Bernie Ecclestoned@sh.itjust.works to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agoit's weird that we are prepared to die for democracy, yet willingly enter dictatorships daily for work and spend the majority of our waking lives with people we vaguely knowmessage-squaremessage-square157fedilinkarrow-up1458arrow-down1105
arrow-up1353arrow-down1message-squareit's weird that we are prepared to die for democracy, yet willingly enter dictatorships daily for work and spend the majority of our waking lives with people we vaguely knowBernie Ecclestoned@sh.itjust.works to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agomessage-square157fedilink
minus-squareEarthwormjim91@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24arrow-down2·10 months agoThe overlap of people willing to let themselves be beat down and exploited at work, and the people that would actually fight and die for democracy is slim to none.
minus-squareBernie Ecclestoned@sh.itjust.worksOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·10 months agoResource extraction companies are notoriously bad employers. I’d bet there’s more of an overlap in those sort of jobs.
The overlap of people willing to let themselves be beat down and exploited at work, and the people that would actually fight and die for democracy is slim to none.
Resource extraction companies are notoriously bad employers. I’d bet there’s more of an overlap in those sort of jobs.