Remember, kids: don’t try this at home!

  • Fiona@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    23 hours ago

    I’ve said that on Reddit and people got mad at me.

    A single warehouse burning because of low wages is like a single healthcare CEO getting shot: Funny to read about, but ultimately not going to change much.

    Turn it into a monthly thing, and it becomes a revolutionary act that will change things!

  • Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    Actually it’s only a warehouse if it comes from the warehouse region of France. Anything else is just a “storage shed”

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    1 day ago

    It’s like the best way to prevent police brutality and murder: simply make them individually liable for damages and require them to carry insurance for it. Bad actions make you uninsurable, and the rest of your department more risky (expensive).

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      1 day ago

      Ironically the reason we have this problem is because the armed guards of capital are one of the only jobs that still have strong unions.

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      23 hours ago

      Every few generations everyone seems to forget the existing social contracts exist for reason, and that reason is never the benevolence of the plutocrats.

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    1 day ago

    Hypothetically, I really hope this happens. Hypothetically, like once a week for the next year.

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      18 hours ago

      Right. A more likely one is that having staff in a building at all are a liability and so all these warehouses are moving to robots. There will be an oversaturation of warehouse workers vs sites still using them, and so these fires are just going to bring wages lower.

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    1 day ago

    I’m not a lawyer, but this sounds perfectly feasible to me. So insurance companies simply choose to not treat low wages as a risk factor. I wonder why 🤔

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    1 day ago

    So they run without insurance, lobby to mitigate their liability and the conditions of workplaces plummets.

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    1 day ago

    If they used to be houses, then they are were-houses.

    If it used to be a house, then it’s a was-house.