hedvig

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by hedvig 8y ago
Exactly - having enough capital to waste in this way IS a morality issue.
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by hedvig 8y ago
So we need to get rid of this "independent contractor" loophole.
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by hedvig 8y ago
Sure you can. We're still ethical reasoning humans at the end of the day.
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by hedvig 8y ago
How long would've it taken to download everything? And what size disk would you need to mirror it?
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by hedvig 8y ago
This should not fall to the patrons. This is the problem of the business model. Remove tipping as an option, price the meals, and pay the employees a wage.
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by hedvig 8y ago
It shouldn't fall to me to pay a business's employees directly. The business should pay its own employees.
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by hedvig 8y ago
FCC has been coopted by industry, so I don't think that excuse flies anymore.
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by hedvig 8y ago
"nobody wants to raise rates to generate cash for upgrades." So maybe we change that mindset, rayiner.
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by hedvig 8y ago
No its not. That's a huge distinction - these services are held in the public's interest. Not for the profit motive of small group of shareholders. And things like demand having any control or the idea that you can really switch t
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by hedvig 8y ago
The greatest recession since the 1930s, caused by the similar wild west speculative innovation, and the victims on the lower end get depicted as strategic wolves somehow.
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by hedvig 8y ago
There's no error in hand offs. Attending doctors are detached and spend just a little time with a patient during their stay. Nurses and PAs do most of the work.
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by hedvig 8y ago
This would be easy to do a controlled experiment to compare.
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by hedvig 8y ago
Oh god forbid an potential employee feels he has some power in this transaction.
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by hedvig 8y ago
This goes hand in hand with the fact that its just ornaments around a landscape built for cars. We need to rework the land and our communities based on just humans walking about. Rip up the roads.
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by hedvig 8y ago
We need to disempower shareholders.
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by hedvig 8y ago
Why do they enable their ridiculous orthodox subset?
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by hedvig 8y ago
Your logic boils down to: because its not as bad as CO2 its not bad?
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by hedvig 8y ago
Those that aren't born into wealth - controlled by rents or controlled by debts. Those with capital - can control others by rents or control others by credit. What great options.
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by hedvig 8y ago
An insurance company is incentivized to NOT provide service, so no, it doesn't make sense to be profit-driven.
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by hedvig 8y ago
I don't know that its specific to Amazon but more generally comes from a core ideology of abiding by concepts of free market rules to the exclusion of concepts of humanity.
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by hedvig 8y ago
Does it make sense that they get the same number of senate seats as California?
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by hedvig 8y ago
I like how easily you separate groups of men in "government" from groups of men in "corporations"
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by hedvig 8y ago
Why aren't there developers that are willing to make 17% margins instead of 20% margins? You know what I'm saying. Related Group has always been happy to and does to this day build luxury units that get scooped up by elite Venezue
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by hedvig 8y ago
Supply side economics dominates. There is no such thing as authentic demand.
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by hedvig 8y ago
What NFL rule changes handicapped defenses, just curious?
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by hedvig 8y ago
I mean, if she shot up youtube because she got worked up by another alt-right 4chan conspiracy theory, then you'd have a point. But she wasn't, she was upset youtube wasn't paying her enough.
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by hedvig 8y ago
I think we all agree phone companies should reconsider allowing telemarketers to buy lines from them.
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by hedvig 8y ago
Submission. Dystopia.
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by hedvig 8y ago
> charity being run for the benefit of the employees. Whose benefit then?
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by hedvig 8y ago
Well, probably a majority of us agree that this can be controlled from the top and not have to cross our fingers and rely on low-informed consumers to change things.

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