Month: April 2022

Interview with Angelika Maldonado, the twenty-seven-year-old chair of ALU’s Workers Committee. ” There are a lot of different types of people who work at JFK8; it’s really diverse in age, race, and where people live — people commute here from all over. But one of the main divisions was age. Keep in mind that the average age of an ALU organizer is about twenty-six — many older workers tended to be more skeptical of the union. The culture at Amazon is very intense and intimidating, so when a lot of older workers first saw a bunch of young people trying to organize something so big, it was hard for some of them to grasp that we actually knew what we wanted and that we knew how to get there. “ “we overcame the age gap mostly just by being relatable and personable — honestly, that’s how we won this election.…

TL;DR: I believe that we in the US have been brainwashed to glorify productivity and villainize laziness, and it's led to a cancerous growth of business and capital ​ I'm sure that I won't articulate this the way I want to, and I worry that this is going to come across as more of a chaotic rant than a well-structured argument, but I just wanted a place to vent about my frustrations with capitalism and its influence on our moral intuitions as a society in the US. ​ I grew up in a fairly diverse community in Los Angeles that included people from a wide range of ethnicities, religions, socioeconomic statuses, and political beliefs. But basically everybody – rich and poor, liberal and conservative – agreed that there's no such thing as a free lunch and that you'd have to work hard to survive in this world. The idea of…