- www.yesmagazine.org Rest as Resistance
Tricia Hersey’s new book insists we have the power to refuse capitalism’s grind culture and instead prioritize rest.
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"We opened micro-offices to bring remote workers back. Here’s how it’s become key"
Reinventing the wheel to end the "privilege" of work from home, and being proud of the bullshit they make up to justify it
- write.as The lengthy story of how I left the Tech industry and started washing miso jars
Workers these days are quitting the Tech industry in droves. They are quitting their programmer or sysadmin job, or maybe just the startu...
- open.substack.com Capitalism Is Driven By Mental Illness
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):
>I saw a fascinating tweet by BloomTech CEO Austen Allred the other day that stirred up a lot of thoughts here.
>“Of the Silicon Valley founders I know who went on some of the psychedelic self-discovery trips, almost 100% quit their jobs as CEO within a year,” Allred said, adding, “Could be random anecdotes, but be careful with that stuff.”
>Allred tweeted this in response to writer Ashlee Vance sharing that he’d been told by a venture capitalist, “We’ve lost several really good founders to ayahuasca. They came back and just didn’t care about much anymore.”
>There’s some very useful information in those words. They reveal a lot about the insane mess our species finds itself in in today’s world, and provide insight into how we might find our way out.
- phys.org Australia gives workers right to ignore bosses’ after-hours calls, emails
The country is the latest to pass legislation granting a ‘right to disconnect’ outside of work hours.
Two Cloudflare-free tor-reachable articles:
① Australia gives millions of workers 'right to disconnect' ② Australia gives workers right to ignore bosses’ after-hours calls, emails
Those links are also popup-free (at least in my config). But note that ② is a little more junked up and has some video (but my image and autoplay blocking config seems to work).
The wording of the new law sounds flimsy.. leaves it to employers to define whether an interruption is “reasonable”. But nonetheless it’s a step in the right direction.
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Bromley: Cleaner 'wins' holiday after bosses ban fundraiser cash - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk Bromley: Cleaner 'wins' holiday after bosses ban fundraiser cashHe was not allowed to accept a GoFundMe reward of £3,000 raised by members of the community.
- invidious.privacyredirect.com 5 Types of Bullsh*t Jobs with David Graeber
David Graeber talks bullshit jobs and the concept of work under capitalism with Real Media and the Real News Network. Visit http://therealnews.com for more stories and help support our work by donating at http://therealnews.com/donate.
- theslowburningfuse.wordpress.com Why work is so terrible and why it must be destroyed before it destroys us
It has become an article of the creed of modern morality that all labour is good in itself; a convenient belief to those who live on the wealth of others —William Morris, Useful Work vs Useless Toi…
- yt.artemislena.eu David Graeber on a Fair Future Economy
David Graeber is an anthropologist, a leading figure in the Occupy movement, and one of our most original and influential public thinkers. He comes to the RSA to address our current age of ‘total bureaucratization’, in which public and private power has gradually fused into a single entity, rife wi...
- futurism.com Writer Alarmed When Company Fires His 60-Person Team, Replaces Them All With AI
As the last man standing, he was tasked with fixing-up all the AI-generated articles that once would've been composed by dozens of writers.
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"immigrants take jobs Americans won't do" is a euphemism for "immigrants are used as slave labor". there's a reason Louisiana wants to replace immigrant farm workers with literal chain gangs
www.tumblr.com I Believe in Redundancykill the rhetoric that americans are so lazy that they won't take farm jobs. americans take labor intensive jobs all the time. the reason no americans will take farm jobs is because agricultural work…
>kill the rhetoric that americans are so lazy that they won't take farm jobs. americans take labor intensive jobs all the time. the reason no americans will take farm jobs is because agricultural work is exempt from the vast majority of labor laws and labor protections, including the use of child labor. so only immigrants - people who have little to no protection from the law or other options for work - take most of these jobs. we have created a permanent underclass of labor and then say that americans are just lazy for not volunteering to be part of the underclass.