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by cheesecracker 6y ago
Addendum: link for the population numbers of Blacks in the USA. Between 2010 and 2018 the percentage of the population that is Black has risen (as in most other years since early last century). No sign of ongoing genocide. https:/&#x2
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by cheesecracker 6y ago
I don't even want to work, but unfortunately food and shelter cost money. It's all a trade-off. Don't be a founder, but then you have to put up with crazy company politics, feeling of meaninglessness, having a boss, and so on
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by cheesecracker 6y ago
I think they removed that before going on their woke crusade, because they figured it is actually too vague. Different people consider different things evil. But for individuals, I think it is still an OK choice to make to not work for comp
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by cheesecracker 6y ago
I know it's tired to invoke the nazis, but think about this: would you work for a company that would offer your dream job, in your dream area of work, with a dream salary, and so on? The only catch would be that you would have to say &
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by cheesecracker 6y ago
But not "woke" activists, presumably.
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by cheesecracker 6y ago
Maybe your son would like a job board for jobs from woke companies instead.
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by cheesecracker 6y ago
I don't want to work in a job were activists can cancel me any time because I am a white heterosexual male. For example since they fired James Damore, I would never consider a job with Google. I don't like the activists, but I wou
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by cheesecracker 6y ago
That's not implied by the existence of a special interest job board. Many companies engage in woke politics and activism. How would you go about filtering them out on all the other job boards?
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by cheesecracker 6y ago
Why on earth should it not be OK for black people to use the service? And what is so "white" about it? Because black people are supposed to be activists and believe in identity politics? I follow plenty of black people on Twitter
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by cheesecracker 6y ago
Ironic, as that is exactly what the unwoke people think about the woke people. They see it as an ideology that you have to "take the knee" to, a ka "follow orders", to be accepted into the community.
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by cheesecracker 6y ago
People simply prefer to work for companies that are not evil. That's not "doing nothing", that's voting with their feet.
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by cheesecracker 6y ago
Same here, I just don't trust them enough to build on their API anymore.
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Unwoke – Jobboard for people that just want to work and not be activists(unwoke.hr)
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by cheesecracker 6y ago
Maybe some people (how many?) fail because of anxiety, but on the other hand, anybody who doesn't fail certainly has proven some minimal coding skills? I usually took it as a positive if companies did some basic coding skill test, show
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by cheesecracker 6y ago
I procrastinated switching to CSS sprites until HTTP/2 came around and made it superfluous, so I don't agree.
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by cheesecracker 6y ago
Just because somebody is rich, doesn't imply there are many resources. It's just a debt owed by society, which can also go bankrupt. Jeff Bezos earning another Billion does not imply more houses have been created or more plants ha
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by cheesecracker 6y ago
You can use the internet for two more years to learn, THEN go into the wilderness. I would even allow you to take some tools from industrialization, maybe a knife made from steel and proper clothing and a tent. Fair? As for suitable areas,
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by cheesecracker 6y ago
Very few people can afford to pay other people a living wage. What's your point? You only exhibit the socialist magic thinking again As if there are infinite resources, and the only problem is to redistribute them. That's not how
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by cheesecracker 6y ago
i say that "living wage" nonsense is hate speech. You are not just saying "oh those businesses can't afford to pay a living wage", you are saying they are greedy and make people poor and so on. And the full-time job
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by cheesecracker 6y ago
And why would you say that is the case? Bad personal finance skills (high mortgage, student debt...)? How many people even try to negotiate their work hours? I'd believe you if you claimed less than 10% even think about it, the others
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by cheesecracker 6y ago
We won't die because of that - pollution has gone down anyway, whether climate change will really become catastrophic has yet to be seen. But even if you believe it will - what's the point to anything? In the end everybody dies, n
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by cheesecracker 6y ago
They can afford to take a long holiday at the very least. Compared to other workers, certainly. Or maybe they prefer to live in expensive housing instead of paying for spare time. Why shouldn't it be their choice? As for factory worker
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by cheesecracker 6y ago
"In Demand" as in "can't find as many people as you want to fill the jobs". Unskilled work usually doesn't fall in that category.
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by cheesecracker 6y ago
It's a completely backwards way of thinking. A "business" or "entity" can afford to pay x for service y. If x is too low for you, don't take the job. That's it. It's pure fantasy to assume every emplo
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by cheesecracker 6y ago
Thanks for the info. Article doesn't mention the reasoning behind Ford's move, though. I still think the whole demand is completely backwards. Article also mentions the info workers who work 12 hours and more - well they do it bec
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by cheesecracker 6y ago
Thanks for the information. Nevertheless the claim that only Unions can reduce work hours is simply false. People can negotiate their contracts. Many people work less than 40 hour work weeks.
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by cheesecracker 6y ago
Nevertheless, you are still free to do it. Maybe join the Amish, for starters (although afaik they don't shun all technology). In any case, you can get together with a group of friends and live the way you imagine. There are enough peo
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by cheesecracker 6y ago
Which jobs would that be, can you give some examples?
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by cheesecracker 6y ago
Complete bullshit. Do a job that is actually in demand, then nobody can force you to work more than you want. And the 8 hour work day was supposedly introduced by Ford, not by Unions.
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by cheesecracker 6y ago
Number of poor people has gone down thanks to industrialization - even while at the same time total population numbers have exploded. https://humanprogress.org/article.php?p=508

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