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[MS Paint Gigachad]

While I agree, this is still the Capitalist version of the It wasn't real Communism argument. Capitalism always leads to exactly this. Amusingly, I see people claim China to unfairly advantage its native businesses, and how Capitalism can't succeed in such conditions. I thought only the evil Communists wanted the entire world under Communism, so it could work. It's the same thing either way, with only minor differences.


I'm not very well-versed in this aspect of Roman history, so I will accept what I've been told here, and will still argue with it. Now, this isn't the thread for arguing about the finer points of Roman slavery, so I'll be brief and try not to mention it again for at least a few pages.

I'd rather die on a water wheel than be shot to death delivering pizzas in a bad neighborhood, or some similar death. As we know, executives never molest their employees or drive them to suicide for one reason or another. Yes, being driven to suicide by liars, while cries of my freedom drum everywhere around me, is so much better than being worked to death by more honest masters. I suppose that's my main point; did the Romans lie about slavery? Some people are obviously natural slaves, as has been mentioned already, but we live in a society that pretends otherwise, and all this really accomplishes is torturing those smart enough to see through the bullshit. I know not how realistic it was for the average Roman slave to buy his freedom, but how realistic is it for the modern American man to buy his?


In principle, sure; in actuality, how many people can afford to leave a bad job in the greatest country on Earth? In Roman society, was a farmer expected to work as hard as he could constantly, while being dragged away to endless meetings about the importance of men pretending to be women? Was any Roman ever subjected to the total surveillance to which every single one of us is subjected? Did the slave on the water wheel have Manna on his ankles telling him to work a little harder so he could meet the average slave quota, like any Amazon warehouse worker? Was the Roman slave given a fake education, so he could be a temporarily embarrassed millionaire, or the more honest no education? I think I would've learned it by now if Roman society had major unemployment issues, although I suppose the bread and circuses count.

I think I'd rather walk around delivering my master's messages than feed people poison in a McDonald's, and on the topic of McDonald's, did Roman slaves eat mass-produced poison or real food such as apples and wheat? I think I'd rather be a Roman slave than some insane man on LinkedIn who tells himself and believes that a corporation ever could be more important than his family, and I believe the average Roman worker didn't need his wife to sell herself so they could afford rent and no children like today's man, or am I wrong here?

No, I'd rather be a Roman slave than own nothing and be happy.

Spoiler: Roman history

Slaves had no rights, couldn't buy their freedom and were literal property.

Also, that article you linked about the suicides goes into no detail about what happened, other than employees being giving humiliating jobs. You know what they could do that slaves can't do? Get up and leave, organize a protest, anything short of suicide, really.

No, they had a task master that would whip them or otherwise physically abuse them, and if they felt so inclined, kill them.

Many slaves were better educated than the average Roman simply because they were the survivors of a lost war, such as the Greeks & Carthaginians.

Some were given trade educations where Roman citizens were given real, general educations, so in a way yes, they were given 'fake' educations.

They certainly weren't given standardized Roman educations guaranteeing the ability to read, right or count.

Yes, they did have major unemployment issues, due to slaves taking all the jobs Roman soldiers were promised upon their return from war. It caused civil unrest in 121 BC. Slavery actually deepened the divide between elite aristocrats who bought the land of bankrupt middle class Roman soldiers who couldn't compete with slave farms. Slavery completely disrupted the economics of Rome.

You know what modern America has in abundance which Ancient Rome doesn't? Beef, poultry, pork, meat. Americans are significantly better fed than the Ancient Romans.

Roman slaves had no rights and couldn't marry, and if they had family already they would have their children stolen from them. Lots of Romans were rendered homeless due to the slave trade in Rome.

Rome was not this shining beacon of what makes for a perfect society, it had constant economic problems because it was a nascent nation and more or less stayed that way for centuries, pulling amateur moves like inflating their currency to pay debts, restricting Roman citizens from wielding arms or letting in strangers from foreign lands only to get sacked a day later.

Rome had immense potential which it regularly squandered only to end up in a cycle of repeated crises where it needed to be rescued by one lone Roman general who knew what he was doing only to be stabbed to death by his own guard to let the national rot begin again.

Roman slaves owned nothing and were very much unhappy.

Chill out buddies, the objective of this thread is not to prove that romans had it worse or better, it's to prove that the modern guys are dumb.

 

[Catloaf]

5 pages and no mentions of Joshua Fluke or Aaron Clarey yet? Interesting.

Yeah, I took some inspiration from Joshua Fluke for the thread. He makes good videos about corpo cucks without being too much of r/antiwork cuck.

 

[DumbDude43]

So this is what "quiet quitting" is? Doing your job to the letter? Why is it called "quitting" at all? "Quiet quitting" sounds like it means you just don't show up to work anymore.

it means malicious compliance. you follow the letter of the law, but not the spirit. you act as lazy as humanly possible without getting fired, half-ass things wherever you can, deliver results that are just barely passable, etc.

 

[No. 7 cat]

Booze is more effective. you are going to stay after hours with no compensation, but after 10 pm you can drink (your own booze ) because the company is just that cool. This only sort of works on very young people, even retards realize whats wrong eventually but is amazing the sort of bullshit that gets masked as "cool company culture"

Some or many banks or law firms do or did that, work for hours more and then socialize hours more with people I don't really want to be around unless bakhshesh be given in some quantity. It is worse than a cheap and nasty bribe. People who do not want become a 'bad fit' with 'company culture' and so get pushed out, fired, forced to resign. Also in a strict and old fashioned sense, someone on Linkedin is a corporate serf of some sort not a professional, no matter what they might be paid. It's no Freemason / Oddfellows Lodge

 

[Trig.Point]

I really hate that LinkedIn is almost required for tech positions these days. The recruiters at my company do not accept resumes in the traditional way - got to have a LinkedIn profile.

I've found if you're not on LinkedIn, people that are, tend to take it as a personal criticism when they find out. It's like a fucking cult.

 

[$80 Nude Haircut]

it means malicious compliance. you follow the letter of the law, but not the spirit. you act as lazy as humanly possible without getting fired, half-ass things wherever you can, deliver results that are just barely passable, etc.

People don't care about what they do & aren't motivated so they do exactly what's asked of them & get paid for it. This concept is older than the entire United States. This is also exacerbated by a demoralized society, people rapidly losing the ability to afford even a basic existence, perpetual fear-mongering, doubt or lack of faith in the machinations of society, lack of hope, paranoia, rootlessness, etc.

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

I've found if you're not on LinkedIn, people that are tend to take it as a personal criticism when they find out. It's like a fucking cult.

happens with alll social media, when you say you don't have any profile on any site people get upset because they assume you must be lying and just saying that because you don't want to add them. It has happened a lot to me.

Some or many banks or law firms do or did that, work for hours more and then socialize hours more with people I don't really want to be around unless bakhshesh be given in some quantity. It is worse than a cheap and nasty bribe. People who do not want become a 'bad fit' with 'company culture' and so get pushed out, fired, forced to resign. Also in a strict and old fashioned sense, someone on Linkedin is a corporate serf of some sort not a professional, no matter what they might be paid. It's no Freemason / Oddfellows Lodge

Peer pressure and cohercion. Is like a poster said a while ago, that is like an abusive relationship where you are constantly gaslighted and put into akward positions that reduces your autonomy.


Most of the mental drain comes from the oversocialization, more than just doing the work, if it already feels meaningless that adds the extra layer of negative feedback loop.

 

[Big Nasty]

Have encountered someone who said that employees should preferably receive more negative feedback than positive. Otherwise they will get complacent and the quality of their work output will decrease.

 

[Meat Target]

Have encountered someone who said that employees should preferably receive more negative feedback than positive. Otherwise they will get complacent and the quality of their work output will decrease.

When I was a line supervisor at UPS, they expected us to write up a worker for some safety violation every day.

I fucking hated it. Felt like the biggest asshole on the planet.

 

[MS Paint Gigachad]

When I was a line supervisor at UPS, they expected us to write up a worker for some safety violation every day.

I fucking hated it. Felt like the biggest asshole on the planet.

This reminds me of (of all things) a comment on a YouTube video about politics and the Russian army during the Ukraine War.
This is the video:

How Politics Destroys Armies: Politics, Factionalism & Russia's war in Ukraine

Sponsored by Private Internet Access: https://www.piavpn.com/PerunDescription:Militaries, like any organisation, share a basic vulnerability - they're made u...

youtu.be

The comment is in the attached screenshot.

Tldr, the guy was talking about how incentives destroyed the organization.
>be factory worker
>facility is run well
>few safety violations
>boss demands reports be made, or no bonus
>start reporting bullshit like coffee spills
>boss doesn't like bullshit reports
>start being sloppy
>safety violations start happening
>non-bullshit reports start flowing in
>facility now not run well

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

Have encountered someone who said that employees should preferably receive more negative feedback than positive. Otherwise they will get complacent and the quality of their work output will decrease.

Because everyone knows the key to focus is panic.

 

[Alex Yiik]

This reminds me of (of all things) a comment on a YouTube video about politics and the Russian army during the Ukraine War.
This is the video:

How Politics Destroys Armies: Politics, Factionalism & Russia's war in Ukraine

Sponsored by Private Internet Access: https://www.piavpn.com/PerunDescription:Militaries, like any organisation, share a basic vulnerability - they're made u...

youtu.be

The comment is in the attached screenshot.

Tldr, the guy was talking about how incentives destroyed the organization.
>be factory worker
>facility is run well
>few safety violations
>boss demands reports be made, or no bonus
>start reporting bullshit like coffee spills
>boss doesn't like bullshit reports
>start being sloppy
>safety violations start happening
>non-bullshit reports start flowing in
>facility now not run well

That reminds me of grade school when our teacher wouldn't let us go to recess until we picked up 5 pieces of trash off the ground. Except sometimes the floor was clean and I couldn't find any, so I just ripped up some paper and showed that off.

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

That reminds me of grade school when our teacher wouldn't let us go to recess until we picked up 5 pieces of trash off the ground. Except sometimes the floor was clean and I couldn't find any, so I just ripped up some paper and showed that off.

textbook example of a perverse incentive, or why centrally planned economies don't work.

 

[Big Nasty]

There's probably going to be a lot of overlapping between this thread and the workplace horror one.

 

[MS Paint Gigachad]

There's probably going to be a lot of overlapping between this thread and the workplace horror one.

uhhh, please link it?
Anyway since im too lazy to go on linkedin and hunt for materiel, I've decided to add bestoflinkedin's last post.

Imagine thinking not being able to piss is somehow inspiring, lol.

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

uhhh, please link it?
Anyway since im too lazy to go on linkedin and hunt for materiel, I've decided to add bestoflinkedin's last post.
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Imagine thinking not being able to piss is somehow inspiring, lol.

Someone's whose title is Freelance Search Engine Optimization Specialist is the exact sort of person who should never be allowed to piss.

 

[MS Paint Gigachad]

Someone's whose title is Freelance Search Engine Optimization Specialist is the exact sort of person who should never be allowed to piss.

I raise: (Serial) Entrepreneur; thought leader; author/speaker; [mention that they dropped out]; "Coach" (other than sports); "Sales"

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

I raise: (Serial) Entrepreneur; thought leader; author/speaker; [mention that they dropped out]; "Coach" (other than sports); "Sales"

Those shouldn't be allowed to piss or shit.

 

[TapewormSalesman]

I'm surprised the OG Walmart shuffle has not been posted

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

I'm surprised the OG Walmart shuffle has not been posted

Because nobody actually wanted or liked to do that aside from the Retards they hire to push carts.