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4 hours agoWe will. It will not matter. Congress will likely be powerless by that point. Or a large portion of the Democratic party will align with the fascist policies by then as their donors place more pressure on them. We know how much democrats love to “reach across the isle”.
Keeping up the illusion of democracy is the one of the most important things for the bourgeoisie to maintain. They will go through the charades for sure.
It’s more important that people see through the charades of our system. I’m hoping that starts happening more.
I feel like everyone is waiting for a “moment” to get them off their couch. By the time that moment happens it’s already too late.
The problem here is that the relationship is alienated from the person actually being an asshole. Under wage labor the customer and the employee are both a part of the same class. They both work wage jobs and both have to deal with the frustrations of those jobs.
The one sense of “freedom” that the wage laborers feel is how they spend their money. They are alienated from the actual material impacts of their work. They are offered only a wage and given no incentive to form a relationship with their place of work beyond the paycheck.
So their entire expression of their labor is based upon their consumption and how they spend their earned wages. This is why we have a disconnect between two wage owners. They are both frustrated with the “laws” that govern their consumption and their labor.
The Domino’s employee is frustrated because the customer is making his labor more difficult. He just wants to do the least amount of labor for his pay and ensure his employment is secure.
The Domino’s customer is frustrated because the employee has no control over the means of production. He cannot verbally tell the “owner” of the business his frustrations.
They are both alienated from the beneficiary of the labor and the consumption. It frustrates both of them.
I would say it is one of the most “human” feelings we can have. It is one of the most conflicting parts of capitalism that contridicts human nature.
We want to share the products of our labor, see the beneficiaries of it, and gain praise for it. Our current economic systems are in direct contradiction of this.
Which is why you’ll find people in this thread siding with both the employee and the customer. When the real asshole is the dude deciding garlic sauce should be 50 cents because it makes a line go up on a graph. The same asshole that hasn’t set foot in a Domino’s pizza in their entire life.
Edit: One assumption here is that both these people are wage laborers. The nonwage laborer often has a different reason for being an asshole to employees. I have never heard “wagie” as a negative thing until now. I kinda assumed it was almost a “solidarity” term and less so derogatory. But I assumed wrong.
But even so. The wage laborer can see themselves in a different position as a “consumer” and ignore their own class position when they spend their wage. It is their only time to “be the boss”.