Yes, I know, in my county too.

(Oh, did the fart-propulsion give it away? I’ll add the “/s” next time.)

I absolutely want to know where I shop & who I vote for with my wallet (make profit for).

If that company is shitty to workers I’ll def try to avoid it.

Worker rights endeavours arent something to hide & dilute.

And yes, the employer needs to take into account customer view too (which they do).

Yes, but usually they do it by other means as to not driving the bus (or they don’t drive the buses only for a limited time within the strike).

But countries differ a lot in regards what is basic infrastructure.

(Lol, typo, I meant doctors there, fixed.)

There are rules (strict laws with fines & prison time) to strikes depending on sectors.

Eg basic infrastructure workers (doctors, bus drivers, etc) can’t strike by not working, which I think you were referring from. I think that does makes sense otherwise innocent people can die or really suffer.

But where public’s lives aren’t at stake, the users sold def feel the strike & know what the company they are financially supporting doesn’t wasn’t to do.

But laws too can get very corrupt very quickly, eg USA presidents totally outlawing strikes on sector or per company basis (bcs pocket monies).

If my math is correct - those sick bikers are just carbo-loading & farting so much they don’t even use pedals.

(It’s the only way it would make sense.)

They are all radical cultists chairs.

Oh, no, no - that’s not what I meant at all!

Not literally any complaining (actual free speech & law protections apply), with the article as context - these are professionals acting from/on behalf of the company amplified by the money & media relations that company has (& possible political party relations).

So if I use my corp assets & relations to push out “well” precisely written points about how strikes are bad that is not at all comparable to a random person just being a bit frustrated & bitch about it. It’s deliberate, amplified, and solely for profit. And it leads to shit like when in developed countries govs/parlaments/presidents literally outlaw strikes (eg per sector even when it’s uncalled for), and the public doesn’t care.

Yes, true.
And in return held in higher regard even by average workers (perhaps not in that one specific company tho).

Yes, but ads work on all our brains & most of the time the public opinions form in regards to articles such at these (ie anti-strike without knowing the reasons, and in turn in support to political parties holding such views).

Our attitude should be that anyone complaining about strikes should be immediately excluded from society, unable to get rewarded or get a new fancy job & forced to start the career over.

Basically what we (apparently) do to people protesting against funding genocides & climate change we should be doing to people oppressing workers bcs they want profits to be higher.

Just deal with the strike, make it work without a stick or accept your business isn’t viable (or at least not with you in it).

And if you can - they’ll make sure they own your uploaded ass & are gonna make you solve AI prompts all day.

I know it’s a popular saying, but idk if it cancels shit out.
Like, try taking about dead Nazis & how good they are - feels weird bcs of all the bad shit they did.

So no, perhaps just no good Nazis.

It’s hard to tell bcs there are many options (again, like for interment & smartphones this wasn’t the only form of dependency - just what worked the best for the giants to solidify their positions, some didn’t name it, and foss lagged in market share).

Also disruptions and monopolies arent about offering something new/more/better, their aim is to get the market share to control the demand too (eg Uber was never to be profitable at first as a market competitor, they dumped capital & underplayed workforce until the taxi companies went out of business then started charging more & paying less bcs monopoly that they essentially bought - that was the plan, no investor dumps money in a company that isn’t & won’t be making money for a decade, the calculation was future profits).

Random about how AI can become mandatory: maybe a lot or communication platforms could requires AI to function (like Google services require ads). So no AI sub, no access to your chat platform of choice (unless ofc foss, like Signal, Matrix, etc).
A stupid example (at least at the moment) but megacorp apps & OSs (Android/Windows) could for example stop providing simple search (Ctrl+F) options overall unless you have AI bcs “their search is AI powered and they refuse to provide you a less then the best experience” … so now you have to manually search for a simple key word or pay AI monthly sub (+sell your data & thoughts).
This works bcs most people won’t look for alternatives or go open source.

Or maybe services from other companies (AI) will demand to speak to your AI for a simple sign up (no longer email & password and/or mfa).

Maybe there will be AI ring fenced gardens where you will need different subscriptions for services (companies) that only work with one but not the other.

Or again with the smartphones - the big manufactures (+Google) will tie functions with AI subscriptions (eg camera app, settings, desktop customisation, etc.).

We haven’t yet seen any mass monetisation, how the payment models would work, how many tiers, how high the prices, etc - but how high the prices can be is determined by how much of necessity it is. And since market entry barriers are high, and megacorps already have their gardens, they will absolutely work on how to shape the environment to make (their) AI a basic necessity.
(It’s what shareholders demand, it’s what all this money now is for - the investments are so high & the race so fierce that it doesn’t make sense unless they can squeeze their users later.)

(in a fight, right?)

Idk, umbrella asked me that, I thought it was oblivious too.

Why not fight boot-licking now?

That’s why I’m super pro-foss & anti-megacorp.

Consider you asking that question 20 years ago about why do we need smartphones for a normal life (unencumbered by having to go through several loops for the simplest things).

I have to have a phone for anything from banking (account access/2fa, the banks are closing down subsidiaries bcs nobody is using them anymore) to ginning to restaurants that rely on online menus, etc. Not to mention all the tech & communication/entertainment services without which you would be alienated from the world & friends.
(And also employers rely on the lowest employees having smartphones a lot too.)

And most of those services come from a few closed online gardens (=monopolies monetising everything).

Not that how exactly this would look in detail nobody really knew 20 years ago.

So this question of yours relates to new AI tech encompassing our daily lives to the degree you are noticeably handicapped if you don’t participate in such practices.

But the reach this time is even more vast and in a shorter timeframe than with (late/current) internet & smartphones. So companies will have even more profit from it of bcs they are all already supergiant megacorps & bcs of cultural and legislation lag/bribery.

Those things were made like that and because of that by design.

Like a neat little people hack, and all you need for it are a megacorp & some monopoly.