/labor/ - Labor

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

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.

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?

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.

I want to become either a lawyer, a social worker, or a psychiatrist SPECIFICALLY to divorce Parental Authority from Legal Power over children. I don't like that two humans have legal "ownership" of a third human, merely because they choose to have sex. I believe that the State should, or, MUST, provide children, teenagers, etc, with work permits, housing opportunities, etc so they can leave the Parental house as soon as they wish.
I also oppose the family: I don't mean a half-assed petite bourgeoisie position of "i oppose the trad. west family, but i support SSUs\ polyamory\ single parent " NO!! I oppose ANY AND ALL family-unit, and exalt the individual among all. I, also, wish to work towards these changes.
Which career path is best for me??