Reinstate the workers; they're consumers now!

Donglegate | grey lining

It's not just identity politics, it's that everybody everywhere seems to be in passive, consumerist mode, requiring and demanding that others regulate their negative emotions for them.   The stronger the consumerist mentality and cultural atomisation, the more you produce these crybabies.

People feel weak as workers but strongest in their position of consumers, where the principle applies that the customer knows best.   So they complain, when they enter a new situation, that their consumption of it wasn't to their liking. They take the strongest line they know how to on the basis of their experience -- they demand that the authorities "fix" the situation so that they can consume it more pleasurably.    And then of course the bosses, who only want to make the generalized consumer happy, sack the errant workers, to please the random consumer.   The workers have no value -- unless they become consumers themselves.   In other words, they must learn to embrace identity politics and whine about their situations.  Who knows?  They could be reinstated.