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I'm about 25% of the way through The Box, a book ostensibly about the shipping container but so far really about how much the Longshoremen have always hated both automation and having their pay tied to actual usefulness.

5:36 PM · Nov 20, 2024

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Shai Manor

@Sha1Manor

Nov 20

Learned way more about politics and unions than I did about shipping from this book. Incredible eye opener.

So far same

great book - opened my mind to how much we pay as a society just to keep some people employed

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A #1, Emperor of the North Pole

@railboss

Nov 20

I got the same impression when I read it. Containerization also cut down on a lot of pilferage. Still happens, but less than before.

Great book.

Thomas Mattimore (tmattimore.eth)

@mattimost

Nov 21

One of my favorites ever

Steve Nadel

@StevenNadel

Nov 20

It's a wonder to me how we haven't applied antitrust law against the longshoreman. It might be the most important nongovernmental concentration of power in the country.

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Lynne Kiesling-Knowledge Problem

@knowledgeprob

Nov 21

Such a great book. And once you see it as an example of standardization and modularity, you see it all over.

I remember being in college back in 2000, not really knowing anything, but when I heard how much a longshoreman made it felt ridiculous.

I have friends that work for some shipping companies in town and the stories they have about those guys are *bonkers*

exactly..its like fighting against something that is inevitable.

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@prasincs@infosec.exchange

@prasincs

Nov 21

Yep. Great book. I finally got through it too. Malcolm McLean was pretty badass

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Also cargo theft by longshoremen

Paul Hamrick

@HamrickPaul

Nov 20

I moved to ATL in ‘07 & there was an old man who lived across the hall who had worked lots of odd jobs over the years, one involved to conventions and setting up booths. When he went to do a job in New Jersey he could not believe the behavior of the unionized New Jersey natives.

Vampires

Some of the worst people in the country

shame that the longshoremen's shakedown of the Democrats and the country as a whole has been swept under the rug for another four years

P¥$$Y in Tw€€t$

@s5z7djr2vp

Nov 20

Cool new Readwise feature adding images of self-asphyxiation

Very interesting book. A development that profoundly changed the world.

That’s because you’re a cunt and you don’t know the history of a wildly dangerous and precariously paid job y

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