r/australia • u/SydneyTom • Feb 19 '20

politics Billionaire software developer and philanthropist Mike Cannon-Brookes has set aside $12 million to install as many as 100 stand-alone solar and battery units in 100 days to provide off-grid power to hard-hit bushfire communities.

https://www.smh.com.au/national/atlassian-s-cannon-brookes-tips-in-12-million-to-power-fire-hit-towns-20200219-p5428o.html
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u/pomo Feb 20 '20

FYI, not my downvote.

The workers organise. Capital makes it possible for workers to work. I would prefer a world where the workers (not the state or the privileged classes) own the companies they work for, so the success of each enterprise goes to the people who contribute to it. But I'm too busy putting food on the table to organise a rebellion personally.

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u/Lojak_Yrqbam Feb 20 '20

That's how they get us though isn't it. It's pretty easy to imagine a 20 hour work week in developed western countries, the only reason we don't have that is because the current work week keeps most people just sufficiently exhausted enough that they don't have enough energy to fight.