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Music While Programming?
BubbaDoom writes "In our cubicle-ville, we have programmers intermixed with accounting, customer support and marketing. As programmers, it is our habit to put on our headphones and listen to our portable music players to drown out all of the noise from everyone else. The boss recently sent an email just to the programmers demanding that we do not use our music players at work because he thinks it distracts us from our jobs and causes us to make mistakes. Of course, we've explained to him that prattle from the other people is much, much more distracting, but he insists his policy is the right one. What is the Slashdot community's experience with music at work for programmers?"
2) band together with the other exploited workers to put a stop to oppressive management. Workers of the world, unite! In short, communism.
That word, "communism", keeps being thrown around these days, but it doesn't mean what you think it does.
No, what you're talking about it is "unionization," also known as "free association," also known as "bargaining." Funny how the same people that go on and on about "freedom" and the need for businesses to band together, don't want individual contractors that enable the businesses to function to exercise that same right. No, instead they are to remain resources for exploitation. They are to know their place, and not tot speak ill of their betters, and be grateful that only half the scraps they were given were taken away, but by no means exercise collective power.
New Rule: Anyone invoking "communism" or "socialism" into an argument, pulled a Godwin.
And when you look for the last time both of those messages really took hold, you get Europe in the early 20th century.
Good Europe embraced lazzie faire capitalism and crushed unions, because otherwise think where their working economies, trade surpluses, top tier educational and healthcare system, and six weeks paid vacations would get them? Oh wait...
LOL
That troll is too fucking stupid to pick up on shit that any high school kid would know. Even worse concerning his basic lack of understanding is that he claims he is a "Proud Liberal", HA!