• RedPandaRaider@feddit.org
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    3 days ago

    Workplaces, at least under capitalism, aren’t a voluntary hierarchy. You have to sell your labour to survive.

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      3 days ago

      The acceptance of hierarchy, as I have often seen, is very often even wanted.

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        3 days ago

        I think you mean the way workers organize themselves? Like at my workplace our internal organization among coworkers is voluntary and friendly, but our employment is very much not.

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          3 days ago

          Well no, I’m talking about lots of people who gladly just sits at their level at work accepting the manager is the decider etc.

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            2 days ago

            I’m sure there are people for whom the arrangement of being laborers is not distressing, but the fact that they’re in that position at all is coerced by the fact that they need income to acquire the basic needs of life. It’s like how slavery is still bad even if many of the slaves are treated well. Maybe they would be doing something else if they weren’t forced to work for someone else, but we’ll never know because they don’t really have a choice.

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              2 days ago

              Everyone needs to pay rent and eat, but that was not the question.