I started this project in 2015 with cute animals doing funny sounding new economy jobs. As it grew it added visionaries, disruptors and hackers. Then opportunists and con men. Violent billionaire dictator is not a random result here; it’s a parallel outcome of move-fast-and-break-things culture — an idea that only works for people who are so privileged and insulated that they have little to lose by plowing ahead without thinking about the consequences.
Stop idolizing a few jackasses that won the VC lottery and listen to marginalized people instead. Have the hard conversations with our kids that so many of our parents avoided.
On this day, 23 October 1948, the United Brewery Workers union claimed that most of its 3000 wildcat striking members in New York City would return to work the following day, in what rank-and-file workers complained was a “conspiracy” to keep up the morale of brewery bosses. Strikers insisted that the strike would continue, and even grow, until bosses agreed to change a clause in their contract which penalised drivers for not loading or unloading their vehicles quickly enough. Sure enough, the claims of the union officials proved false and the strike continued. Meanwhile, police guarded bridges across the Hudson River to ensure safe transport of beer from out-of-state to the city. https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1244140735771074/?type=3
