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by jahaja 6y ago
The reason that these kind of jobs exists in the first place is not some inherent sudden demand for them by modern society. It's because this form was required to create the plausible deniability that the drivers were not employees and
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Yeah, I know. Just added the gambling bit to emphasize how cynical it is.
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by jahaja 6y ago
Thanks for very informative reply. 1. I hope that this stays this way, a needy public may be very susceptible to credit marketing. 2. I find it a bit odd that this doesn't seem to apply here in Sweden. Predatory loans are a plague on s
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by jahaja 6y ago
Why do people even need to register to vote? In Sweden every eligible voter receive their "voting card" by mail a couple of weeks before an election.
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by jahaja 6y ago
The usual stopgap is a vast expansion of consumer credit. But I guess that phase has already passed in Germany as well.
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by jahaja 6y ago
Trump said it out loud didn't he? That the republican party would cease to exist, or similar, if voting-by-mail were widely allowed.
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by jahaja 6y ago
Are your general belief that people supporting Socialism today looks to the USSR as a role model?
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by jahaja 6y ago
> No, people are quoting MLK to point out the destructive and counter-productive nature of rioting and looting. The same people would never ever quote him regarding economic policy, but cherry-picks the non-violent "order" pers
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by jahaja 6y ago
> MLK does not rule out violent resistance on moral grounds, but practical ones. This is my point. People are quoting MLK in order to suppress or silence protests, even though there's a vast difference between morally condemning rio
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by jahaja 6y ago
It's different to dislike it from a tactical perspective and to morally condemn it. "They asked if our own nation wasn’t using massive doses of violence to solve its problems, to bring about the changes it wanted. Their questions
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by jahaja 6y ago
The superficial bashing by foreign journalists of the Swedish strategy will become a case-study in confirmation bias. It's remarkable how eager a large variety of people are to justify their own policies by sloppy and superficial concl
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by jahaja 6y ago
Who can do that? You're assuming that people can downsize. For most rent, childcare, healthcare etc is just another recurring bill, not unlike taxes.
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by jahaja 6y ago
I'm sorry but that's some free market bubble nonsense, most people can't "just move" and just "pick another uni". It's not that you magically can find some other landlord that's doesn't offe
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by jahaja 6y ago
I don't really understand why higher income taxes is such a big deal in the US. Instead of income taxes you seem to be fine with inflated rents to landlords, massive mortgages, unaffordable child care and education and so on. So regula
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by jahaja 6y ago
If high labour costs would be so detrimental to society then we Scandinavians would still be boarding those transatlantic steamers. But we aren't.
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by jahaja 6y ago
Fair enough. I assumed this was regarding a more normal state after covid.
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by jahaja 6y ago
But working from home doesn't require people to pull their kids out of daycare?
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by jahaja 6y ago
Well, if the businesses and corporations doesn't want to pay the taxes to fund it, they obviously have to fund it instead.
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by jahaja 6y ago
In my country, Sweden, we have a very generous child welfare and parental leave. I have no children though. By your logic I should be envious and bitter? But I'm proud. It's called solidarity and having a healthy society benefits
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by jahaja 6y ago
Whatever enables a dignified existence. It doesn't require much imagination to figure out what's included in that.
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by jahaja 6y ago
I agree of course that there will always be situations where generics/expressiveness will be convenient . But my argument is about proportionality. I'd like to optimize for the 98% of the time spent, not the last 2%. It's li
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by jahaja 6y ago
> I'm not working with an ecosystem where my human time is less important than the language philosophy. I want to express a repetitive pattern in the language, and then never think about dumb bureaucratics again. Writing code is no
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by jahaja 6y ago
> Worth noting also that Sweden has the 6th highest case fatality rate in Europe (other Nordic countries are near the bottom of that list). It's very hard to make any proper comparisons of numbers before this has run its course. Wha
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by jahaja 6y ago
Yes, and facts is that freezing funding while costs rise is effectively a reduction in funding.
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by jahaja 6y ago
Are you suggesting that one should only look at the absolute numbers? Staying at the previous year's funding is usually - in practice - a reduction for most welfare services.
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by jahaja 6y ago
Well, this was just unfortunate timing. I hope it sorts itself out in six months for you.
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by jahaja 7y ago
But due to the same reason it was absolutely horrible back then for the workers? Surely that's nothing to look back in awe to?
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by jahaja 7y ago
When was it more capitalist than today and why?
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by jahaja 7y ago
I guess it's hard to keep methodologies from being co-opted by management for their own ends, since they do after all have the "power".
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by jahaja 7y ago
While it's true that there will always be special interest groups, it's not true that the current situation is even close to "more or less the best it can get". There's too much power in far too few hands due to cap

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