In a general sense, the difference between a regular workplace with a union and a worker co-op is that the company is, in part, managed and/or owned by the workers themselves. There’s varying degrees of this, but the best (and unfortunately least common) co-ops elect their managers. It’s my opinion that electing managers is a crucial part of a worker owned economy, but a union is still needed to represent the workers.
Whenever we got a minor injury like on our knee, he would tell us “I can hurt the other one so you can’t tell which hurts more”
When we would go fishing, he always ended up sitting on a “barking spider”
The one I borrowed from him to great effect is “beer has water in it” whenever he was told to drink water
A lot of people here are giving various answers, and that’s for 2 reasons. You asked a very loaded question in a lemmy instance that started with an explicitly socialist bend, and you’re essentially asking people about very personal reasons they hold a political belief.
Everyone’s political beliefs are shaped by the conditions of their life. For example, I grew up poor on a rural farm in the Midwest of the US. Over time due to various things, I had several life situations impact my views on politics and the world. I started to learn things, things that didn’t make sense, things that challenged my world view, things that I knew were wrong but didn’t know why they happened. Eventually, I rejected liberalism and needed to find something else. That something else came in the form of a walkout at my workplace. I was thrust into the labor movement. Now I’m an anarcho-syndicalist (I believe all hierarchy is bad including governments, and the people should govern themselves through unions and other forms of organizing).
This is a very, very brief description of my life from when I was born to literally right now, and how it impacted my beliefs. This process of life impacting personal political beliefs is called our “material conditions”. People may have similar material conditions and completely disagree, or drastically different material conditions and agree on everything. More and more Americans are seeing and feeling the dramatic impacts of capitalism and the power of a few people on the top. That is driving people both to the anticapitalist left and to the fascist alt-right. Whatever reasons you read here, know that they’re justifications for their material conditions causing them to take a radical position.
They didn’t transition immediately, and yes there was significant opposition to capitalism during the fuedal era. Just like there was significant opposition to fuedalism from absolute monarchy, and to absolute monarchy from anarcho-primitivism. However, monarchies eventually saw that their options were either changing modes of production or lose power all-together.
Laziness does not exist. It was a “sin” invented by slaveholding societies under what we call today “the protestant work ethic”. Capitalism and socialism are incompatible systems. Socialism is the economic means of production being owned by the workers. Capitalism is the economic means of production being privately owned by individuals. I don’t mean to be rude, but this is a very uninformed take.
I never had an account that was properly banned, but I got banned from a sub for police. After Amir Locke was murdered by police, I was in the sub looking through some posts. On a meme calling the outrage over his murder overblown, I told a verified LEO that he was not the judge. Permaban within 5 minutes
Video game companies. I don’t feel like I need to explain this one, but some extra shittyness to digest: less than a year after forming, the Activision QA union has filed at least 1 ULP for illegal termination