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by beckman466 6y ago
> Though by then the damage has already been done. Wow that sounds severe, what damage was done?
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by beckman466 6y ago
This has been happening for years in the global south (developing countries). Global north firms buy huge swathes of land to build factories on, to cut down rainforests and dump their waste. The government officials (always supported by US
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by beckman466 6y ago
> When the average person can't write a short story, can't draw, can't do anything creative (in the generative sense), but instead relies on consuming pre-packaged experiences for entertainment The cause of this is the con
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by beckman466 6y ago
> Source: That IT guy worked for me at lockheed, the IT CIO was my boss at Lockheed - and I know their level of corruption.... Jesus. Hackernews is one hell of a website
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by beckman466 6y ago
Thanks for explaining. And jesus, if this is not late capitalism then I’m not sure what is. Through the phenomenon of tipping everyone becomes a Caeser-like philanthropist, making life or death choices based on the perceived suffering and
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by beckman466 6y ago
Thank you. Can’t believe this has to be said.
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by beckman466 6y ago
> Can we talk about why service is astronomically better in the US than countries with very high worker protections and base wages like Denmark? I’m curious why ‘good service‘ is important for you? Have you worked a service job yourself?
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by beckman466 6y ago
> If people aren't willing to do the job for the hourly wage alone with no tips, raise the wage until they are. Agree with the first part, but would rephrase this second part as: If people aren't able to live off a minimum wag
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by beckman466 6y ago
I’m not sure there’s a difference between them like you make out. I would argue the social depends on the technical and vice versa. Do you have an example to help me understand what you see or mean?
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> especially for women, who are severely under-represented in construction and heavy industry Seems an odd thing to mention/focus on. Any specific reason for including this?
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> Can anyone familiar with policy making in gig economy companies explain why the spokesperson wasn’t told to say, “We think it’s not okay. Going forward, the first offense for a restaurant that denies bathroom access to a driver will be
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by beckman466 6y ago
> Somehow I fail to see how this is surprising. Yes! who cares about the lives of such lowly peasants. /s
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by beckman466 6y ago
You hear that Uber eats riders? you peasants, you! You too can make the news in just under 1,000 years, after you've fallen into a swamp (with your body staying preserved), after splitting your head on a rock, after going 30mph a
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by beckman466 6y ago
'GitHub Should Start an App Store' ...or we should all join the distributed app revolution made possible by holochain's DHT+git+signatures+gossip Rails-like distributed app framework, and use holo's app store to download