It’s worth than slavery, in some ways, because workers become fully disposable.
Under chattel slavery, slave owners spent money on slaves and slaves had a value on them. They insured them against “loss”. They wanted to get their money’s worth. Just like if a car behaved badly you wouldn’t sink it into the lake, if a slave behaved badly you wouldn’t get rid of them without some kind of compensation and it was often easier to beat them into submission.
Under capitalism, you rent your slaves and don’t care what happens to them at all
I wish instance blocks would also block all posts from people from the instance.
What does it even do, actually? Just block the communities in the instance?
Many instances have de-federated with LemmyGrad and Hexbear, which are considered to be badly behaved at the level of the administrators.
The instance to which you object is not similarly problematic. Rather, you feel annoyed by the political leanings, even while the community is permissive of varied political orientations.
Instances may be blocked in your user account, in case doing so makes your personal experience feel more relaxed or productive. You may also consider restricting your participation to communities that enforce a conformity you find suitable. There are plenty of safe spaces in the world for convicted liberals.
Don’t shoot the message, shoot the messenger.
Oh no, did the meme about how dog shit your worldview is irritate you?
Liberals getting mad because they can’t block ideas from their feeds is hilarious.
.ml does a fantastic job of maintaining its echo chamber so there’s a proverb about glass houses and stones that comes to mind.
There are plenty of echo chambers of every variety and orientation. The value of federation is to produce an experience that is varied and complete.
Yes, that’s the reason. Not your incessant peddling of obvious bullshit into everybody’s mouths. I’m also defending your freedom to block obvious shit instances, whatever you might think that means.
Same; “obvious bullshit” is what I call sound reasoning that I don’t like too /s
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Yea, holding a job is just like slavery. It makes perfect sense if you don’t think about it. One time I had to help a customer after I clocked out. You can read about it in my best selling memoir: twelve minutes a slave.
The point is not that workers under capitalism are not paid wages, but rather that working for wages is required to survive.
Workers live under consistent threat of destitution, homelessness, and starvation, even while massive wealth is hoarded, and resources controlled, by an immensely privileged, narrow cohort of society. The coercive conditions of labor under capitalism give rise to the comparison with more explicit forms of slavery.
