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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The worst part is the Trump appointed SCOTUS basically made this legal to do.

EDIT: This comment of mine was misleading and unfair. Neil Gorsuch was not on the SCOTUS when he decided a truck driver forfeit his job without means of legal recourse by choosing to abandon his trailer and prevent death from Hypothermia.

[–] abracaDavid@lemmy.today 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Man if I'm moving my parked car to avoid rising waters, I'm not re parking. I'm out of there.

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 11 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I'm sure most people did the same thing.

The ones who were too loyal to the company died.

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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

PSA: before the advent of organized labor, workers would often negotiate with tactics such as “be fair to us, or we’ll break your kneecaps and burn your fucking factory down”.

[–] mogranja@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And then the factory owners got organized, got the police unionized, and we can't do this anymore.

There are still more of us than there are of them

[–] Dorkyd68@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

God damn that's sad. Fuck i don't want to die working

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[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 15 points 2 months ago

Didn't the triangle waistshirt fire happen because the employers were fucking assholes and locked the fire escapes? This is like that, but with water instead of fire.

[–] Allonzee@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Honestly, in the course of our species living in servitude to a few thousand sociopaths who've used their capital/power to convince us that meaningless productivity for toxic economic metasisis is "the only way forward" and the meaning of life, I've come to realize their terraforming of our only habitat against our physically fragile species in their blind, reckless pursuit of ever moar is a purely accidental mercy.

Extinction is far preferable to generation after generation sacrificing themselves from cradle to grave solely to enrich our modern pharoahs of avarice and their nepo progeny without end. Sometimes extinct is better.

You're free to disagree, of course, but better to see the silver lining in what our species is quite literally dead set to do and well into accomplishing. Im just glad greed caused climate change won't permit this torturous, exploitative civilization to continue for more than another half century or so.

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[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago
[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago

Meanwhile, at my workplace, we had to evacuate over the possibility of roads flooding in a tropical storm.

I thought this kind of nonsense was a thing of the past.

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