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my direct manager is so deeply capitalism cucked. i used to bring up ideas like this to him, because he's a turbolib and fancies himself an intellectual and progressive. i have learned, he is the embodiment of the cultural hegemony of US political economy.

• when i told him about some german/EU regulation for large employers... when emails are sent outside of working hours were met with a >1000 euro fine, he snapped to attention, "that could never work here! it would be a disaster!"
• when upper management for our organization ruled [after threats of slowdown] that a historically, highly exploited position (which the institution is deeply dependent on for generating direct value) would now have a wage floor of an almost livable wage he COMPLAINED that it was incumbent on people in/around his managerial level to find the money going forward.
• he preaches the gospel of austerity for everyone below the level of management but publicly fights hard to get managers bigger compensation packages, seeing them as full citizens and the rest of us as appliances and tools, or extensions of the value of managers.

he seems to completely internalize the most obviously false values of capitalist ideology, even the ones the upper level managers parrot but know better than to believe. this guy personally makes 3x the median household income for the the county, and spends all his effort going to meetings complaining about the lack of money for projects. not to mention the perennial HR dumpster fire of his fiefdom from high turnover among productive, non-managerial staff with critical institutional knowledge. it should surprise no one that he is a doofus with his personal finances too and carries credit card debt.

it's hard to imagine a more useful idiot for the bourgeoisie.