#worker abuse

The five richest tech moguls—Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Larry Ellison, and Larry Page—are not just symbols of wealth; they have also become emblematic of a systemic betrayal of the American public. Though celebrated for innovation, these billionaires have allegedly inflicted wide-ranging harm on democracy, labor, privacy, and social cohesion. Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has…

In something that would be hilariously on-the-nose if it weren’t so horrible, a fucking chocolate company runs most of the pet hospitals in the US, and they are horrifyingly awful.

I was reading a debate about Kubrick's treatment of Shelly Duval during the filming of The Shinning and a lot of people - or maybe a small but very vocal group of people - were trying to defend that the end result (her great perfomance) justify the abuse. They talk as if it was the only way that Kubrick could have used to get her best perfomance, that art is a result of real emotion and this emotion is mostly pain and suffering (one even talking about Van Gogh cutting of his ear - and fr can we apreciate Van Gogh art without this tormented artist bs, yes he suffered dearly and some of his best work shows it, but some of it was also about the few moments were he felt genuine happinness and about his love for nature, not only that but there are a lot of great artists who didn't suffer for their art and they are as valid as Van Gogh).

I will admit that some of this coments were results of the almost cultist adoration some people - not only film bros - have for Kubrick. They are uncapable of admiting his mistakes (including small continuity errors that ofc he had because making movies is hard) and do massive loops to defend any criticism towards him (and I like Kubrick, with exception of his depiction of Lolita, I hate that movie with passion, but like Dr. Strangelove is one of my favorite movies and I rly like A Clockwork Orange).

That all being said in the end the major reason was still this idea that art = pain. Is why Hollywood is still obcessed with method acting, why actors dehidrating, starving themselfs or living months in isolation are all saw as positive, why there are actual murders show on movies (it is older movies but still), why cinema realism was used to justify a rape, and maybe not to those extremes but we hear this abuse stories like how in Now I See You the actress actually though she was in danger during the scape artistry scene and we think wow soo cool this is real art. Art can come from pain and it can aliviate it and be cathartic and we should not disminish it but we have to stop acting as if creating more pain is the result to good art.

Van Gogh mental illness didn't made him a better artist. It made him kill himself. The art he made from the pain was beutifull but the art he made from his genuine happy moments and from his love for nature also was. He was a good artist. Period. And his pain is valid and important to his art but it shoudn't be inspirational. It's a tragedy. People shoudn't idolize his pain. Imagine how much more he could've done if he had a better mental health, how much more he could have created, how happier would he be. Why wouldn't you want that?

Art is an important form of expression. And if you're depressed or even just sad the art you make from it is valid and the emotion you put in it turns it beutifull. But you should not be afraid of getting better and losing your talent, as I know it happens, and people should not be driving others to this abys for art. Pain can create amazing art and I think creating can help aliviate this pain. But we should not generate pain for art sake. We should do art from pain and not pain for art.

Now this are just rambles. I'm not an artist. I write somethings and maybe they are art but they aren't good or anything and my life is good, but I do have mental health problems and I do think my bad moments do inspire some of the less bad of my writing but there are other pieces driven by happines and fun and I think in the end I don't want to see this suffering glamourized. I don't want people to feel like they have to suffer. I'm studying to be a psycologist it would be an antithesis to my dream job to think otherwise.

So, for those who haven’t seen it, Amazon are doing this Ambassador thing where they pay their workers to post happy things and defend Amazon instead of having to work on the floor.

I don’t know which possibility is more horrific, that some Amazon employee thought a fictional ‘depression was my fault because I wouldn’t talk to people’ story would endear Amazon to us, or that there really is a person blaming themselves for having PPD after a miscarriage.

They said, and I quote, that I “focused too much on my work and didn’t interact with the team enough”

Interesting enough the thing I was told I was being contracted to do was done and they even asked for me to give them a nice guide on how I did it.

I was an Intern btw.

They literally treated me like a bloody tool. They bought me, used me and then discarted me

Please never work for Discovery Networks. Nor support their channels. They dont care for their workers.