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by claudeganon 6y ago
This is a uniquely American notion of employment. “Do my bidding or be done away with” is not the norm across countries with strong unions and worker protections.
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by claudeganon 6y ago
Not universally though. In countries with stronger labor protections and unions, you can’t just fire people for philosophical disagreements (not without those disputes being mediated anyway). I don’t understand how we arrived at some concep
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by claudeganon 6y ago
Or they could just actually unionize instead of this reactive outrage. It’s unlikely Gebru would have been fired under these circumstances if she had a union contract.
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by claudeganon 6y ago
So if you don’t do what your boss says at a job, even if you disagree, your boss can fire you, and this is good. But if you tell your boss that they should do something or you’ll quit, this is bad and makes you unemployable. You realize tha
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by claudeganon 6y ago
Ever since GPT-3 was released, HN has been like this.
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by claudeganon 6y ago
Miles long breadlines, widespread homelessness, mass deaths from disease and despair, an indifferent, ravenous oligarch class, enough money spent to solve all these problems on pointless war in literally the exact same place where the USSR
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by claudeganon 6y ago
Even achieving something comparable to prior year’s flu vaccination would not bring us anywhere close to the herd immunity threshold though. I’m not as concerned with production of the vaccine itself as the logistics involved. I find it har
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by claudeganon 6y ago
Having a disease ravage a country, kill friends and family, while the government does almost nothing to help, with millions upon millions of people say it’s a hoax or conspiracy, tends to have that effect on people. The consequences of livi
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by claudeganon 6y ago
I’m skeptical that vaccine production and distribution will in the US will scale that well. I certainly hope that it will happen, but given that the country has failed on just about every other pandemic related front tempers my perspective.
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by claudeganon 6y ago
I agree that there is a broader diversity of a thought, but there’s also a dominant, conservative streak when it comes to deferring to corporate authority. This is unsurprising since many people on this site get paid a lot of money by the s
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by claudeganon 6y ago
Yes? The U.S. did worse than them too.
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by claudeganon 6y ago
Right, I was just responding to the question, whose posing is often used to suggest that the US is the best of all possible resource allocation worlds. I don't want to live under a regime like the CCP, but we did just run this experime
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by claudeganon 6y ago
The Chinese government is a horrible, authoritarian nightmare, but still somehow does better at managing the country's resources than the American ruling class. The pandemic, now over in China, while our nurses tape garbage bags to the
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by claudeganon 6y ago
>Is it hypothetical that a business that a retail business offers their employees lavish benefits and sells commodity products will be put out of business by lower prices from Walmart/Target/Amazon/Best Buy/etc? None
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by claudeganon 6y ago
Alcohol manufactures have also dumped massive amounts of money in lobbying against marijuana decriminalization because they don't want the competition.
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by claudeganon 6y ago
What do worker protections have to do with taxes? Again, what is stopping California Democrats from putting into place similar workplace protections as exist in the EU? In Germany for example, it's illegal for worker's to be surve
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by claudeganon 6y ago
California is controlled top-to-bottom by Democrats and still has remarkably poor worker protections by the standard of any other developed country and is even worse when you compare things like the state of housing, poverty, and healthcare
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by claudeganon 6y ago
The beliefs of individual members of the Democratic Party are largely irrelevant compared to how they function collectively as a political body at both the state and national level. With that view, they've been definitively anti-worker
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by claudeganon 6y ago
Yeah, its almost like by law in Norway, employers have to provide 25 days of paid leave, whereas in the US, people have to behave "irresponsibly" to have a semblance of a normal life, free of work.
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by claudeganon 6y ago
There's a bipartisan consensus that working people should be screwed. Uber's c-suite is staffed by Democratic Party insiders and they just got Prop 22 passed, Democratic leaders just came out in support of a stimulus bill that ind
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America Has Central Planners. We Just Call Them ‘Venture Capitalists.’(nymag.com)
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by claudeganon 6y ago
Not taking money from the people you’re covering is the barest minimum of journalistic ethics. Regardless, of whether you or I agree with anything else on that site, Adam Davidson, or whoever else, failing to meet that basic standard should
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by claudeganon 6y ago
It's a distinction without any real difference. You could make the same argument about Planet Money, an NPR show, that went out of the way to provide cover for the banks during the financial crisis, had their host attack Elizabeth Warr
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by claudeganon 6y ago
If you read something like the Financial Times, it’s actually far less propagandistic than most “business news.” It mostly just reports the raw, unfiltered reality of Capitalist exchange. There are actually quite a few Marxists who like the
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by claudeganon 6y ago
They hire H1Bs because it's much harder to change jobs with the visa. In an industry that otherwise has high turnover, even for people in the > $500k range, this gives the companies leverage over workers that they wouldn't othe
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by claudeganon 6y ago
It's not limited to the Bay Area. They do the same thing in the Midwest for industries with high-turnover. They use the same, obviously dishonest tactics, like only advertising positions in the classified sections of local newspapers,
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by claudeganon 6y ago
I mean this with all due respect, but highlighting NPR's own defense of their editorial practices is hardly convincing. NPR routinely runs editorial pieces that were pitched to them by corporate sponsors or their fronts like think tank
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by claudeganon 6y ago
See also Google conspiring to suppress worker wages for many years until they were caught and given a slap on the wrist.
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by claudeganon 6y ago
Neonazis were used to intimidate immigrant workers at Amazon facilities in Germany a few years ago, so it's not exactly "history" for "old comrades. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/euro
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by claudeganon 6y ago
You actually believe that NPR doesn’t edit articles to protect the people who fund them?

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