Yea. The Matrix was great and had good points but also had some very not-so-great points.

Lovely book.

Cool story bud but that’s not how shit works. Go play your reactionary, blame-shifting games elsewhere.

Edit: lol please keep responding you braindead Muppets, it lets me know who to block.

Its up to the employee to ensure they do not get away with it.

This is literally victim blaming.

Oh, you were exploited by the system? Well it’s your fault for letting them do it, silly peasant!

You literally do not understand the mechanisms behind systemic exploitation.

The original claim wasn’t that they will simply just “refuse to pay”, it is that they will take advantage of the convoluted system in order to exploit the vulnerable and desperate workers they are responsible for.

Trusting the legal system that was designed and run by capitalists to uphold the interest of workers is braindead bootlicking. Literally. Fuck off your naive bullshit.

You don’t get paid daily, dipshit. What gives them the impression they can get away with it is because they rely on a convoluted system to obscure their fraud against vulnerable, such as the youth who do not fully understand their rights as workers, and the desperate who are taking bottom of the barrel jobs to make ends meet and don’t want to risk putting their lifeline in jeopardy to stand up for their rights. A legal battle takes time, but rent is due and the fridge is empty right now.

Jesus Christ, you are naive. Holy fuck you’re not even worth talking to. Fuck off with your myopic victim blaming rhetoric.

This gave me a good chuckle. I needed that. Thanks mate.

Got a love all the victim blaming going on in this thread right mate? I seriously don’t get these people who bend over backwards to lick capitalist boots.

Placing the blame on the victim to not be taken advantage of instead of blaming the one who is taking advantage of others is myopic as fuck.

Bud you think fraud doesn’t happen? How naive are you? Businesses will happily commit fraud if they think they can get away with it. And they do, routinely.

You assume the business isn’t committing fraud by not reporting accurate tips and/or aren’t taking advantage of the naive and vulnerable by convincing them it is in their best interest to not report accurately.

Wage theft is the largest and most common category of theft in the US, after all.

The only real solution is a general strike of all wage staff that prevents these businesses from operating until things change. But that would require massive unionization efforts before it would even be remotely possible.

The Business Plot never ended, they just regrouped. All those fuckers involved should have been hung.

The way to fight it isn’t a FDR-style party that will just give concessions to staunch the momentum of the working class, which was rallying behind communist ideology through unionization efforts, that was threatening the capitalist status quo at the time. That status quo is the entire root of the problem. The only way to fight it is to dismantle the system that gives them their power and build something new, not to continue enabling the very systems that keep us on our knees.

As a Louisiana resident. I feel ya neighbor.

No. They are actually that dumb, mate.

I’ve never worked Helpdesk. I have just dealt with the general public routinely throughout my life. Goddamn, it might be just the state I live in but the people here are fucking stupid. Consistently.

Remember, there are also just dumb people who never call because they don’t interact with a computer to such an extent that they ever run into problems they need to call about. Those people are as tech literate as a rock and they are everywhere.

As someone in wildlife conservation, this doesn’t work for everyone. For me, it just makes me hate talking to people. They will be confidently wrong and nothing you say will convince them otherwise. Doesn’t help that I live in one of the worst educated states in the union.

Also, the 'tism puts me at a disadvantage out the gate. So I might be biased.

The average person is incredibly dumb.

is that when prompted with something they don’t know, they will spit out some randome bullshit rather than say they don’t know

This is just the majority of people, not specific to any generation. Our minds are predisposed to use inductive reasoning to explain the world around us. We see something new and our brain immediately begins to make inferences based on prior information we believe we know (I say it this way cause our memories are incredibly faulty) that we think is relevant or comparable.

It’s essentially the Dunning Kruger effect: we think we know more than we do and, because of this, believe we can simply assume correctly about other things we know nothing about.

It’s an incredibly bad habit that is supposed to be trained out of us through our education systems but we all know how incredibly faulty those systems are.

I’m assuming they mean “Normal” as in “the general public being completely oblivious to the inner workings of the things they utilize in their daily lives”, not “people going back to having an easier time with tech”.

Tone down the misogyny bud. You’re oozing it.

That or just an indictment of how pervasive homophobia and xenophobia was in the zeitgeist of that era.

“Aliens are different, so they must be wanting to do bad things to us ^cause it is what I would do in their shoes^ What are some bad things they could be doing to us? Sticking things up our butts ^which is something I’m terrified of happening to me, cause what if I enjoy it and it makes me gay!^”

Not everyone who supports gun rights are right-wing idiots.

Who was it again that said “Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary”?