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by bsanr2 7y ago
Market forces shaped by poor zoning and building codes. $800/m is still precarious for roughly twice minimum wage. Food is also more expensive and harder to get to in less upscale areas of most cities.
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What's your personal incentive to believe and spread this falsehood?
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The question then becomes at what "time to task completion" and "size of task repertoire" does a job become economically viable for an employer. I tend to think that the line between unskilled and skilled, barring educat
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The living conditions of poverty decrease cognitive capacity. So, in the cases where low-income households are not exceedingly proficient at stretching a dollar, there's an explanation for that, outside their control. In any case, yo
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by bsanr2 7y ago
Right. That's the stated policy, for jobs that pay a few thousand dollars a year short, at full time, of making a bare-bones life affordable. So for those who have to have a second job, or who rely on inadequate public transportation,
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by bsanr2 7y ago
Except for the ways explained above that those conditions serve to make leaving difficult.
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Labor is one of the largest expenses in part because it has to account for the inefficiencies introduced by turnover (including on-ramping, i.e., training). Many of the jobs deemed "unskilled" actually do require skill and experie
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It's interesting to note that expectations for the limits of what's acceptable for labor are defined by, "Is it as bad as slavery?" And for what it's worth, there is indeed "jobs" in this country that are
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by bsanr2 7y ago
It's a way to tip the turnover scales in favor of the employer. Dangerous jobs weed out the people who care enough to complain about conditions that are less dangerous but still degrading. If you're willing to put up with situatio
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by bsanr2 7y ago
>Tech Bros are the nerds that were (and still are, despite shallow appropriations of nerd culture in the mainstream) cast off from "normal" society. I'd counter with something more radical for HN: that "Tech Bros&quot
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Me? Sure. Multiply that by the number of internet users globally, and the number of interactions they have with these sites. A half second of distraction is double-digit man-years every day. Or, you can think of it in the context of how eas
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>I’m not sure exit intent pop ups are the same as polluting finite natural resources My time is finite, and so is my ability to reset focus once distracted. Pop-ups add up.
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I am. As another user mentioned, Liberia was essentially colonized by a Western power. It's a shocking example of the virulence of the culture of exploitation that pervaded the Americas at the time.
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Are you saying that that is something that an individual cannot personally change, or something that is impossible to change as a general rule?
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>An Israeli/American-owned telecommunications company tries to oust the dominant Liberian-owned company in Liberia, using unsavory tactics meant to shame and humiliate the latter and its users, eventually hoping to sell out to a Fre
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The Bias of ‘Professionalism’ Standards(ssir.org)
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Let me flip that: why would you create more money when there's already plenty to go around, just that it's locked up in tax havens, and only used to allow the wealthy to live, effectively, for free? If inflation is a menace, why w
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That's only with a limited supply of product. Instead, I see a throwaway culture, where we have a surfeit of product such that anything not perfect is thrown away (safe but expired food, appliances with dents in them, electronics with
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by bsanr2 7y ago
This is why the Tea Party wave was so devastating: not because of their ideology, but because they swept into office with little experience in policy or the topics they were then appointed to committees to govern. Compare to, say, AOC: much
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>However, if they were forced to pay more taxes and therefore paid less to their employees/hired less... This isn't a given, and most companies would rather pay the taxes and see less profit, than sabotage their labor and fold
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by bsanr2 7y ago
You're mistaken, as I was simply trying to draw attention to the fact that the motivations, and therefore salves, for a) a mass shooter who enters a soft target and kills strangers indiscriminately, and b) a "mass shooter" wh
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by bsanr2 7y ago
We have different definitions of mass shooters. I assume you advocate strongly, with great investments of time, energy, and money, to alleviate the ones I would say you're including erroneously, yes?
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The problem today isn't access to information, it's access to time and focus. Because wages are so low and basic costs so high, it is very difficult for people who didn't manage to stay on the 1st-class career track to make w
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by bsanr2 7y ago
Right. The point that gets missed is that the contention is often less about the nuances of any particular firearm's capabilities and more about the common intentions of their use. EVERY gun is violent in the hands of someone trying to
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But you're not getting paid. Your company is getting paid, and then you're using credit against your company's assets to pay your expenses. You, for all intents and purposes, are volunteering. Maybe your company has to sell s
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by bsanr2 7y ago
I imagine turning yourself in for even a felony is not as life-shattering in Norway as it is in America. Considering the number of people who die in jail awaiting trial for misdemeanors, let alone those who lose their jobs or have their pro
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by bsanr2 7y ago
What's the rate of pension funds that have actually paid out their initial promise? How many have ceased to exist?
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What I don't understand about this is... Why can't I partake? If my employer is based out of these havens for tax purposes, why can't they pay "me" by paying into the bank account of the foreign on-paper-only compan
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by bsanr2 7y ago
Revealing someone's first name constitutes doxxing?
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by bsanr2 7y ago
ERHS is in Prince George's County, which, while well-off as far as majority-black counties go, is far from the wealthiest in the area (due in part to the structural difficulties of building and maintaining black/brown wealth in Am

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