303
Porky needs his money this quarter though

>>303
>>306
shortsightedness and capitalism, name a more iconic duo. especially ironic in an industry that requires decades before the trees are profitable.

not to downplay the genocide which is much much worse, but the IDF deliberately destroyed basically irreplaceable ancestral Palestinian olive trees that were centuries old



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you ever wondered how do giant cranes suddenly get built overnight and you never notice them appearing until they're in place?
anyway making a new general for work in here, thread for all work Know-how, share all the unkown skills you know that are related to your work but most people don't know about/could use knowing

labour intensive work (how to hammer a nail, how to screw a bolt), shitty office work (how to multitask, how to avoid choking your boss, how to spread rumors about a cunt from Human Resources), food work (what we put in your sandwich behind the kitchen, how to mop the floor efficently, how to built tolerance against the smell of bathrooms) trades or STEM (how to argue online your profession is the best using mental gymansium) even sex work (how to suck cocks, how to fuck people in the ass, what to do when he's a shy virgin and he's annoying)

>inb4 i'm neet anti-worker

then share with us what you do to feel the best, how to tie a blanket around your shoulder like the pepe neet, how to get high at home no money paid, how to forge a katana, how to speedrun a game or a book, how to decorate your house in a way that don't make you feel like a miserable wagie
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>>209
not in my experience; if they do, they're charging the company and not you

I don't work I give advice and feels for free.

>>195
Since you mention Torx wrenches, Torx screws are a thing too but the square headed screws Canadians use also are good. Philips head screws are awful always slipping and stripping.

>>220
They throw away donuts for being stale but once it is taken outside tons of people who work at donut shops and bakeries will give you free donuts if you ask for them before they throw them out, and nothing stops you from dumpster diving for them if it isnt in a locked dumpster area. Ive gotten free donuts.

>>233
Uber and Lyft drivers should also use Mobicoop or Companero and the like to put Uber and Lyft out of business. I havent used them personally though so I am not sure how good they are for the drivers and riders.

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>>213
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunch_atop_a_Skyscraper
>The photographic negative is in the Bettmann Archive, owned by the Visual China Group.
<Visual China Group Co., Ltd. (VCG) is a Chinese photo and media agency.

lol China owns that photo now

>The first man from the right, holding a bottle, has been identified as Slovak worker Gustáv (Gusti) Popovič. The photograph was found in his estate, with the note "Don't you worry, my dear Mariška, as you can see I'm still with bottle" written on the back.

>using an electric drill to drive screws into wood
First of all, you should ideally use an impact driver, but if an electric drill is all you've got (like me) then remember to set the power as low as possible to drive the screw until the head is flush with the surface of the wood. Too many retards set it to max and then drive the screws into the wood, cracking the wood, making the connection weaker, making it harder to unscrew in case you need to adjust because the wood has closed around the screw head.

If a head of a screw breaks off, rather than pull the screw with pliers or whack at it with a hammer like an imbecile, grab the visible part of the screw with the three prongs of the drill bit holder, tighten it and then just unscrew the broken screw.

>Cutting wood

When cutting wood to precise lengths or cutting out precise amounts to make joints, remember that the hand saw and electric circular saw both have a thickness and you need to take it into account.

>Wood glue

Wood glue is fantastic at holding wood together. People hear the word "glue" and think it's like.paper glue. Nah, it penetrates the two pieces of wood and then fuses together. That is why the surfaces you're gluing should be rough. Sanded surfaces have a lot of the pores closed (that's what sanding does) and the glue can't penetrate as well, which means it can't hold as well. When a screw is added to a glued joint, the screw is there to keep them together while the glue fuses/dries. Wood glue sets in about 10mins, but it takes around 24h to dry and harden (in normal, dry conditions). Use a wet cloth to wipe away any extra glue.

There's lots more one learns while woodworking. There's loads of "tricks" that only click once you're actually working with the wood. It all comes with experience.

>>269
Anything but torx is trash
/thread



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Why does porky need some guy who can make spreadsheets and harvard 22 years to tell a 55 year old ceo to do his job with a powerpoint? and then make that guy a middle manager after he leaves mckinsey?
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>>160
It's class solidarity.

Consultants are just used as cheap staffing agencies.

>>167
those are low end consultants. I think this is about high end "management" consulting.

>>160
That's how capitalism spreads knowledge between different companies

It's a combination of factors.
<money laundering
<scapegoating
<performance for shareholders
<performance for management (convincing yourself you're actually doing something)
<actually trying to trim the "fat" in the business
etc



 

< A new academic study by Teke Wiggin of Northwestern University reveals how Amazon used advanced algorithms to suppress unionization efforts at its Bessemer, Alabama, warehouse.
< The research, based on worker interviews and FOIA requests, details Amazon’s use of workplace surveillance, algorithmic discipline, and social media monitoring to discourage union support.
< Amazon exploited workplace devices to send anti-union messages, gauge employee sentiments, and intimidate workers through “captive audience” meetings.
< The company also used a strategy called “algorithmic slack-cutting,” temporarily easing working conditions during union elections to create a false sense of improvement.
< At the same time, Amazon increased digital harassment, using workplace apps to push anti-union content that workers were forced to see.
< Social media groups formed by employees to discuss grievances were heavily monitored, with Amazon tracking Facebook, Reddit, and other online forums for organizing efforts.
< The study reveals Amazon’s AI-powered mapping of union activity, showing its proactive measures to suppress labor movements across multiple locations.
< Employees faced termination for social media posts criticizing working conditions, and some were recruited to spread positive narratives about Amazon online.
< The study argues that Amazon is not merely using AI to manage workers but actively weaponizing technology to dismantle labor organizing.
< Despite repeated union elections and legal interventions, Amazon’s aggressive tactics have kept Bessemer warehouse workers from successfully organizing.
< The article also connects Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' political affiliations to potential threats against labor protections under a Trump administration.
< Ultimately, the study describes Amazon’s workplace control as a form of corporate despotism, using AI not just for efficiency but for coercion.

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Share your daily commute experience here and maybe give some tips on how you tolerate it.

I'm a Mumbai soydev and I need to travel 3 hours a day crammed in these designated shitting carriages known as Mumbai's local trains. The gutka stains, stench and general lack of civic sense have turned me into the most classist person. Any respectable populace would've revolted against their leaders by now for such mistreatment, but I guess Indians are a different breed of shameless. My only alternative as of now is to commute on my bike, on which I have death-defying near misses almost every single timw. The roads are ridden with potholes and bumps and all the motorists here are careless fucking cunts. Also, wearing riding gear in Mumbai's heat feels like getting baked in an oven. I try to get sick leaves or work from home whenever possible because the commute is so dreadful. I envy Europeans and East-Asians for having some of the best public transportation on the planet, and had it not been for my sick mom I would've left this dead-end shithole a long time ago. You lucky mfs can travel 100km/hr without breaking a sweat and we have to struggle for hours just to travel less than 30km.

>>184
I topped at 2h per day and that was already terrible. Spending 40% of your "free time" traveling sounds like hell
> I envy Europeans and East-Asians for having some of the best public transportation on the planet
Thatbreally depends on where you live. Right now I must commute 1h by car every day because unless you're a student there's no public transport towards the city.

>>185
Why do students get public transportation but not you? Are there student only buses? Oh wait, school buses?

>>186
Because the local SoE for bus transport got yelled at enough. And even that they try to cut back on available routes each year, and each year my municipality has to send complaints to get enough busses to trsnsport all the students. Used to be this way when my brother went to high school and I doubt the situation improved.

>>185
Speaking of



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