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by dls2016 5y ago
> Welcome to the terrible world of tipping. While I agree, I remember bartenders making $10/hr + tips when I worked in a restaurant... in 1998. I could make $10/hr washing dishes (always the most hard-to-staff position) but wou
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by dls2016 5y ago
I have just the slogan for you: "No Political Slogans!"
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> Sorry to say but who ever decided that the phrase "defund the police" is good or smart made a huge mistake. Yet we're here talking about it, repeating the phrase. So I disagree.
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The original articles on this are already very sympathetic to capital, and so that’s the direction of my criticism. The story suggests we should feel bad for the railroad companies without any investigating whether the company itself could
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I was downvoted in other threads for suggesting (perhaps in a ham handed fashion) that we shouldn’t rush to trust these one-sided articles about the rail theft in LA and shoplifting in SF. People are surprisingly quick to suggest we throw m
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by dls2016 5y ago
> I looked around for a while, a d I can't actually find a list of any mergers that antitrust regulations actually prevented. A lot has been written about the decline of antitrust enforcement in the US since 1970. https:/&#x2F
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Government or police? Government enforces pollution laws and will step in over wage theft. But you can't call 911 and say "my boss stole from my paycheck!" whereas that happens all the time with shoplifting. Why must the gove
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by dls2016 5y ago
Railroads already have police, armored cars are allowed armed guards (as do other high-value shipments, I'm sure), retail stores have security (however neutered they may be). I don't see why shoplifters are thrown in jail and wage
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by dls2016 5y ago
Yes, my argument is a little muddled by grouping retail and supply chain theft together. I definitely think supply chain theft is somehow more serious. But grouping the two together is a result of the recent San Francisco story being mentio
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Yes, and mom-and-pops commit wage theft, too. Shoplifting should be a civil matter. > Those packages on the trains belonged to individuals btw. And?
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by dls2016 5y ago
Shoplifting is the act of stealing from a retailer, not an individual. Yes, I make a very big distinction between the two. I just don’t see why corporations in the US can get away with so much (shoplifting and wage theft are both estimated
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by dls2016 5y ago
Retail and supply chain theft will always be a cat and mouse game. This is not an issue for which society/government should pay the cost to fix it (which you seem to imply by saying the markets have no options).
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Uhm… so we ignore that rail yards in LA are super busy relative to those in “more respectable” towns?
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This already happened in the US, too, regarding strike-breaking forces. See, for example, the official history of the Pennsylvania State Police. But there are numerous solutions between the current situation and what you describe. Better lo
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by dls2016 5y ago
> If criminals can get away with constant car break ins, burglaries, and daylight mass raids of stores, why stop there? This is rich. The rich always get away with crimes: wage theft, labor violations, financial fraud, environmental dest
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by dls2016 5y ago
> But Union Pacific is partly to blame for not deploying more security, said Los Angeles Police Capt. German Hurtado, who works in the Hollenbeck Division. Half-way through the article we get the point. This is just another example of ho
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by dls2016 5y ago
A reminder that this isn’t the first time Google has been caught colluding with competitors. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...
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My last job was a dead end: small software group which had survived many mergers and lived inside a mining/valve manufacturer. The only interest upper-level management had in our group was cutting costs. This caused a lot of dysfunctio
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by dls2016 5y ago
Penalize? So it’s ok for a group of people to enter a contract to form a corporation (“penalizing” non-signatories by preventing them from benefiting from the profits of the corporation)… but it’s not ok for a group of people to enter a con
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Partnership contracts bind non-signers from receiving benefits of a partnership. And with good reason: you wouldn't want any ole schmoe laying claim to the fruits of your labor. Contracts deprive non-signers of things all the time. Tha
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by dls2016 5y ago
Entering into a contract with multiple people to form a corporation = fine Entering into a contract with multiple people to collectively bargain with a corporation = deprivation of human rights (according to some posts in this thread) At le
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by dls2016 5y ago
Doesn't corporate lobbying also lessen your wages?
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by dls2016 5y ago
If the parent comment to mine wanted to make a point, perhaps look toward movie stars. Although then I personally think the point falls apart.
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by dls2016 5y ago
Well, for a while they colluded with other tech giants to prevent this. https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2015/01/16/37...
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I don't know, how much would he make if the NBA wasn't a monopoly?
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> In all cases, all relevant employees are "coerced" into the union contract. It's funny because usually the libertarian response to a lot of problems is "put it in a contract". But not that kind of contract!
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Which other human rights are violated by representation dues? I can name dozens of corporations who have used their profits not to increase worker compensation, but instead to lobby directly against their workers. And the workers have no vo
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by dls2016 5y ago
I second the grind. There's not really a shortcut... like lifting weights or practicing scales/rudiments. I returned to grad school at 27 for math and had trouble passing qualifying exams. I ended up using spaced-repetition to mem
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That lazy river is wild!
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I think I saw a documentary about this.

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