Walmart patents surveillance tool that can eavesdrop on workers

That being said, the initial Russian transition of power in WWI, where the czar stepped down was without (minimal) violence.[1] This is before the October revolution (which was violent).

[1] https://www.english-online.at/history/russian-revolution/rus...

This is classic Industrialist overreach. Taft-Hartley be damned. Enough is enough. Corporate America needs a wake-up call, and I think the unions may need to brush off the dust and get back in the game.

It's one thing to play with hypotheticals, but Corporations are starting to leverage capital advantaged positions in order to dictate what values the average American can expect in their lifetime.

It's a slow, insidious process that will happen over several generations, and if a stand isn't made against this sort of thing, it qualifies as implicit acceptance of the status quo.

If industry is going to try to build itself into a position where it can micromanage every iota of the working day out of a perceived superior position brought by cornering the "market" on economic power "capital", then labor needs to be willing to say "have fun with that, we'll find another way to survive."

I get this may come across as hyperbolic rhetoric, but it is absolutely INSANE that people are thinking about IMPLEMENTING these sorts of things.

That's a much harder job. And if they insist on that, they can damned well pay -- a lot more -- for it.

And that's where the group of the impacted have to and, as far as I'm concerned, have the right to come together and say so.

Meantime, Walmart, as a tax payer, I'm tired of paying for your b-llshit (public benefits to full-time or should-be-full-time employees, ridiculous tax breaks (that go to the top, not the bottom), and all the rest).