WORK & CAPITALISM | WEEK 1 ”BOSSES”

Dealing with tyranny in the workplace

Sarah Ngu starts off our "Work and Capitalism" Series with a deep dive into the power of "bosses" in organizations.

The workplace in general is structurally set up as a tyranny where one person has the power to greatly determine the economic livelihood of another, and if you have a good boss, that’s nice but you’re lucky because that’s basically the equivalent of a benevolent dictatorship. The only leverage that workers have is that we have power in numbers, and so we can organize collectively together for fair wages, fair hours, otherwise known as a union.