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

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[–] bigfish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 126 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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).

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 54 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

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.

[–] tacosanonymous@mander.xyz 32 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Union is underselling their mafia racket.

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 weeks ago

Its a big gang, and youre not in it.

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[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 93 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Unions were the compromise between violence against the capital from the working class.

[–] ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 16 points 3 weeks 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.

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Too bad companies spent decades demoting and crushing them. Paid money for it, even.

[–] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

The same Pinkertons that were hired over a century ago to bust unions, are still around today for a reason.

[–] Chee_Koala@lemmy.world 51 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] Beacon@fedia.io 47 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

More like "Old school problems require old school solutions"

[–] JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Wooden shoes are so uncomfortable though

[–] nocturne@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 weeks ago

Toss em in something with gears to make them more comfortable.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Not a modern problem. Not a modern solution. Fuck Dave Chappelle.

[–] Fiona@lemmy.blahaj.zone 34 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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!

[–] sober_monk@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

I've said that on Reddit and ~~people~~ bots got mad at me.

FTFY.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 31 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] Stitch0815@feddit.org 11 points 3 weeks ago

sparkling storage shed

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 28 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 3 weeks ago

That's right, kids: try it at work!

[–] lena@gregtech.eu 23 points 3 weeks ago

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

Yeah! Try it at a factory

[–] thenextguy@lemmy.world 21 points 3 weeks 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.

[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 13 points 3 weeks 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 🤔

[–] inari@piefed.zip 11 points 3 weeks ago

Usually what the owner class does is push for tougher laws instead

[–] minorkeys@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe 7 points 3 weeks ago

Oh no how unfortunate.

[–] Cris_Citrus@piefed.zip 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Finally, a sensible market solution /s

[–] x0x7@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Headofthebored@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Warehouses can burn whether they have robots in them or not lmao

[–] Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 weeks ago

you'd be replaced with robots even sooner

[–] PissingIntoTheWind@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Burn baby burn. Disco inferno! Burn baby burn!

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