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We're just meat bags with terrible sensory perception and reasoning skills. This is the reason I am more open to claims of "no reality" and the like. Plato's cave but no one sees the whole picture

If the property is adjacent to a gentrified neighborhood but not yet pricey, the landlord can degrade service until the low income tenants leave, renovate the property, and charge new gentrified prices as well. I know of a couple buildings in the DMV area that were doing this within the last 10 years

I think workers rights has less to do with automation and more to do with forcing exploitative bosses to negotiate via collective action but what do I know

I don't think it's necessarily union control related at all. From an industry standpoint it makes some sense to have a geographic center so that companies who serve the industry have a place to go and find customers, network, etc. I think in this regard it's largely a spontaneous phenomenon more than a coordinated decision. "Birds of a feather."

The other replies to this are interesting though and it's not all one thing, distributed decision making can be rationalized after the fact any number of ways

I think the difference is signal is private, no? Parler people are just airing racist and threatening shit out in the open. I would personally rather it take place in such private online places instead of in front of everyone.

Moral Competence 6 years ago

GP describes a situation I observed working in non profit, not habitat for humanity but something similar.

They didn't have much to show for their efforts but it seems to be a popular strategy. I haven't given them my time or effort since leaving.