StrayCatFrump

Paywall bypass on the linked article: https://archive.ph/bRBjE

Nice. Love to see people contributing both to this genre of source material and to FOSG. And doing it with a good set of players as you go is definitely the best way to do it. Keep on gamin'!

May take a look at the material later, though probably not going to participate in the game.

TBH my initial thought is that it would make more sense to produce source material for an existing genre-neutral system like the Hero System than to create a whole new system unto itself. Still, I guess if the system is going to be FOSG (Free and Open-Source Gaming 😉) then it would still make sense to do the extra work.

Yeah. TBH I have yet to see a situation in which "tons of compost, mulch, and other organic material" is not a good answer. In clay/silt, it helps to break things up so they drain better and pack less. In sand, it helps to retain moisture so it doesn't drain too quickly. And generally it feeds and introduces those ever-important microbes, on top of the usual nutrients. Really can't go wrong. There was even a master gardener a century or so ago whose entire care regimen was simply to add mulch to about knee-high continuously (IIRC she didn't even water).

Restaurants run on hierarchy, or so I’ve always been told. There’s got to be someone in charge, someone giving orders, in order for the whole thing to run right.... The last person I worked for, one of the most experienced and talented restaurant people I’ve ever met, always said it’s best to run a restaurant as a “benign dictatorship.”

I mean, liberals (and authorities like owners/executives/managers/politicians) will tell you this about literally everything, not just restaurants. So there's no particular reason to believe them, and many millennia of history filled with reasons to not believe them. shrug

Instead of the conservative motto, “A fair day’s wage for a fair day’s work,” we must inscribe on our banner the revolutionary watchword, “Abolition of the wage system.”

—Preamble to the Constitution of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)

Looking at China its also the end of communism…

Workers absolutely do not own and self-manage their workplaces in China. There is nothing communist about it, except propaganda used to falsely promote its rulers. Economic systems are defined by the actual, material relations involved in them, not in the lies told by their PR.

EDIT: Note that others may or may not want to address the connection you make between China and fascism. I chose not to, because it is irrelevant to the question of whether anything about China implies something about communism.

I mean, even without revenue decreasing, profits are going to "decrease" because money that will go to increased pay and benefits to workers would otherwise go to greater profits. So even leaving out the fearmongering about lost revenue, the title and significant parts of the article (about profits and margins) is taking the liberal path of calling it a bad thing due to sympathy with capitalists instead of workers.

So yeah: how about a fuck you UPS, and a fuck you CNN. Nothing new, but always bears repeating.

Hmm. Yeah, that's a possibility. I do other stuff that's similar, like working on community gardens and helping comrades who are interested in learning technical skills I'm practiced in. But collective remote work situations...that's an interesting think to ponder!

Yes. My company decided to shut down the local office to save money (kept by the bosses rather than being distributed to us, of course). So some of us became remote indefinitely.

Generally, I love it. I can "commute" in my PJs, and avoid spewing a lot of carbon into the climate just to ship around my sack of flesh. I can take breaks throughout the day to tend my garden, and play music to help myself think. I don't have to worry about packing a lunch, or wasting time and money and social energy eating out in the middle of the day. Hell, I can go take a nap when I don't have any meetings scheduled and feel the need.

However, it does take its toll. Not having a direct, face-to-face, human connection with folks throughout the day harms the associations that build solidarity. And finding ways to do one-on-ones and continue organizing the workplace is proving next to impossible. So I'm honestly not sure it is worth it at this stage of labor struggle. In a more ideal world—once we've won a few crucial victories over capital (and perhaps state)—I see no reason why many of us couldn't work from home, and even move those jobs that require more direct, physical labor closer to those homes.

Kshama spitting truth! Someone's fighting to improve material conditions for the working class here, and it sure as fuck ain't the Democrats (or Republicans, but that's obvious)!

That's funny, because it literally does work in many places. You might want to refine your idea of how everything works, since you are simply wrong. 🤷