Google is laying off more employees and hiring for their roles outside of the U.S.

  • Veraxus@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Wealth (whether it be “money”, resources, or anything else) and power are one and the same. Two sides of the same coin. Either one provides access to the other. I don’t think of them as separate or distinct at all… which is why it’s problematic for the aristocratic hoarders when plebes start to pool either and work collectively.

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      6 months ago

      Oh, no, they’re not exactly the same. They wouldn’t come into conflict if they were the same.

      As another example, unions. Employees often see issues early on; perhaps a machine needing maintenance. A union can bring this up to management and put the pressure on to get it done. The business will save money in the long run with machines in proper maintenance.

      If it doesn’t get done, best case scenario is that it fails and the whole production line is shot until it’s fixed. Worst case, it fails more catastrophically and damages other equipment, or injures workers.

      Despite plenty of stories like this, companies will fight unionization efforts every time. Why? Because money doesn’t always align with power.

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        6 months ago

        Maybe something is getting lost in translation, but none of the things you mentioned seem to have anything to do with the point I’m making… so your ending claim that “money doesn’t always align with power” doesn’t seem related to anything I said or the scenario you posed…?

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          6 months ago

          “Wealth and power are exactly the same”. This is the claim I’m disputing. If there are places where money and power are in conflict, then they can’t be the same. Your analysis of a situation will be have holes in it if this is not considered.

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            6 months ago

            If you’d care to dive deeper I’d like to be challenged on this; but your previous example of “maintaining things can avoid unnecessary costs later” (as I understand it) doesn’t have anything to do with “money and power can be in conflict”.

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            6 months ago

            Shortsightedness driven by greed does not, in any way, negate money equaling power.

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              6 months ago

              Then let me attack it from a different direction: can you have power in a society that does not have money?

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                6 months ago

                Within that isolated society? Sure.

                If your goal was to argue semantics then I don’t know why I’m entertaining this. Yes, in an imaginary society that is 1) somehow not influenced by modern society and 2) somehow also avoids currency - power dynamics will obviously take different shapes.

                Do you realize how meaningless that example is?

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                  6 months ago

                  I’m working outword to find a path in.

                  If a society can have power without money, then can the two overlap perfectly in any society?

                  To use a more concrete example, how do unions ever have power in our society? They tend not to have money, or at least very little in proportion to the business owners.