The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.

Over the last week, the guide has surged to become the 5th-most-accessed book on Project Gutenberg, an open source repository of free and public domain ebooks. It is also the fifth most popular ebook on the site over the last 30 days, having been accessed nearly 60,000 times over the last month (just behind Romeo and Juliet).

Direct link to the book (without the backref):

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184

  • Flying Squid
    1•3 hours ago

    Sure sounds like you consider it acceptable to me, especially since you admit it won’t affect you at all:

    So there’s your number, 44,789 people dying per year to achieve the goal of universal healthcare in the US. I however live in a country that already has universal health care, so I thankfully wouldn’t have to make such a grim decision. It’s easy to engage in such calculations without having to have the emotional burden of potentially condemning thousands to suffer and die.

    So basically this entire time you’ve been expecting other people to make sacrifices that you won’t have to make. Which is pretty shitty.

    • @[email protected]
      1•3 hours ago

      I’m not expecting anything, I’m talking entirely theoretically. I’m not asking anyone to do anything, I’m speculating on what I would do in that situation.

      If I’m in a situation where I’m solving the trolley problem by equation, which track I’m on is not a factor. Or to put it as simple as I can. If I had to be one of those who die, it would not change my thoughts on what would be acceptable.

      • Flying Squid
        1•3 hours ago

        This entire time, you have been defending someone who says there should be a general strike where everyone walks off their job regardless if kids starve or are taken away from them for neglect and regardless of whether or not kids die.

        And suddenly you aren’t expecting anything?

        Have you read anything the person you have been defending has written? Including the part where they say naming imaginary people as spies is dangerous?

        • @[email protected]
          2•3 hours ago

          Ah, I see where the miscommunication happened. Only my first response was a defence of them, and only as far as the comment you were responding to. Their opinions are theirs and mine are mine.

          I don’t think a general strike is a remotely plausible possibility, it simply requires more labour organisation and willingness endure hardship than what currently exists. Me going into hypotheticals and theoreticals is based on this. You’re right that If it were somehow we’re to happen, the suffering would be immense and I don’t know of any remotely realistic goal that it could achieve that would justify it. There’s a lot wrong with society but I don’t see how bringinging it all to a stop would do much to help.

          The main point I initially tried to make(but got very sidetracked from) is that just because someone is advocating for a course of action that causes harm in persuit of a goal, it doesn’t mean they are ignorant or uncaring of the harm. But rather that they believe that the end justifies the means.

          Sorry for the confusion.