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by jahaja 10y ago
Your argument was not made towards "deteriorating journalistic quality". You made two wildly inaccurate statements and are simply not backing them up beyond presenting opinion - rather than scandal exposing - articles where most s
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This is blatant cherry-picking an I'm saying that as a person with left-wing ideals (DN is a right-wing newspaper). These are not "journalistic scandals" in any sense of the words you're making them out to be. Furthermor
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What scandals are you referring to?
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Malicious propaganda will plant seeds of negative associations no matter how blatantly false and/or out-of-proportion the original statement is. This will probably make it harder to use Sweden and the Scandinavian countries as a good e
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The practice of meditation makes me curious. Isn't the active ingredient of it just to take a break from outside stimulation for a while rather than to go through all the requirements of formal meditation - like not allowing your mind
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Make sure to separate the eagerness to fight and the support for less working hours. A subjugated workforce with a weak or non-existing labor movement will not fight much. However I'm sure that an overwhelming majority of workers would
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The common sentiment in articles like these is to try to appease to the owner; "look, the productivity!". We seem so subjugated by this state of affairs that worker happiness and health is not allowed to be an end in itself.
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I have a hard time accepting "please just let us work longer again" as the only viable option, or even close to the most popular one among a group of employees.
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I really wish that life-long learning would be assumed and encouraged on a societal level. Even if it's something that is currently not seen as "productive". I wonder what my older relatives and acquaintances would've wa
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Ah, yeah, that's the one I was referring to in another reply. Thanks. It's a good watch.
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I remember a documentary about some american fine wine forger where even though he's been arrested for the crime there were "fine wine people" that bought the wine that were fooling themselves that just this batch, which they
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I'm admittedly not a wine person but I really wonder how many people can actually recognise a $10 bottle of wine from a $30 bottle of wine - or similar.
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I'm curious about how much the need for social interaction through work differs between Europe and the US. In Scandinavia I feel that there's a pretty distinct border between work and friends/social life. Socialising with col
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Only in Swedish unfortunately: http://www.gp.se/nyheter/g%C3%B6teborg/sextimmarsprojektet-s... It seems like the experiment was concluded as planned in the end but they still tried to end it early.
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> You are right that this consequence could've been seen from miles away. Which is why this is very close to just propaganda against a 6h work day.
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The main reason this _very_ small scale experiment seems to be scrapped early is not because of costs, but politics. Right-wing politicians have seemingly wanted to end it as soon as possible for quite some time now - and obviously voted ag
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by jahaja 10y ago
No, there's no guarantee that what the OP meant by fair is what you want it to be. It can just as well be - it's even more likely - an ethical judgement of fair, e.g. a sustainable living wage. How can you possibly think I'm
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> I will point out that fair carries connotations in economics. Given that this is no economics site and that no parent gave reference to FMV you should probably be more explicit if that's your definition of fair. Excluding that, th
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> Huh? Maybe if you attach objective meaning to the word fair, but you said couldn't be done and would lead to a never ending philosophical discussion. I'm calling your definition of fair according to that first paragraph an an
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> Why can't you be free to join a union while also allowing the employer the freedom to fire you? This isn't binary. Answering this would inevitably leads us down a never ending philosophical discussion ("What is freedom?
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You seem to be trying to promote some kind of objective definition of fair and freedom. I don't think it's possible. I've already explained that freedom to join a union is as much a freedom for me as to not do it. It's j
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by jahaja 10y ago
Do not assume I agree with you because I did not respond to something. Especially when I wrote that I did not understand your answer fully. You're either too vague in your comments or I'm just living in such a culturally different
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This is a particularly malicious rationalisation historically.
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I'm not sure what you actually mean here, could you please clarify? Do you by fairness strictly mean the initial compensation being offered, but not what the workers believe is a fair compensation after-the-fact? Do you by freedom stri
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I'm curious about how people that see unions as something that causes a negative outcome for workers explains the massive gap in worker rights etc that clearly exists between the US and Europe.
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My underlying point is that work is not an end in itself. Reducing coerced work, be it political, social or economical coercion, means more time to follow whatever passions one has, even if some of those passions may be things that you cons
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You seem to be confusing free time with unproductive time and at the same time singing the gospel of hard work as a virtue. Reading this I'm surprised that you're not more worried about the thousands of great minds lost having to
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Do they really? Most countries have a quite elaborate schooling system in place to keep teenagers busy. Or do you think that one should be "productive" throughout the day otherwise it's a vice?
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Do you have anything to back this theory up? If our working time hasn't changed throughout the productivity gains during the 20th century there are other forces at play, namely political.
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Do you really believe that if a society would prioritize time over "work-is-life" and/or materialism it would lead to some kind of a stone age society, or are you just provokingly dogmatic?

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