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by 49531 8y ago
Theft isn't inherently tied to violence. It's easy to think of someone breaking into your home with a ski mask on, instead of embezzlement or pirating software. I would argue that wage theft is a bigger problem in the sense that t
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by 49531 8y ago
> reduction in wage theft is going to be mirrored by a drop in the amount of wealth available. In a situation where wage theft is happening and then it stops happening, the money doesn't get thrown in a garbage bin. The stolen money
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by 49531 8y ago
Older unions in the US has a bad rap as well, but I think a lot of that is corporate propaganda to be honest. Like, the idea of having a labor lawyer at your disposal is an incredible benefit to you. I am sure wage theft is a little harder
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by 49531 8y ago
There are ways to strengthen labor outside of running of office. If you work in a corporation you can begin to organize your co workers. If you can't do that, you can get involved with local organizations and help others organize their
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by 49531 8y ago
Honestly over 40 hours should be OT. I feel like a lot of tech workers feel like they have cush jobs which will become less liberal if they start drawing lines in the sand. Our labor is early in its commodification though. As we become less
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by 49531 8y ago
Organized labor is the only way to combat this kind of abuse. Workers cannot rely on policy makers or corporations to do it for them. Organizing doesn't mean forming an official legal union, or joining an already established union (in
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by 49531 8y ago
> relieved of the guilt of being poor That kind of sums it up right there. Most wealthy people in this country didn't become wealthy because they were able to save money while working for $15/hr. You can't save your way ou
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by 49531 8y ago
The problem is one-sided, it's a trope to blame poor people for not being frugal enough when lower income wages have stagnated over the last 40 years. The wealthy in America are relieved of guilt if it's not their fault poor peopl
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by 49531 8y ago
I tend to shy away from UBI in favor of something like a guaranteed federal jobs program. My fear is that UBI will tempt policy makers to cut social programs. "We gave you money, buy your own medical insurance". With guaranteed jo
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by 49531 8y ago
> Corporations are ultimately meant to be agents that further the public good. Corporations have rarely (if ever) been meant to further public good. They have almost always been for "unrestrained pursuit of profit to the exclusion o
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by 49531 9y ago
I'd say extreme moderation is probably the opposite of toxic.
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by 49531 9y ago
I am so glad to see this happening! There are a lot of reasons why game workers need to organize, but it doesn't have to stop there. Tech workers in general can make the lives of their teammates a lot better by banding together. We can
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by 49531 9y ago
Half of what you just said is neoliberal anti-union propaganda. A lot of people in blue collar unions get a ton of value from them. Teamsters and Boilermakers have rights protected by their unions. Yea unions have lost battles or become cor
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by 49531 9y ago
All unions have concrete ways to make people's lives better. That's why they exist. This website glosses over them but they are pretty basic. Things like open salaries, control over agile process, overtime for on-call, overtime pa
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by 49531 9y ago
Companies are typically careful to keep employees atomized enough to prevent the disgruntled from organizing. Typically they suffer in isolation and just job hop until they find a place they enjoy working at. There are also small things com
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by 49531 9y ago
Meh, I like to think of it like my other utilities. They're, in a lot of cases, monopolies granted by government, but they seem to work fairly well in most places. Allowing corporations to benefit from natural monopolies without regula
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by 49531 9y ago
Yea, I don't know that it does really. If anything making it more of a utility entrenches existing players. That being said I think that net neutrality promotes competition on the internet as a whole, which I think is more impactful an
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by 49531 9y ago
I'm lucky to work where I do. We have the best system I've seen for growing junior developers. Our team is about 60 engineers and I'd say close to 20 of them are from non-traditional backgrounds (coding bootcamps or self taug
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by 49531 9y ago
This seems weirdly inverted to my boy scouting experience (in San Diego). Our training put a huge emphasis on filtering our water before we drank it, it was considered fool-hearty to drink water from a river or stream before filtering. Anyt
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by 49531 9y ago
I've worked 100% remote for nearly 4 years now and I can definitely say that I'll never go back to working in an office if I can help it. Yea there are different challenges. You have to over communicate and be available, but avail
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More breaking changes coming to React Router(github.com)
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by 49531 9y ago
Yea I found the window a bit harder to control as well. I'm also really bummed because I'm not sure how I am going to help my little sister learn to code now that we can't screenhero together. Not gonna make a paid slack chan
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by 49531 9y ago
Having recently gone from living with others to alone I can say having my dog has made it a wonderful experience. She makes me go outside several times per day, and brings me back down to reality when I'm caught up in my work. It'
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by 49531 9y ago
A lot of the negatives listed here can be mitigated with companies taking a little ownership of having remote team members. For instance, being as available as possible is not fun 100% of the time. While timezones may separate you, if a com
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by 49531 9y ago
The point is that corporations encourage mental health only inasmuch as it promotes their own ends.
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by 49531 9y ago
Roblox is a really interesting game. My kids all love it from the 3y/o to the teenagers. The games are mostly very amateurish and buggy (from what I've experienced) but the whole thing is like a web browser for games. Has a very e
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by 49531 9y ago
Hey this is awesome. I've been working on a webrtc project and will def look into using this!
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by 49531 9y ago
I don't know anything about this, but is there a possibility of this having negative unintended side effects?
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by 49531 9y ago
>The Times describes some founders who put up with unwanted sexual advances because they were desperate to raise money for their startups. There’s an old-fashioned word for what these ladies are doing that I shan’t repeat here. What? I&#
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by 49531 9y ago
Vocalizing your stream of consciousness is very handy any time you are programming in front of others. I have found it to be especially useful during interviews, or while working with mentors/mentees.

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