Remember, kids: don’t try this at home!
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!
I’ve said that on Reddit and
peoplebots got mad at me.FTFY.
Remember, kids: don’t try this at home!
Yeah! Try it at a factory
you’d be replaced with robots even sooner
I it seriously got to that point those robots would have to be fireproof.
Unions were the compromise between violence against the capital from the working class.
Every few generations everyone seems to forget the existing social contracts exist for reason, and that reason is never the benevolence of the plutocrats.
Too bad companies spent decades demoting and crushing them. Paid money for it, even.
The same Pinkertons that were hired over a century ago to bust unions, are still around today for a reason.
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).
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.
Union is underselling their mafia racket.
Actually it’s only a warehouse if it comes from the warehouse region of France. Anything else is just a “storage shed”
sparkling storage shed
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 🤔
Not a modern problem. Not a modern solution. Fuck Dave Chappelle.
More like “Old school problems require old school solutions”
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If the cost of keeping humans is higher than the cost of automating, they’ll just automate the process. Or have the place ran by wire, where humans pilot lifts remotely.
You can burn down an automated warehouse too.
There were only 8 people in that whole warehouse when it burned. It clear they already cut staff to an insanely low level. If they could have automated those 8 jobs away, they already would have.
Stop preemptively giving up your power by assuming you have none.
Ironically, arson is a felony and it’s unlikely that insurers cover such events that are due to criminal acts.
Insurers are likely not paying out anything.
This is only the case when one intentionally burns down their own property.
What? No. Arson usually covered on standard policies. Most likely what would happen in the scenario portrayed here is that insurance would go up and future insurance contracts would specifically exclude arson / vandalism.
What are you smoking? Insurance pays for damage caused by criminal activities
