• milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee
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      I’m afraid it would become another marketing/HR term. We call you Core Contributors, which makes it seem like we’re being nice to you, behind which curtain we can mess you around and take more of your output for ourselves.

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      Yeah, it’s also interesting that we almost never say “skilled work”. It’s just work vs. ‘Unskilled’. Might as well just stop with the division (which is only useful to billionaires and people in finance). Divide and conquer, I guess…

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      I rememebe when they were called them heroes during covid, but received no increase in pay and were treated like shit again the moment the vaccine existed.