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by zeroname 7y ago
Do you have a source for that?
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by zeroname 8y ago
Just dump all the sorted garbage in sorted landfills. Recycling may become economical again at some point. In any event, future technology will deal with it better.
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by zeroname 8y ago
Put the technologies you used next to the projects you worked on. Just listing "Python" or "SQL" without context isn't meaningful. Similarly, it's not clear what you actually did in the projects. Write it mor
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by zeroname 8y ago
If the US had mandatory six to eight weeks paid leave, that would come out of the employee's paycheck . I don't see what's good or civilized about being forced to take a vacation. A lot of people are underemployed as-is, b
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by zeroname 8y ago
> Occassion and modus operandi are two entirely different precepts but you know this, yeah, and your trying ever-so hard to be pedantic. It is you who is being pedantic. My point is that working from home, as a developer, because of some
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by zeroname 8y ago
Believe it or not, an American parent can take a vacation day as well. The difference is, you're not forced to have vacation days and suffer lower pay for it. In any event, why have only five days? If five days is good, why aren&#x27
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by zeroname 8y ago
> Just because I'm "out of touch" with ordinary, less privileged workers doesn't equate to my experience and observations in the sector as being invalidated, yeah? It means your experience doesn't scale to broade
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by zeroname 8y ago
The cost isn't paid elsewhere. It's essentially going straight out of their own paycheck. Not immediately and in equal measure, but over time and on the average. It's effectively vacation days. Remember, everyone gets tho
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by zeroname 8y ago
> (specifically speaking of the technology sector, as that's what I have first-hand experience with) In other words, you're out of touch with ordinary, less privileged workers. > It really is a different world, over here. Th
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by zeroname 8y ago
Who is paying for those five extra days? Is it the health insurance? Your cost of health care will go up or service will get worse. Is it taxes? Your taxes will go up or money will be missing in the budget (or you will need to get more debt
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by zeroname 8y ago
Your own source: "Researchers from the Harvard Kennedy School who followed 122 men and women who had been released from the state prison in Massachusetts found that six months to a year after their release, just over half of the group
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by zeroname 8y ago
> Does this bet mean anything if the only employment you can get is 10 hours a week at minimum wage? Yes, because it's about relative rates. Unless you believe the EU is more "honest" about reporting unemployment numbers,
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by zeroname 8y ago
"And psychology aside, remember that the welfare state forces active workers to support the idle. So when regulation forces wages up, even the lucky workers who keep their jobs ultimately forfeit much of what they gain." Even a
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by zeroname 8y ago
> I've come to recognize you're conflating multiple related 'responsibility' concepts, swapping into the different modes when it's convenient. It's very similar to how you treated the term 'fair' e
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by zeroname 8y ago
It's "fair (market) price", not "fair market". > And the market, and economy, should serve the people. Not the people the market. This is a meaningless slogan. The market is the people. Demand reflects what peo
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by zeroname 8y ago
> But all too often the resources to pay a living wage exist but the market has been manipulated such that the labourer won't be able to claim that. These are orthogonal. A fair market price simply isn't equal to the price that
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by zeroname 8y ago
> And if the risk is being taken by a company, it has to pay for it - because it intends to reap the rewards? Not a woman or a negligent employee. First of all, this is criminal liability. Uber may still be held financially liable in a c
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by zeroname 8y ago
> I bet they will go after the driver now and try to place blame on her despite her having an impossible job What's impossible about watching the street and hitting the breaks if necessary, while testing a prototype self-driving car
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by zeroname 8y ago
> However, this is a societal issue and there needs to be some sort of referendum on this. Why? Where's the referendum on allowing people to drive vehicles? People cause 99% of accidents in the streets, as of today.
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by zeroname 8y ago
Look, this just doesn't disagree with what a "fair price" is. If "a man must live by his work" but the market doesn't afford it to him, then indeed "the race of such workmen could not last beyond the first
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by zeroname 8y ago
> radical unfettered libertarianism doesn't work I agree. > No it isn't, because absent laws people tend to do things like break your knees with a lead pipe if you're a union organizer. You keep dragging things out furt
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by zeroname 8y ago
No difference. A fair price doesn't imply "good" or "enough to live off". Ultimately, only so many people can live off a finite amount of land. The amount of labor regulates itself as well (i.e. less children are bo
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by zeroname 8y ago
> an unsophisticated economically distressed person is forced into taking a poisoned deal Forced by what ? By their personal situation? Even in this case, both sides stand to benefit. Any better hypothetical deal simply isn't on th
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by zeroname 8y ago
> You just grab a random yo-yo with a vehicle and a clean driving record and they start making you cash. Uber has been losing money ever since its inception, so it's clearly not making them so much cash. > For a Taxi there's
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by zeroname 8y ago
> But then history gave us a ton of examples of contracts which are negotiated in the context of a power or informational asymmetry. Boo. If there's a power difference to the point of coercion, it's coercion and one party is no
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by zeroname 8y ago
Taxis aren't very different things at all. That's why in many countries, Uber has been banned. They're regarded as taxis circumventing taxi regulations. > It really is a job platform designed to take advantage of people wh
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by zeroname 8y ago
I'm talking about a fair price. Wages are prices. A fair price is one that both parties agree to. Curiously, many people work for free . Is that unfair? I'm not talking about fairness in terms of equality. People are not equal in
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by zeroname 8y ago
There is no "servant economy" and these people are not servants. They're performing services that happen to not be well-paid, because virtually anyone can do them. You need virtually no education or skill. The "gig econo
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by zeroname 8y ago
> If you believe him, what does that mean for labor? It means you are fairly compensated for your work and you pay fair prices for the product of other people's work.
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by zeroname 8y ago
These companies are literally small businesses . They're not about maximizing profit or utility, they're about blowing venture capital in the search of biggest fool to pay the highest price in an IPO or acquisition. It's ind

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