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A place to discuss positive changes that can make work more equitable, and to vent about current practices. We are NOT against work; we just want the fruits of our labor to be recognized better.
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- All workers must be paid a living wage for their labor.
- Income inequality is the main cause of lower living standards.
- Workers must join together and fight back for what is rightfully theirs.
- We must not be divided and conquered. Workers gain the most when they focus on unifying issues.
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- Higher wages for underpaid workers.
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The fact alone that leadership came in, declared that experienced staff were “phenomenally talented assholes”, forced them all out, and pushed LITERAL DEFECTIVE PLANES into the sky should be the goddamn electric chair.
And anyone who owns Boeing stock should have to pay any profit they’ve made back into a public fund to go to public education in America.
The rich are done with this place and they’re squeezing it dry before they let it rot. Happening everywhere.
Before the 80s the top marginal tax rate was obscene, so as a CEO or exec the way you'd extract value from your company was to make sure it'd last a hundred years and keep paying you the whole time. Reputation was of the utmost importance.
Now it makes more sense to just cash out whenever you can. We've changed the incentive structure. Who the duck cares if the planes stay in the sky six years from now, you'll be out by then and it'll be someone else's problem. There's so much money to be made by taking existing reputation and cashing it in.
The best part is that in many industries, especially in software, you can fire people now and won't really feel the effects for years. You can take the money now, and maybe try to deal with the problems caused when they come up.
As someone who has worked in safety-critical aerospace in the past, and who works in biotech nowadays on projects that fall under FDA purview: the flagrant and willful violation of safety regulations that is abundantly apparent here - let alone the gross engineering ethics violations - simply beggars belief.
Fucking beancounters are killing everything. I just want to build cool shit that works good, helps people, and (I thought this part went without saying) doesn’t accidentally kill people. Please let me just do that.