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by erlich 4y ago
They are good points. But unions also risk making it harder for these people to find jobs in the first place.
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by erlich 4y ago
The market sorts out wages and conditions. I will assume you are not talking about developers because they have so many choices at all different salary ranges that are higher than many other industries. Contractors in minimum wage roles wou
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by erlich 4y ago
”Your livelihood“ Buts it’s not. They can leave and find another job easily. I agree that management can often be shit and make bad decisions. But at the end of the day everyone is working to make the owners a lot of money, and if the owner
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by erlich 4y ago
And a committee of employees has a better strategy for profitability? I don’t see it. The employees have dramatically less incentive than the owners and management to earn the owners an adequate return on their investment.
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by erlich 4y ago
Smart companies will provide conditions that attract and retain talent. Companies can compete on culture. The market will discover the necessary incentives to bring on employees. This has already happened. Look at all the perks companies of
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by erlich 4y ago
Workers don’t have same incentives. They can push for conditions that would risk bankrupting company, and if the company does shutter, they can simply get new jobs with no loss. Meanwhile owners lose their money.
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by erlich 4y ago
Different incentives. If a company fails, employees would be disappointed but can go get another job pretty easy. For investors they lose a lot of money. Employees have less to gain+lose. A collective of employees is not going to make bette
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by erlich 4y ago
The owners hold the management responsible. If targets are not met then they dig deeper, see staff turnover, find causes, and fix them. It’s capitalism at work. If the owners are not savvy enough then the company should fail or be sold and
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by erlich 4y ago
What happens if a minimum wage is set but there are people prepared to work for less? Or under lesser conditions? And a company cannot hire as many people because they have to pay them more? Isn’t it fairer to rely on the free market to set
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by erlich 4y ago
People can quit whenever they want which is the main point. Instead of banding together and threatening the management and owners with strike action it’s better that they quit because maybe there are other people who are happy to do the wor
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by erlich 4y ago
Money is paid for the employees backs and the business entity owns all the IP. Employees agree to this and can leave at any moment. They are welcome to start a co-op style company and give that a go. But would a VC want to invest in such a
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by erlich 4y ago
Google tried putting devs in charge and it didn’t work. It’s obvious too. Devs have such different incentives to owners. They want a nice place to work and play with fun tech and pad their CVs. They can leave at any moment too with zero con
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by erlich 4y ago
VCs are looking for a big exit. They have targets for the investment to have been worthwhile. The founders agreed to this. They are not interested in a great company just breaking even and chugging along which is what the employees want. I
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by erlich 4y ago
Most startups fail. Why burden them more? There are plenty of stable jobs out there at big boring companies. You can’t have your cake and eat it.
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by erlich 4y ago
Why do people always think it’s a good idea to unionize when a company is fighting for survival?
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by erlich 4y ago
This is such a crazy and enraging read. If you don’t like your job, go join another company. It’s not as if devs don’t have plenty of high paying choices out there. Especially for a startup that had struggled to find market fit, the last th
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by erlich 5y ago
The problem is that if you watch a news clip for informational purposes, say you want to know information about lockdown restrictions easing, you will get sucked into the most addictive news content. It takes a lot of self-restraint not to
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by erlich 5y ago
> How can the public form an opinion if the information they get about it is skewed by the affected companies? When Trump was in power, you had the right wanting to regulate Reddit/Twitter, and the left wanting to regulate Facebook.
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by erlich 5y ago
I just found out a trick where you can get rid of YouTube Shorts by marking all of them as not interesting.
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by erlich 5y ago
I was just thinking about this today. How great would it be if we could write native code in TS syntax. Everyone knows it and it's easy to learn. It would mean that TS would be the only language you ever need to learn. TS is going to b
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by erlich 5y ago
Which is why maximizing profits is a good thing. It’s unbiased. These whistleblowers are actually arguing for moderating to their political world view. Extremism is on both sides.
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by erlich 5y ago
YouTube is exactly the same. You have to install a browser extension to block politics from your suggested videos. Twitter is great because they have “blocked words”. I maxed out my 200 words though and have to constantly swap them. It’s un
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Arizona officials hold press conference on elections audit results(youtube.com)
5 points by erlich 5y ago|2 comments
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by erlich 5y ago
> Google loses interest in all sorts of projects, sometimes even when they're dominating their target market As big of an organization Google is in terms of people, I think this comes down to the CEO/Founders. You need someone
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by erlich 5y ago
> It had to support tons of users on day 1 It's funny how this is a requirements for all new Google products, but if you look at most new innovative products they started out with a handful of users over months/years. There is
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by erlich 5y ago
I can't believe Facebook hasn't canned Flowtype yet and moved to TypeScript. They will have to do it eventually.
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Unbounded Possibility Is Bad for Productivity(brianschrader.com)
1 points by erlich 5y ago|0 comments
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by erlich 5y ago
Good point. Imagine the millions of collective hours that would have been saved by everyone hacking their own text editors together.
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by erlich 5y ago
Solution: 64GB RAM. Never look back.
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by erlich 6y ago
This is one of the few times someone has lied directly to my face, and I will always remember it. The issue was plastered all over the internet with people even writing apps to solve the issue by disabling key-repeat etc. I go into the stor

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