Whats good about unionizing college admins and journos? Doesn't obviously lower status
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Replying to @eigenrobot @turrible_tao
do unions work for intellectual labor professions? collective bargaining, to a large degree, depends on the fungibility of workers doesn't it? (I know what we all think of the intellect of journos and admins, just work with me here)
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there isn't a lawyer's union or a doctor's union or a programmer's union and there are big compensation differences between individuals in these professions but that's not perceived as a problem
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I understand that the incipient Marxism that has infected a lot of lefties recently is driving them towards wanting to unionize but it seems like a domain mismatch. they simply AREN'T the same kind of workers that Marx was addressing in Das Kap.
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Replying to @danlistensto @eigenrobot
i doubt even DSA ppl know marx very well
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Replying to @turrible_tao @eigenrobot
they've probably read it more thoroughly than I have but it's an open question as to whether or not they understand it in practical terms or just latch onto it as a type of catechism
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Replying to @danlistensto @eigenrobot
i think they just latch on to it and are vaguely pro union and far leftist seems like enough ingredients for it to be possible i dunno
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Replying to @turrible_tao @eigenrobot
it might be possible. skilled professions like these are suppose to operate with a _guild_ which is a very different type of organization than a union.
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Replying to @danlistensto @eigenrobot
i doubt they are thinking in those terms or these things happen in terms of ought or consideration
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Replying to @turrible_tao @eigenrobot
yeah, I agree with you, but c'est la vie. I really do wish our journos were better though. it would help the situation. we got a whole heap of bad journos though and we're in a big steaming pile as a result.
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gulag all the people who want to be journalists rather than do journalism
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