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by briandon 14y ago
A : So you have three 49-person companies ... That's odd. B : I employ no more than 49 people in each of my companies and start new companies as necessary to avoid sharing profits with my employees, having to deal with worker councils, a
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by briandon 14y ago
Ultra-skilled workers in developing countries tend to make their way to developed countries in order to earn more. That leaves low/un-skilled workers behind. Both Romania and Bulgaria have been in the EU since 2007 and in two more years (20
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by briandon 14y ago
How are we supposed to ascertain the difference between a loophole that we should pretend not to notice, versus an engineered incentive, where the regulators are intentionally giving us a nudge to behave in that way? Use empathy. (1.) Ima
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by briandon 14y ago
Meaningless, valueless endeavors like the once-a-week meeting that Haan was terrified of having to have with representatives of his own workforce? Or is government mandated profit-sharing the meaningless valueless endeavor? Somehow, inexpl
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by briandon 14y ago
How often do you think that the French government is changing the social security contribution requirements? Every week? W/re to "menu costs", if you're running a restaurant in Weimar-era Germany or some other milieu where hyperinflation i
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by briandon 14y ago
The severance package that those workers got was fought for by their workers' council (the institution that terrified Haan, another businessperson quoted in the same article). Without the requirement that 49-worker-plus enterprises have wor
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by briandon 14y ago
Eighty percent of youths are employed. Of the one fifth who are not, it's likely that many of them are able to rely upon their parents or older, employed siblings for support while they themselves are seeking employment. Weaken employee pr
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by briandon 14y ago
No, the labor code is not preventing companies from expanding. The greed of the company owners/directors/management is preventing them from expanding. They don't want to share profits with their employees or have to rub shoulders with them
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by briandon 14y ago
My username is clearly attached to each comment, so your complaint has no merit.
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People running multiple 49-worker companies and opening satellite factories up in developing countries to avoid sharing profits with their workforce(s), having once-a-week meetings, and the like are struggling to break even? If you would li
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by briandon 14y ago
Since the workers in both shops were, as you say, equally skilled, what was the wage differential between the French and Eastern European workers performing equivalent jobs. They weren't being paid the same wages, were they? I'm doubtful th
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“For the 100 employees we have in France, we have 10 employee representatives, for whom we have to organize weekly meetings even when there is nothing to discuss,” Haan says. “Every time a social security contribution chang
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by briandon 14y ago
How about this for an incentive: Want your children to grow up in a developed country with a social safety net so that they won't trip over toothless senior citizens scavenging for recyclables in garbage bins to sell for spare change to pay
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by briandon 14y ago
Tired of delays in getting orders filled, Pierrick Haan, CEO of Dupont Medical (not to be confused with chemical company DuPont (DD)), decided last year to return production of some wheelchairs and medical equipment to Fran
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Bottom-lining it: Business owners and managers want to enjoy the benefits of a developed economy with a humane social safety net and strong worker protections (i.e. an educated, skilled workforce) but will move heaven and earth to weasel th
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by briandon 14y ago
Putting encrypted files into a "cloud" service seems more likely to lead to a situation where the file owner is placed in a windowless, soundproofed room somewhere and offered a choice between decrypting those files or being sodomized with
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by briandon 15y ago
The Getty Images process doesn't sound too terrible to me. Is the up-to-a-week wait partly a consequence of GI giving the photog a chance to approve/deny the request? That would be reasonable -- they might not want, for example, a Neo-Nazi
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by briandon 15y ago
The photo associated with the "The World Through a Looking Glass" post contradicts the theme of the "The impact of humanity on Earth is humbling from orbit." paragraph. Also it's a bit of a downer to read something like "We are wedded to t
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by briandon 15y ago
Having reread the original article, I see that UA did in fact raise their offer after he asked for a higher-than-previously-agreed-upon royalty: For the next three months, Under Armour refused a face-to-face meeting but did make conc
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by briandon 15y ago
> I'm thinking Rudy's done pretty well on a meagre one percent. Has he? If he has, then great. I wouldn't be shocked to learn that other shoe tech inventors (especially those preceding him) got even less than he did and that someone a
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by briandon 15y ago
Also, public libraries aren't necessarily the best venues for Internet usage, free law clinics, resume-writing/job assistance, etc. A community center that also has a library component, maybe.
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When I've ventured to my local public libraries, except for the children's section, the stacks have been pretty dusty. I haven't borrowed a book from a library myself in at least 5 years. I purchase a lot of books (paper books) -- mostly f
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by briandon 15y ago
Public libraries (in the traditional, physical-book-filled sense) are probably a doomed institution. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_of_library_usage Maybe they can hold on as free Internet cafes, since that seems to be how many peop
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Hong Kongers planning to take any of the Jan 2012 Stanford online courses?
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The good news is that he got his wife back after he began to succeed / get traction.
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Homeworks must be completed individually, and while we encourage students to help each other learn, homework assignments must be your own work and not done with a group. As with the homeworks, exams must be completed individually without
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by briandon 15y ago
What's stopping the SCADA software companies from taking on the integration work themselves?
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It's like opting out of vaccinations for fatal/life-threatening diseases. As long as you don't contract that disease, you'll be fine and patting yourself on the back regarding your prudence at avoiding unnecessary vaccinations/mercury/what
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From the post: A few years ago, before the CEO cared a whit about social networking or identity, a Google User Experience researcher named Paul Adams created a slide deck called the Real Life Social Network. In a very long and well-illustr
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I'm not trying to spook you, but be sure to remind your family members to check for you in your basement nest if they can't find/reach you elsewhere. It would be awful to experience a stroke or something similar, be unable to call for help,

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