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I hope the railroad workers strike. This is a prime opportunity to make democrats own up to their piss poor handling of the first strike. It’s not safe to continue like this.
The workers tried to tell everyone, multiple times, and the owners kept shaving away at safety because it was money and the functionaries shaved away at regulations because it made the owners happy and here we are.
Here we are with the train in Ohio and here we are with teachers dead of covid and here we are with bridges collapsing and forests burning down and towns without drinking water and workers exhausted, underpaid and in unnecessary danger.
Unions are good for everyone and this country can't wait to do away with them.
the administration took the side of the companies against the workers and the media took the side of the companies against the workers and now the media is ignoring the results of taking the side of the companies against the workers so they can continue to pretend
Liberals and fascists are on the same side, against the working class.
will the democrats own up to their piss poor handling or will they and the oligarchs close ranks and declare that actually they're totally blameless and any and all derailments are the product of union terrorist sabotage
extremely high odds the latter happens regardless tho, already seeing the first stirrings of that narrative being manufactured. wouldn't care to be in the railworkers' position rn
So, thing the first: this post rules. It’s a bummer but it’s a good observation.
Thing the second: fuck me you could dashboard this, right? Just find some “1 in 1000” events to track, scrape for them, and just… plot it.
that would require Pete buttigeg putting a game producer on this to use JIRA
excellent analysis, and thank you for putting it out here for us other system-thinkers to chew on. as somebody who spends far more time mulling over these ideas than actually expressing them, i appreciate what an effort it is!
As Magic Uncle Vlad said, there are decades in which we fuck around, and weeks where we find out.
I'm sorry, I can't stop laughing at "content warnings for: Ohio".
all good points, but always remember: "we" didn't decide on this. "we" didn't choose to strip out safety systems or slack. "we" aren't the ones acting like breaks and downtime in regular work are "inefficiencies" despite all data to the contrary. all of this comes from capitalists, which are a tiny fraction of the people as a whole. capitalists like to claim that "we" did all this so they can offload their responsibility and prevent people from pushing back as hard.
we will remember. but to fix this, we may have to do a lot of these things despite capital, then in place of it.
Capitalism will die, there's no doubt of that, the real question is how and what comes next.