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by kktkti9 1784 days ago
You don’t think Amazon would notice orders not coming in?

Google wouldn’t notice code not being checked in?

Call centers wouldn’t notice Q’s backing up?

No one would notice if Reddit’s front page was days old?

Commerce now relies on people being at computers daily at scale.

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Amazon and Google will notice but your local news station will not. Without press coverage forcing the company to negotiate employees have very little bargaining power.
You seem to be of the opinion the stoppage of e-commerce supply chains would be a quiet little event no one would notice?

I don’t care whose grandpa did what 80 years ago. I don’t owe deference to a figurative identity they want to carry around if it’s also literally abusive to the species as a whole.

Industrialist power is a privilege, not a right.