IanDrake

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by IanDrake 8y ago
Yeah, except that in reality there have been and still are working examples of people voluntarily being able to join unions. So I’m not sure why you’re so sure you’re right when the real world contradicts your predictions.
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Assuming we’re still talking about a union having an exclusive deal with a company to provide labor... >How is it a bad idea for the union members? The paradox of this question is that you have to be a union member to get the job. If
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And you’ve never had one, ever. So mock my limited, yet actual, experience while you arm chair philosophize about how many people unions have helped in your imagination.
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If a union is so good then a company would not be able to hire anyone outside of the union because everyone would want to be in the union. It’s a voluntary system. Anything else is just tyranny.
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I take it that’s a no for you. I’ve only ever had one union job (at a young age) and that told me everything I need to know about unions. Ultimately if you’re not getting paid what you’re worth, that’s on you. Or you’re wrong about what yo
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Just curious if you’ve ever worked in a union job? I have and my experience was that you will never get paid what you’re worth - if you’re talented. So if you want to argue that people with less talent can make more money with unions, I wou
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If the company agrees to it, I don’t see why not. It sounds like a bad idea for everyone except the union leaders, but I’ve seen other non-union based agreements like this where companies completely outsourced HR. As a Union leader though,
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I believe people have a right to unionize so long as that is balanced out with a company's right to not hire anyone from a union. Free association has two sides.
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No, the other questions are: 1) Does your union represent you as talent or just by your seniority? 2) How much more (or less if you're talented) do you make now because you're unionized? 3) How much are you forced to PAY to the un
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You're asking two different questions. First, when one human kills another human, it's either a legally justified killing or murder. The majority of policy killings are justified and not murder. So that's "what else&qu
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Police murders are exceptionally rare in the US. Where are you getting your stats from? Also note, you used the word “murder” wrong. Perhaps you meant something else?
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“Why” is far more important than how many.
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“Global warming ... has us fucked left, right, and sideways.” That is a big claim that requires adequate proof to which none was offered. Besides click bait articles which attempt to suggest everything is caused by GW, there is actually ver
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I'm really not sure what the point of this article is. Is it saying people are equal? Because they're not. "All men are create equal" doesn't mean all people are equal. In fact, we know all people aren't c
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Google developed a far left employee culture and then expected their employees to help the military. They don’t seem to understand how those two things are mostly incompatible.
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The article had an interesting title, but the actual text quickly descended into comparing hard science like physics with soft sciences like political science and sociology. Basically, if you’re a flat earther you’re pro brexit and trump.
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I’m so confused my these new political identities and partnerships. “Libertarian Socialist” “Anarcho Communists” None of this makes sense and I can’t help feel like someone just made this up because it sounded good when they where high.
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>If you’re below 90 you’ll likely have a rough life. Not according to the author... “IQ scores are a measure of a person’s intellectual ability, not the limit of their intellectual potential.” If the author is right, a mentally disabled
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While I see your point, YouTube doesn’t work if you get demonetized or banned. I’ve played in other company’s ecosystems twice and went out of business both times when I got the boot. One doesn’t actually have a business when relying on an
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The biggest threat to YouTube is YouTube. Censorship is getting out of hand and demonetizing/banning sucessful tubers is making people ask questions. Questions like: Should I continue to invest in this platform or start moving my vie
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Your immutable identity means nothing to me. If you believe that homogeneous identities produce homogeneous ideas, you’re mistaken. Good ideas come from good people who are a good fit for their role. Without meritocracy, how do we discrimi
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A long time ago I built an app to monitor online retailers for items that were hard to find in-stock. It would send me text alerts so I could buy them before they went out of stock again. I made it into a business for a while, then the ret
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I didn’t mean to suggest that one is not allowed to question religion (these days), I meant questioning religion becomes either a useless spiral of circular logic or you finally wind up at the point I made about faith. That’s been my experi
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It’s not hard to “believe”, but it’s impossible to prove. Theological debates usually end up with the creationist position being that belief without proof equals faith, there for proof is not desired. Science is skepticism, religion is unqu
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I suppose we’re starting with two different assumptions. My assumption is UBI is tax free OR UBI is taxable income but the first $12,000 of income is tax free. Same difference, different language. Your assumption would be that UBI is taxibl
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I’m not sure why you’re doing mental gymnastics on this one. There is a simple answer. 300,000,000 - US population $12,000 - Your UBI amount Total cost: 3.6 trillion dollars. Projected US tax collection for 2019: 3.4 trillion. That’s not t
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This is probably the best argument for socialism I’ve ever heard. We must, must, give up the abundance that capitalism provides for the vast majority of people so kids can...play more video games? This is Poe’s law at its finest. I really
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That’s interesting and I see your point. While I realize addicts might be victims of circumstance and not just victims of their own bad choices, at some point we have to prioritize safety. Are parks for tax payers and their children to enjo
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Am I crazy or does systematic tolerance (not legalization) of drug use yield more drug use? Or at least more demanding drug users? Likewise, does systematic tolerance of homelessness yield more homelessness? Seems like condoning these beha
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Nowhere did the OP say she should declare bankruptcy, so I’m not sure why you said the OP is clueless. I believe the OP understands the author is stuck with the loan. Your opinion about fraud is also unsupported. Even the author conceeds s

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