Bandcamp's Entire Union Bargaining Team Was Laid Off

Post by AlgorithmicTime » Thu, Oct 19, 2023, 5:44 PM UTC

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Free healthcare! I pay 9% of my income in Poland for the public healthcare I couldn't use due to enormous queues. Therefore I pay subscription to the private medical provider, pay for dentistry, for all the medicine prescribed by any doctor(public as well). What percentage of income typical software spends for medical insurance and bills?

In the US? Having to go to the hospital, having an illness etc can cost tens of thousands of dollars. Other countries pay more per paycheck, we pay a lot more per bill. Going to the hospital would bankrupt me even as a relatively well off software engineer and even with my decent (work-tied) healthcare I still have months of wait time. In order to get into a doctor I made an appointment in February for a visit in Sep…

Post by dimal » Thu, Oct 19, 2023, 5:47 PM UTC

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Thank you for making this a public benefit company. We need more companies to follow this route to protect against future enshittification. But with public benefit corporations, I’ve been wondering, is it possible at some point for the board vote to change to some other type of entity, like a C-corp? And what rules are in place to enforce that it is working in the public benefit? Cory Doctorow talks about using Ulyss…

My understanding of it (and IANAL) is that while the board could potentially vote to change it, the shareholders can take legal action for failing to pursue the public benefit obligations. I can't say whether trying to remove the public benefit obligation alone is grounds to bring a suit, but I think they'd be able to make a case for it. My hope is that being a PBC will scare off predators and encourage like-minded p…

Post by MichaelZuo » Thu, Oct 19, 2023, 5:58 PM UTC

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It's the end consumer that has to pay for every extra bit of overhead accumulated along the way. And the bill isn't delayed by a lifetime either.

Who pays venture capitalists and executives?

Post by IshKebab » Thu, Oct 19, 2023, 6:06 PM UTC

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Here's the bit of the article they put in the middle after all the outrage: > "On Monday, October 16, 2023 over half of Bandcamp was laid off as a result of Epic Games’ divestiture to Songtradr,” Bandcamp United said in a statement. “Of those laid off, 40 were in the union bargaining unit out of a total 67 members. None of the eight (8) democratically elected bargaining team members received a job offer." I can't be…

> the kinds of people who have time to lead a union are likely to be the kinds of people without important jobs ... Wow. That's something you'd never hear in Europe (outside of a golf course, at least). For the record, leading a union is an important job, and all that's required to want the job is a sense of fairness. In reality, many people balance multiple responsibilities, including leadership roles in unions alon…

Post by g-b-r » Thu, Oct 19, 2023, 6:08 PM UTC

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If you succeed in making it a Bandcamp alternative please make the tos and privacy terms extremely brief and transparent, for me (and I imagine many other privacy-minded people) that's one of the most important factors in deciding to try and trust a service these days

This is important to me. It should matter to everyone, especially in the independent music/arts where value so easily gets leeched out by people with resources.