I assumed it was just a very dirty, tough job requiring some specialized equipment and skills. Are you saying it's somehow fundamentally different from other human activities?
kattfisk
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My experience organizing non-profit events have shown that most people actually have no problem doing dirty jobs for no material compensation. If the following things are true:
- They understand why the job is important
- They feel responsible for the job (usually comes from being given autonomy and trust)
- They get recognition for doing it (social rewards are actually very powerful)
- No one else is getting compensated either.
I understand that this seems foreign to a lot of people, because this is not how work is generally motivated in capitalist society. You are used to your job being rather unimportant, with little autonomy, little trust, not much recognition from society and some people definitely profiting more than others. Your primary motivator is the threat of violence (via homelessness, starvation etc.), so it's hard to imagine what would happen if that was removed.
That to me is the core idea of Anarchism, to base your organization on volontary cooperation rather than coercion.
An interesting side-note is that the people who do the dirty jobs in these circumstances often take great pride in it, forming an identify around doing what others are not willing to and calling attention to it as a way to get more recognition.
Why are there so many emigrants from Islamic countries? Most of them are even Muslims, but still they can’t live safely in their home country?
If you genuinely don't know, you should abstain from having opinions until you gain a basic understanding of what is going on in the world.
The world is experiencing an unfathomable and worsening refugee crisis with 122 million people currently forced to flee their homes [1]. This is mostly due to overlapping long brutal wars. Refugees seeking shelter in the EU are mostly fleeing from Syria, Ukraine, Afganistan or Iraq. Most of these countries are majority muslim so that's what most refugees will be.
As for why they can't live safely in their home country, it's because it's a war zone, and has been for many years.
The rioters in Sweden were not "extreme muslims". They were not particularly devout, but simply angry young men riled up by what they perceived as a racist state-sanctioned attack on their culture and heritage.
Many parties worked to escalate this issue, from far-right assholes looking to sow hate between religious groups, state actors trying to weaken Sweden internally and diplomatically, islamic countries trying to unify their people with a common enemy, as well as religious extremists seeking more influence. That's why it gained so much attention, and generated so much outrage and violence.
Even if the actions really do nothing, they get people active and organized, so that they can take more effective actions later on.
I honestly think a lot of this criticism is people's internalized rationalization for why they themselves don't take action.
Who? Who is selling you out? Ocasio Cortez? Really?
What are some of the outstanding issues that haven't been addressed? I feel like there are genuinely good ways of doing everything these days
They've done amazing work trying to turn the clusterfuck they started with into a good language
How many of these "lacking features" are actually standardized? Of course some draft under development by Google will only work in the latest version of Chrome. It might not even work in future versions of Chrome, since it's not standardized.
If you built something that requires such a feature, it's you who is choosing to write code that is incompatible with the standards and only works on a particular browser version. You can't blame others for that.
Even before Trump, the US illegally deported lots of citizens by accident. Because practical legal protections against deportation were shit even back then.
So they don't even have to make it legal. Just impossible to practically fight illegal deportation.
That's what all the coffee and wine is for!
Perhaps it was a poor choice of words, when I said "organizing" I meant everything required to run an event (with thousands attending). From planning and programming to picking trash and cleaning toilets.