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Sun 17 May 2020 17:09

@mwleeds When politicians say they want to restart “he economy” they’re not talking about opening up pubs and bowling allies. If that’s what they meant, they’d say it

Sun 17 May 2020 15:32

@consent_factory no your lack of charity comes from the fact that you’re an asshole. You know that’s not what I meant but you wanted to vent anyway, and since you don’t see me as a person but as some abstract celebrity, I was a legitimate punching-bag.

Sun 17 May 2020 15:00

@consent_factory fine double down on your own lack of charity. If that’s what you think of me, maybe you shouldn’t follow me at all, okay? I suggest you unfollow.

Sun 17 May 2020 14:55

@JohnnyHoncho11 @consent_factory well if you’d never read it and also felt some reason to give the tweet the most uncharitable possible reading – since later in the thread I make clear I’m not saying no useful jobs have been idled, etc etc.

Sun 17 May 2020 14:14

@MattTGrant Power. The highest-paid workers are usually administrators who have the power to keep themselves on retainer even while sitting at home doing nothing, while those working, say, for fast-food restaurants that were shut down were simply fired.

Sun 17 May 2020 14:05

@Alan851603 @leftyjew ok, if you enjoy talking to people you think of as “tiny angry morons,” who’s to tell you who you should or shouldn’t talk to? But of course the same applies to me. I prefer not to.

Sun 17 May 2020 13:55

@Dan_ny_Boy I’m not an historian of such matters but my impression doctors were more likely to make you worse until maybe 1875, then with the discovery of hygiene, sterilisation, standards improved very rapidly for exactly this sort of thing, now it’s starting to turn around the other way

Sun 17 May 2020 13:53

@mwleeds Sure. But faced with the choice between 1. author has completely changed his previously stated position, and 2. author is abbreviating in a tweet, it seems a bit odd to assume the first.

Sun 17 May 2020 13:32

@chlodulfmaximi1 yes and insofar as it is necessary, it’s still happening, because the logistics, etc, is being planned (mostly by people working 15-30 minutes a day from home).

Sun 17 May 2020 09:41

@nikadubrovsky @WASPI_Campaign no mostly they didn’t, since those over 70 voted like 80% for the Tories.

Sun 17 May 2020 09:36

@Alan851603 @leftyjew Sane people exist. Even on twitter. One approach is just to mute or block all the angry morons.

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Sun 17 May 2020 09:35

@PeterAr18228396 though I imagine a professor in the school of management would be the person least likely to acknowledge such realities

Sun 17 May 2020 09:34

@PeterAr18228396 in reality, exactly the opposite is what happened. I wrote a brief half-jokey column on the subject in an obscure mag years ago & the response from office workers especially was so overwhelmingly positive I ended up having to write a book

Sat 16 May 2020 18:14

@deMariana8 @theNewsfox actually this is a common misconception. In the US for example private universities have seen twice the growth of administrator-per-professor as have public ones.

Sat 16 May 2020 18:12

@mwleeds I entirely agree. In fact I was careful to point this out in the original article and repeatedly in the book

Sat 16 May 2020 14:47

@maraboshi99 @Boo_urns357 he’s trying to make it sound like they provide houses but of course he can’t say it outright because he knows that’s construction

Sat 16 May 2020 14:45

@jeffjarvis so much “productivity” is artificially produced for its own sake, for instance by making products that will break or be useless in a year or two when you could easily make them to last. This is literally destroying the planet’s ecosystems

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Sat 16 May 2020 14:43

@notmobydick a lot of Marxists get confused by this: if your work is productive of surplus value that isn’t ipso facto a good thing.

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Sat 16 May 2020 13:37

@djhanson_87 which demonstrates really is just a system of power. Managers decide how resources/money is allocated. Who do they decide is most essential & should be most rewarded? Surprise! Other managers!

Sat 16 May 2020 02:28

@Saturnino_85 Historical materialism is based in liberalism. Anarchism has been around forever.