• WhyEssEff [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    disclaimer, this is a rough observation, definitely not a robust analysis.

    the other flank exists, but it’s largely cordoned off to start-ups and the odd private company. some companies implement these policies, but because competition is very much not real for most of the economy in the current stage of capitalism (especially in America), work policy is ordained mainly by a cadre of coordinated monopolists.

    beyond this, class interest writ large of the western bourgeoisie currently is to stamp out any working class momentum that could form, given the heightening contradictions coming to roost with China’s ascendance and America’s stagnation. There’s a new cadre unwilling to make the social concessions of their forefathers to combat socialism, instead taking an even more militant approach and embracing domestic fascism. Throw in deeply-rooted ideology w/rt the protestant work ethic and grind culture as well as the need to be able to assert hierarchy on their subordinates.