• tmyakal@infosec.pub
    491·
    19 days ago

    Dr. King’s policy was, if you are nonviolent, if you suffer, your opponent will see your suffering and will be moved to change his heart. That’s very good. He only made one fallacious assumption. In order for nonviolence to work, your opponent must have a conscience. The United States has none.

    Stokely Carmichael

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    9·
    19 days ago

    Sadly, this is true even for workforces, even though the cost of treating your labor pool well (giving them breaks, letting them chat with loved ones and surf the internet) is surpassed by the profit gained by increased productivity. (There are studies.)

    Game developing companies still crunch, even though crunching decreases the likelihood that a deadline will be met.

    A recent How Money Works video (this one on YouTube) came to the conclusion that the ownership class is just plain cruel and vindictive and is disgusted if their workforce gets even a modicum of class consciousness.

    Every concession for labor, from the weekend to lunch breaks to bodily autonomy to living wages had to be attained by leveraging power against the ownership class.

    So long as we have ownership class, we will be oppressed by them.

    • QDgwZjQYdfbnMdMNQ@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      3·
      19 days ago

      I agree with your points and don’t agree with crunch practices, and this is a bit of a nitpick, but what’s your source for crunching decreasing the liklihood of meeting a deadline?

      I can easily imagine those things having correlation, as if you’re already on track for a deadline, why would you need to crunch?

      I can’t really think of a complete reason for causation to go the other way though.

      • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        2·
        19 days ago

        I remember news coming out about it in the early 2010s that a study showed that crunching reduces productivity drastically, to the point that even (only) two weeks of crunching will negate the additional work time. Curiously, some game companies at the time were crunching for a year or longer. I believe the statistic reported was that productivity commonly was reduced to 10% normal when crunching.

        James Stephanie Sterling did a video about it, which is how the news came to me.

        ETA: Typically, the problem is that game publishers will sometimes set impossible deadlines, or, if a game is on schedule to come out on time, the publisher will push the release date forward to an earlier release season. This was before the trend towards live service games, which was its own nightmare since the game would be released incomplete, but with a roadmap of expected features. Hence the development teams were perpetually behind and often were perpetually crunched. (/ETA)

        Studies from the aughts (not necessarily related to game development) regarding the effect of micromanagement tools used on the workforce (e.g. mouse movement monitoring and keylogging) came earlier, noting that the time wasted by workers (under the label of time theft ) doing activities such as going to the bathroom, checking social media, talking to loved ones on the phone, getting coffee, etc. were more than offset by the increase in productivity when workers were allowed to do these things. (Slacking workers do exist, but they are starkly the exception. And large companies typically have a significantly greater number of bullshit jobs – workers tasked with busywork that doesn’t actually serve administration or the profit motive – than they have shirkers.)

  • Malyca@lemmy.zip
    81·
    19 days ago

    As someone with a strong autistic sense of justice and hyper empathy, usually the fight is between the psychopaths and whatever idiots they’ve manipulated to their cause against the rest of us. They’re psychopaths and narcissists, they have no morals. That’s why they’re evil. You can’t appeal to morality that isn’t there. There’s only one way to deal with them and they’ll pick us off one by one, like they always do, while we hem and haw with delusion about how everything will be ok.

    • explodicle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      19 days ago

      There’s tons of ways to deal with them. I’ve heard vegans suggest compost, and people concerned about prions suggest autoclave.

  • BradleyUffner@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    19 days ago

    Damn right Pikachu! Now get back the fuck back in your ball and fight others of your species for my entertainment!

  • PieMePlenty@lemmy.world
    2·
    19 days ago

    Maybe not “the people” who are doing the oppressing, but it worked when appealing to the individual.
    Society is a bit of a bitch… individuals hold their own beliefs, but when paired with other people, their beliefs get washed down and a singular belief takes hold.

    • draco_aeneus@mander.xyz
      2·
      19 days ago

      Ultimately, the difference between getting freedom from an individual and a group is exactly that it’s a group you need your freedom from.

      With a group, you cannot make a personal appeal. And with a group, it will always consist of some nice people but also some right bastards. The nice ones might concede to your freedom, but the bastards will not. And since it’s in their direct interest to oppress you, which side will work harder, you think?