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[–] bigfish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 151 points 5 days 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 67 points 5 days 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 35 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Union is underselling their mafia racket.

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 days ago

Its a big gang, and youre not in it.

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[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 112 points 5 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 18 points 5 days 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 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

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

[–] Fiona@lemmy.blahaj.zone 45 points 5 days 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 9 points 5 days ago

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

FTFY.

[–] Chee_Koala@lemmy.world 59 points 5 days ago (2 children)
[–] Beacon@fedia.io 55 points 5 days ago (2 children)

More like "Old school problems require old school solutions"

[–] JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Wooden shoes are so uncomfortable though

[–] nocturne@slrpnk.net 6 points 5 days ago

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

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 12 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

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

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 43 points 5 days 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 13 points 5 days ago

sparkling storage shed

[–] lena@gregtech.eu 29 points 5 days ago

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

Yeah! Try it at a factory

[–] harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 5 days ago

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

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 31 points 5 days ago

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

[–] thenextguy@lemmy.world 22 points 5 days 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.

[–] inari@piefed.zip 17 points 5 days ago

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

[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 14 points 5 days 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 🤔

[–] minorkeys@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago

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

[–] Cris_Citrus@piefed.zip 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Finally, a sensible market solution /s

[–] x0x7@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

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.

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe 7 points 5 days ago

Oh no how unfortunate.

[–] VAK@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

The ESG that the right deserves

[–] Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

you'd be replaced with robots even sooner

[–] DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz 1 points 4 days ago

I it seriously got to that point those robots would have to be fireproof.

Burn baby burn. Disco inferno! Burn baby burn!

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