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   kaia (kaia@brotka.st)'s status on Thursday, 18-Apr-2024 17:59:36 JST kaia
   unpopular opinion: the majority of people work best if they have a benevolent superior who tells them what to do. most people do not want to be their own boss.
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     「セル」cell (سل) (cell@pl.ebin.zone)'s status on Thursday, 18-Apr-2024 18:00:52 JST 「セル」cell (سل)

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     @kaia problem is, benevolent superiors tend to be rare :kaia_think:
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     A Light Shining in Darkness (fzer0@nerdculture.de)'s status on Thursday, 18-Apr-2024 18:05:53 JST A Light Shining in Darkness

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     True, but most bosses tend to micromanagement to much.

     There's a personal sweet spot for every person on how much "freedom" they have at work.

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     on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ (lain@lain.com)'s status on Thursday, 18-Apr-2024 18:12:01 JST on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ

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     @kaia it's not even an opinion, it's the whole reason companies exist. If being part of somewhat hierarchical company didn't increase efficiency, everyone would be a freelancer.
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     kaia (kaia@brotka.st)'s status on Thursday, 18-Apr-2024 18:14:15 JST kaia

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     @lain but the majority of people (on the left and the right) seem to think that if only they were their own boss, they'd be happier and more efficient.
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     on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ (lain@lain.com)'s status on Thursday, 18-Apr-2024 18:16:06 JST on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ

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     @kaia they could be right, most don't try.
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     :marseyloadingneon: m0xEE :marseyloading: (m0xee@breloma.m0xee.net)'s status on Thursday, 18-Apr-2024 18:17:05 JST :marseyloadingneon: m0xEE :marseyloading:

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     @kaia
     I think a lot of people might want to be their own boss — because it sounds cool. On paper.
     They are however not wired to be productive like that, the kind of "flexibility" they can come up with is less work more play.
     But people lacking self-discipline doesn't mean they should be forced into submission — it should still be an informed choice: they should be able to try both, probably fail and figure it out for themselves.
     Another problem is that they see lots of counterexamples — bosses who got their position not with hard work, but underhanded tricks or knowing the right people, who indeed only collect bonuses, don't bear responsibilities for anything and don't do any real work — this is a bad role model, but it's very easy to follow.
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     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 18-Apr-2024 18:19:05 JST Sick Sun

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     • on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ
     @lain @kaia well that and capital concentration if you're a marxist
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     on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ (lain@lain.com)'s status on Thursday, 18-Apr-2024 18:21:02 JST on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ

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     @sun @kaia sure, but marxist theory is simply wrong.
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     A Light Shining in Darkness (fzer0@nerdculture.de)'s status on Thursday, 18-Apr-2024 18:24:38 JST A Light Shining in Darkness

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     @lain @kaia

     The happiest people i know are the ones who do what they are told to do for a few hours/day, go home afterwards and don't think about work until morning of the next workday.

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     on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ (lain@lain.com)'s status on Thursday, 18-Apr-2024 18:25:47 JST on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ

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     @fzer0 @kaia it's always a question of ranking your options and figuring out what's best for you overall.
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     「セル」cell (سل) (cell@pl.ebin.zone)'s status on Thursday, 18-Apr-2024 18:26:47 JST 「セル」cell (سل)

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     @koakuma @kaia she certainly helped made me realize that it isn’t (just) HR doing all the evil things tbh - they’re just vehicles for management
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     korgster (korgster@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Thursday, 18-Apr-2024 18:26:47 JST korgster

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     @cell @kaia @koakuma I can see horns growing out of HR peoples heads every time I meet one
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     Sun Microdevil Pte Ltd (koakuma@uwu.social)'s status on Thursday, 18-Apr-2024 18:26:48 JST Sun Microdevil Pte Ltd

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     @cell I believe @kaia is benevolent superior :02lurk:

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     A Light Shining in Darkness (fzer0@nerdculture.de)'s status on Thursday, 18-Apr-2024 18:27:21 JST A Light Shining in Darkness

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     @lain @kaia

     Sure, but sometimes i just wish i would be able to do this too.

     Sadly my brain is not wired that way.

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     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 18-Apr-2024 18:40:07 JST Sick Sun

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     @EmoIsDeadAndSoAmI @kaia @lain I am not a marxist but some of the criticism is plausible to me. Like yeah you are competing against companies that can bankrupt you in your early stages to keep their monopoly so there is a bias where the wealthy stay wealthy and keep others from getting wealthier by the same method. part of why I am not a marxist is I think it's not something you can fix though and it's more useful to try to mitigate while still within the framework of money and competition.
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     Top of the hop (on Mumble) (emoisdeadandsoami@mastodon.bv.linksjugend-solid.de)'s status on Thursday, 18-Apr-2024 18:40:09 JST Top of the hop (on Mumble)

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     @sun @kaia @lain yeah exactly, why should one assume that the economy as it has historically developed is the most efficient and optimal way to "get people stuff they need" and provide good infrastrucure, monopolism, bourgeois class warfare like f.ex. austerity and falling rate of profit actually create problems for economies in achieving that

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     on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ (lain@lain.com)'s status on Thursday, 18-Apr-2024 18:42:49 JST on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ

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     @sun @kaia @EmoIsDeadAndSoAmI the reason you should not be a marxist is because marxism is at least in form a scientific theory with math and formulas and those are simply wrong. one doesn't have to be a marxist to believe that many big companies are doing crimes to keep their profits.
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     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 18-Apr-2024 19:04:26 JST Sick Sun

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     @lain @kaia @EmoIsDeadAndSoAmI I'm not saying it's a crime just that intuitively it's correct that money makes it easier to make more money so wealth concentrates and locks other people out of wealth. I know you know that is not the only factor though and there are advantages to being
     small and not sclerotic.
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     Cinnamon (cinnamon@mk.absturztau.be)'s status on Thursday, 18-Apr-2024 19:20:48 JST Cinnamon

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     @kaia@brotka.st Thinking about what the next task should be in a self-leading environment sometimes takes more time/effort than doing the task itself. That's the elephant in the room for me, or at least for my 144 points in RAADS-R brain.
     
     And procrastination, but I don't want to acknowledge it. I'm sweeping procrastination under the carpet. Nothing to see here. Look at my OCD instead. See how clean and completed everything is because of it? :blobcatsmile:

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     bartholin (bartholin@fops.cloud)'s status on Thursday, 18-Apr-2024 19:57:42 JST bartholin

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     @kaia what about a self-managed worker cooperative?
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     kaia (kaia@brotka.st)'s status on Thursday, 18-Apr-2024 19:58:48 JST kaia

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     @bartholin doesn't work well. even many kibbutzim went bankrupt
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     Top of the hop (on Mumble) (emoisdeadandsoami@mastodon.bv.linksjugend-solid.de)'s status on Friday, 19-Apr-2024 12:27:15 JST Top of the hop (on Mumble)

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     @lain @kaia @sun
     So called marxist-leninists when their immortal teachings of historical materialism get deboonked by Snopes

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     supersid (supersid333@gearlandia.haus)'s status on Monday, 22-Apr-2024 17:19:24 JST supersid

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     @kaia Maybe unpopular but I agree, I work best as a right hand man at best.
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