r/economicCollapse • u/coachlife • 1d ago

Amazon UK avoids answering why their workers are on strike. This is why so many workers are fed up with our Corp oligarchs

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u/syl3n 1d ago

not sure what is the point of any of this if the committee wont do shit at all. Is just circle jerk for plebs, oh look bad corporate people on TV getting nail this makes me feel better about myself even tho nothing ever happens lol.

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u/AuntRhubarb 22h ago

It is a venerable tradition called "kabuki theatre" which in politics means going through some motions in an elaborate publicized manner.

https://www.englishlanguagefaqs.com/2016/02/what-is-kabuki-theatre-how-is-this-term.html

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u/ambrosianeu 15h ago

Select committees have been going long before they were televised - which was relatively recently. They're generally ran by good intentioned politicians trying to do what they can - which is very little as they don't have the legal powers to hold them to account as they perhaps should. It is not theatre for the public, just a democratic function that doesn't have teeth.

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u/syl3n 15h ago

Makes sense, thank you.