Current Events > ants treat workers better than humans do

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https://twitter.com/AdamBlumenau/status/1716233030124130331

seriously a hive mind worker species treats its workers better than capitalism does

Ant "workers" are basically on suicide missions

They do go to war and make slaves of the losers though.

At the end of the mating season, worker bees drag the drones out of the hive and kick them to the curb.

I'm not sure we want capitalism to look to eusocial insects for ideas.

Thought ce hated colonizers

FortuneCookie posted...

They do go to war and make slaves of the losers though.

Thats one moral high ground humans can take over ants at least.

Wait.

Wait until they enter an ant mill where they are not permitted to leave and have to continue marching in a spiral non-stop until they all drop dead (and in the worst case the whole colony joins in).

So you want almost half the population to be unemployed, waiting for a job slot to open up? Or doing temp work?

R1masher posted...

Thought ce hated colonizers

Step outta the hive mind.

specialkid8 posted...

So you want almost half the population to be unemployed, waiting for a job slot to open up? Or doing temp work?

Yes actually. Allow AI and automation. Tax the everloving fuck out of it. Pay for UBI. Done deal

They also work themselves to death in a matter of months to support the queen. Still think they're treated better than human workers?

Some fly

How much is an ant paid?

008Zulu posted...

How much is an ant paid?

Free home free food free defense

That tweet is pretty much stating that all the worker ants are considered disposable and replaceable how is that better exactly.

This is a real take?

Irony posted...

That tweet is pretty much stating that all the worker ants are considered disposable and replaceable how is that better exactly.

not only that - the other 60% pretty much work till theyre dead with little break.

Humans do this, they're called "stay at home Moms"

I'd be willing to bet that fact isn't even true. Automatically taking a social post as truth because it resonates with your beliefs, then immediately taking a hard stance on it is an issue that is far too common.

GeraldDarko posted...

I'd be willing to bet that fact isn't even true. Automatically taking a social post as truth because it resonates with your beliefs, then immediately taking a hard stance on it is an issue that is far too common.

It mostly checks out, but is a completely garbage take unless TC thinks that most people should be working all the time, as in essentially 24/7 from birth to death.

It's wild to hear people say this kinda shit in complete seriousness.

You can even fathom the horrific life of an ant.

Remember the movie Antz that was basically an uprising against the elite? We should learn from that

Paragon21XX posted...

Wait until they enter an ant mill where they are not permitted to leave and have to continue marching in a spiral non-stop until they all drop dead (and in the worst case the whole colony joins in).

I like to think that's them gaining a conscience and realizing they're all pieces of shit

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We dont get paid either. We wrack up debt just to survive.

Ants treat their LIVESTOCK better than we do.

We grow chickens in hells worse than a freaking Warhammer 40k Hive City. And for what? Big box stores will throw out 25-40% of their rotisseries daily because they didn't sell.

We grow these living beings in holocaust conditions or worse, for the express purpose of killing them for their meat, and then just throw away a third of them just because their corpses were "not bought on the right day."

Disgusting.

Its ok. Employees tweet rainbows during pride month, so it balances out

R1masher posted...

Thought ce hated colonizers

Imagine the takeaway being that we should actually emulate ants, and not that "wow, even these insects treat their workers better".

Crabs have a better housing market too
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/1/4/7/AACE4xAAE9qb.jpg

I hate having to work as much as the next guy, but I don't feel the vitriol for it that others do. Maybe I've just been lucky to have jobs and management that i liked.

That, or I've convinced myself I don't hate them. *shrug*

Imagine thinking that it's a good thing for 40% of workers to not work.

Torgo posted...

Imagine the takeaway being that we should actually emulate ants, and not that "wow, even these insects treat their workers better".

I mean, since when has any post negatively alleging things like "lol this board" or "typical CE/261" ever been a good one?

They literally procreated for work

Capitalism is still preferable to monarchy tho

Shoot at my work, that 40% doesn't even help out during shortages and are basically worthless at best

But NEETs tho

Oh look a flopic, oh it's TC. Nothing new here.

We should be more like ants, mindless drones serving the queen, got it.

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honestly, yeah. and if you factor in third world countries and their unsafe working conditions, slavery, and people working in military I bet you could also argue that overall ants also have better working conditions on average.

Come to think of it, this topic reminds me (Butters) of playing Warcraft of other old RTS games where you always would have to micromanage by finding all of the idle Peasants/Drones/Peons/whatever to get them back to work.