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Accelerationism

Accelerationism is the idea that we shouldn't try to fix coordination problems, like workers being unwilling to take on the risk of bootstrapping unions as individuals. Instead, we should allow them to fester and actually exacerbate them when a low risk opportunity to do so arises. This accelerates us to a place where the incentive landscape is so lopsided that taking on that risk as an individual is tolerable. Any victories short of mass compliance to a solution to a coordination problem only serve to slow progress to such a state. We are clearly unwilling to coordinate on labor reform, and things will only slowly degenerate to the point that we are all forced into action. Why aren't we cheering on and enabling toxic managers who are actually the ones moving us towards labor reform? At least they're doing something.


Accelerationism is the idea that we shouldn't try to fix coordination problems, like workers being unwilling to take on the risk of bootstrapping unions as individuals. Instead, we should allow them to fester and actually exacerbate them when a low risk opportunity to do so arises. This accelerates us to a place where the incentive landscape is so lopsided that taking on that risk as an individual is tolerable. Any victories short of mass compliance to a solution to a coordination problem only serve to slow progress to such a state.

We are clearly unwilling to coordinate on labor reform, and things will only slowly degenerate to the point that we are all forced into action. Why aren't we cheering on and enabling toxic managers who are actually the ones moving us towards labor reform? At least they're doing something.

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