Notices by catdad 💃✨ (tcql@octodon.social), page 24

reposted a revised version of a short little story i did way back on my cybre.space account ->

https://lunarpunk.space/catdad/the-moon-is-lonely

@guerrillarain does this ever end up with like, the CEO of this 5-person company, who really shouldn't be giving opinions about this thing, coming in and dropping an Executive Decision that ever single other person hates, but they think is genius? because.... that's my experience with small company nitpicking

@Jo ours is just backlit black until the chromecast starts up 😂

@zigg @walruslifestyle @garbados

"classics"
"recently returned"
"toots by genre"

@panamapauper "the birds work for the bourgeoisie"

@walruslifestyle @zigg @garbados

wow this is giving me ideas for a pretty goofy novelty social media site

@zigg @garbados look, they can only afford so many copies of the same book, and, even if they had more, it's a lot of work in re-shelving if they just loan out their ebooks willy-nilly

@garbados 💯 okay thanks for taking the trip down this bunny trail with me

@garbados oh yea, thanks

i think i see some validity in management. bike-shedding is real, so sometimes having people to make executive decisions is great. BUT i think that's a position that requires initial consensus of some sort (do we all agree this "manager" is a good representative for our interests), and a person in that position has to be looking out for the people around them

hi this is catdad here to say that the fact that the greedy nature of capitalism insists that small businesses must always be growing or else wither is fuckin toxic

open your etsy store and if you make $5/mo that's still $5/mo more than you had before and it doesn't matter if you never make more and you have to refuse orders from people.

there's nothing wrong with creating what you can and no more

thanks for coming to my ted talk

@garbados

but in the case where fear/mistrust of workers exploiting you is _maybe_ why you're scared of your workers, i think that leads to some immediate questions about your responsibility in:

1) how you hired so many people you don't feel like you can trust
2) whether you're committing to too much scale too fast, which is why you're barely afloat and can't treat workers better ...

@garbados AND this is of course charitably interpreting corporate hesitancy to support workers as "mistrust" and not "outright neglect in favor of profit".... i think the former may actually be a true motive for some smaller organizations who are barely afloat, who still get scared of union organizing / employees demanding more

but the latter is clearly the motive for companies the size of amazon who are making ridiculous amounts of money

@garbados it's _almost_ like extremely uneven distribution of wealth leads to the assumption that other people are trying to take advantage of you when they tell you you aren't doing enough for them

@staticsafe oooo i'm finally about to start The Three Body Problem sometime this week! 👀

@tom why is this so good

@chosafine one of us