why is paying your staff scammy? like, dude had no campaign strategy that made any sense and the people who donated to him got scammed in that sense. but the part where he paid his campaign staff a fair wage before sinking all the money into ads is the part we should be praising him for. it means he's not an abusive, piece of shit boss.
Paying staff isn't wrong, but I think being volunteer-based would be perfectly forgiveable for such a small team.
If there's no money for campaigning, then what was the point to begin with? Like, if you have a campaign and you can afford it, pay your staff a good wage, but he didn't have a campaign.
yea, that's fair, but they had money and using it to pay staff first is good. better that than paying the money to a group of capitalists that will turn around and funnel the money (in the abstract) to your opponents.
imagine saying this about literally any other group of workers. "uhh actually, you need to have other sources of income in order to take this job"
edit: look, I hate opportunists and careerists as much as the next gal but if you attack him for paying his workers, you're ensuring that the only people who will work on campaigns are opportunists and careerists.
electoralism's main problem is that it's reformist, necessarily so right now. that won't always be true and the last thing we need are people caught up in awful fucking mindsets like "don't pay your workers a fair wage" because that's how you erode non-reformist campaigns into recuperation and liberalism.
why is paying your staff scammy? like, dude had no campaign strategy that made any sense and the people who donated to him got scammed in that sense. but the part where he paid his campaign staff a fair wage before sinking all the money into ads is the part we should be praising him for. it means he's not an abusive, piece of shit boss.
Paying staff isn't wrong, but I think being volunteer-based would be perfectly forgiveable for such a small team.
If there's no money for campaigning, then what was the point to begin with? Like, if you have a campaign and you can afford it, pay your staff a good wage, but he didn't have a campaign.
yea, that's fair, but they had money and using it to pay staff first is good. better that than paying the money to a group of capitalists that will turn around and funnel the money (in the abstract) to your opponents.
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imagine saying this about literally any other group of workers. "uhh actually, you need to have other sources of income in order to take this job"
edit: look, I hate opportunists and careerists as much as the next gal but if you attack him for paying his workers, you're ensuring that the only people who will work on campaigns are opportunists and careerists.
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electoralism's main problem is that it's reformist, necessarily so right now. that won't always be true and the last thing we need are people caught up in awful fucking mindsets like "don't pay your workers a fair wage" because that's how you erode non-reformist campaigns into recuperation and liberalism.
Wow that rate of profit over time sure is falling