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by firstplacelast 2y ago
You don't have to unionize in a set way, just like there's no one way to write an employment contract. If anything, the tech industry should be leading the world in new ideas and methods (and dare I say it...technology) to organiz
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by firstplacelast 2y ago
I was reading murder Wikipedia the other day and one of the guys got out of prison the second time and was able to pick up a job making 1k/week in the late 70’s (49-50k/year) in SoCal. That’s what I was making a decade ago in SoCa
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by firstplacelast 2y ago
I would love to just see a hyperlocal minimum wage set in CA that's tied to housing prices. Live in enclaves with an average home of 10M dollars, your house cleaner will need to be paid $500/hour type thing.
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by firstplacelast 2y ago
Or we could not do that and mint more millionaires.
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by firstplacelast 2y ago
It seems like the best course of action is to tie minimum wage to housing costs (on a per-county or city basis), this would help ensure the ownership class has to balance the costs of assets and labor. If you want cheap labor, housing costs
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by firstplacelast 2y ago
Disagree. People are paid based on value-extraction, not value-generation. They are correlated, but are vastly different metrics.
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by firstplacelast 3y ago
Yep, and the kicker is these are the types that put “good communication skills” on their job requisitions. Upper management can’t communicate anything worthwhile, mid-levels have varying levels of English from varying first-languages and ne
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by firstplacelast 3y ago
I make salsa once a month and have noticed this the last couple years. Occasionally get a spicy batch, but more often am adding habaneros to bring up the heat. I made a verde for the Super Bowl a couple weeks ago and tried to keep it mild s
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by firstplacelast 3y ago
I started an interview at fly like 1.5 years ago. Figured I’d give it a shot, they were very responsive, gave me the challenge and I spent more time than was suggested. They had a few core technologies I was not familiar with at all, but fi
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by firstplacelast 3y ago
Hopefully next time the tech market is in an upswing, we can unionize?
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by firstplacelast 3y ago
I took a fully-remote position a month before lock-down started. Didn’t ever think it was a possibility before that position, but those positions have been out there for a long time. It works really well when companies/departments are
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by firstplacelast 3y ago
This is what I'm hoping for the future, so many will be so poor we won't have mortgages or kids, nothing to lose. But I doubt it.
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by firstplacelast 3y ago
Hey, pretty things are hard. Why isn’t half of HN looking their best at least once a week? It costs money and time. I work with people in shirts that are only befitting for elementary school kids. You can have the niceties, just have to pay
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by firstplacelast 3y ago
That is interesting, worth a think. Thanks for sharing.
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by firstplacelast 3y ago
Even 5 years ago, friends that are physicians have been balking at their wages. Even as specialists, they’re very well compensated, but living in any decent sized city has left them feeling ripped off. I mean, they’ll be fine. They’ll have
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by firstplacelast 3y ago
Years ago I was hiring a mechanic to look at a used car. Car and him were in a city a few hours a way, so I lined him up to meet me at the dealership. Website and reviews went back years and had good reviews (which can always be manipulated
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by firstplacelast 3y ago
I shadowed at the county morgue for a few weeks a long time ago. When there was not an autopsy to observe, I was given access to their case files, which were color-coded by cause-of-death (natural causes/homicide/suicide/etc)
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by firstplacelast 3y ago
Society does not do that. They can extract more capital, so they’re considered more important. If gardeners were paid 500k/year, they would be exalted. It has nothing to do with the work or the value provided to society. People just lo
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by firstplacelast 3y ago
Look, lots of people are just…stupid. Ignorant. Uninformed. The median IQ is 100, it’s calibrated that way. Meaning half of people have an IQ lower than that. A lot of money is spent to convince/coerce people of all sorts of bull-shit.
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by firstplacelast 3y ago
Maybe we should all learn from real estate agents and price our labor at a % of the median home price within 1 hour commute to our offices? While I do think RE agents are overpaid in expensive markets, I also kind of think...good for them.
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by firstplacelast 3y ago
While true, we kind of need those people to die every year. More people living contributes to a greater labor pool, which reduces wages. It leaves a greater demand on housing, increasing costs and making so many peoples’ lives more difficul
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by firstplacelast 3y ago
As far as I am aware, it is time at the hospital. So they can sleep a bit, but it is not much. These are smart people, they do not want it to change. Their income would decrease if more people were trained/brought in. Have a lot of phy
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by firstplacelast 3y ago
That is a lot and while I agree somewhat it is lacking empathy, I think. I'm an introvert, I remember craving friendly interaction 6-months in and then being worried about my extrovert friends. If I am feeling crazy about the lack of h
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by firstplacelast 3y ago
As someone that worked in biotech/pharma for a decade, they LOVE to roll out the sick-people porn and talk about how we’re all making the world a better place…it helps them pay people less. They can occasionally do some good things, bu
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by firstplacelast 3y ago
No, I don't. It is about bottom-up accountability. Expecting top-down accountability is stupid and a recipe for an unhappy life. We need to teach people to stand-up for themselves, not expect those above them to eventually accommodate
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by firstplacelast 3y ago
I've thought about his often, too, but I am of the opinion we can all thrive together or die together. As much as I would love to have 20-million in the bank, live off interest, and have the working class cater to my every need, it&#x2
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by firstplacelast 3y ago
I feel it. I’ve been looking at the FBI. It would still be 80% desk work, but better than 100%. Wage is still a step back and I’m nearing the age cut-off, so would have to jump on it pretty soon.
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by firstplacelast 3y ago
Have one. Doesn’t solve the problem. I need to move and context switch (ideally).
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by firstplacelast 3y ago
Yep. Spent a summer working in a blue collar fashion for a small company. It was fun-ish, but the owner was at a desk all day.
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by firstplacelast 3y ago
Easier said than done. Outside of sales, what job on your feet pays 200k+/year? Hate sitting at a desk, been diagnosed, and not into sales. Not trying to be combative, would love suggestions. I partly want to go bar-tend or be a plumbe

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