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Samsung strike: “I understand if the company is doing poorly they can’t give us our bonuses, but the fact that the executives took home huge bonuses last year, I can’t understand.” (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Title speaks for itself, nothing to comment.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You wrote a comment.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago (1 children)

world explodes due to this absolutely unfathomable paradox

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Yet the world exists unexploded. I'm starting to think you are a liar.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I will comment

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Reminds me of the Jesus and Satan posts where it's like "my child will like and share!" and "my child will keep scrolling!"

I will comment too!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I will Spartacus

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

You made this comment so I don't have to.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

[–] [email protected] 48 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Oh, we all understand perfectly well. We can no longer abide.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You would be surprised how much abuse people will tolerate to have some semblance of "peace" in their life.

You're in the class war, even if you don't fight back.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

"accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed." TJ

[–] [email protected] -3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

We can no longer abide

*Continues to abide for the rest of their life*

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

I mean, industry after industry is going on strike over shit like this. Pretty sure that's the opposite of abiding.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 months ago

Good for them.

Don't be a scab.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Capitalism.

Understand yet?

[+] [email protected] -7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

You don’t understand paying people as little as you can, while extracting as much as you can for yourself? You don’t understand allowing people to starve because profits are more important? You don’t understand bombing children because a couple companies need some new money?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

He only understand bootlicking

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Well, that's what I expect when I work for someone else. Even as a business owner, why would you want to pay your employees more than you need to? And you're actually getting upset that some big corporate company does this? Unreal.

You can always get another job that pays more, start your own business, or, as we see here, go on strike. Also, I don't understand where you got 'bombing children' from. Even if you're right, I really don't know why you think it would be different under any other economic system, but go on.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

At this point, I think the right side of the political spectrum is a different way to describe the left side of the Dunning-Kruger chart.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Good point.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Society can't function when people only care about themselves, countries with robust social safetynets are happier. For all the GDP and mega yachts we generate, we're 23rd.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Happiness_Report

And have the thing we crow about as our thing, when we're pathetic for that in the developed world, upward mobility. We're 27th.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Social_Mobility_Index

Our culture hyper-individualism is quite honestly inhuman, it's a perverse point of pride to have about this cesspool of greed and rewarded sociopathic behavior, yet many do, smh.

Capitalism must be heavily regulated straight jacked to work for society if it is to work at all. We subsist in service to our economy here.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

I'm confused by this picture. Why are they standing in formation? And why are there only signs in the center?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

i wish good luck and a very successful strike to them