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You're anti union except for when conditions are bad for workers? Are you against business owners coordinating too?
Yes I'm also against cartels who coordinate their purchasing of labor.
Disco Elysium and the need for collective action
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Re: Disco Elysium and the need for collective action
#42Any recommendations for similar games or similarly impressive games?
I second this request. Specifically, I would love to hear about more games that actually reward role playing. In Disco Elysium, you adopt beliefs ("thoughts" in your "thought cabinet") and then are rewarded for choosing dialogue and performing actions consistent with those beliefs. You can have a wide variety of experiences with the same exact story in DE based on the beliefs you choose and adhere to. The art, writin…
I think what makes Disco Elysium stand out is how much it encourages playing a quirky character.
It's possible to play a "boring cop" or a "sorry cop". But the game portrays that the character you're playing was ... not really that.
Re: Disco Elysium and the need for collective action
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You're anti union except for when conditions are bad for workers? Are you against business owners coordinating too?
I, for one, think that mission-oriented organizations should be more willing to admit that they're done and disband rather than endlessly expanding. In the case of unions, there is an adversarial party, so it is possible that gains could eventually be clawed back, but large, long-standing unions (like other organizations) do have a tendency towards bureaucratic bloat that might make someone take a position that resem…
I feel that way about a lot of organizations. Unless there's an ongoing need, they should fold up and be done. Corporations too. If this were how it worked, we'd all get products that last forever passed around as heirlooms.
Unfortunately everything living is afraid of death, and these organizations will come up with an ongoing need, real or not.