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by lexs 7y ago
VW is doing it [0] [0] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-volkswagen-results-2019/v...
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by lexs 7y ago
What does this have to do with billionaire taxes?
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by lexs 7y ago
Sidenote: taxis in Germany are typically Mercedes, rarely BMW
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by lexs 7y ago
Godwin's law in action, this seems like an incredibly bad faith argument. Why not compare it to the NHS or other nationalised industries instead without going straight to shouting nazi...
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by lexs 7y ago
You mean deregulation? Banks have famously seen less regulations starting in the 1980s
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by lexs 7y ago
You don't see a difference between an independent carpenter or tow truck company and an uber driver?
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by lexs 7y ago
Yes
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by lexs 7y ago
Your boss, HR or whoever is responsible for deciding your salary definitely is a person though.
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by lexs 7y ago
But why resentment against him and not the company?
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by lexs 7y ago
I never said they should be compensated the same but saying they are not needed or should not be valued seems plain wrong to me.
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by lexs 7y ago
NBA players association, actors guild, writers guild etc are famous examples of "rewarding high performing employees"
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by lexs 7y ago
Kickstarters product is not software though, it's a platform, so support and community management probably does play a fairly substantial role.
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by lexs 7y ago
That exact same scenario happened to me but it wasn't at a union shop. Seems weird to blame this on unions in general. Dumb rules are dumb rules...
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by lexs 7y ago
That is a terribly naive perspective on the "free market for labor"
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by lexs 7y ago
Literally taken from your link. > Is there a list of demands and laws anywhere they want to impose? "02) What are the workplace improvements Kickstarter United is seeking?" > Not a word about the standards of performance or
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by lexs 7y ago
You can only unionise if you struggle?
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by lexs 7y ago
What exactly is "ruined" about Kickstarter when the employees unionize?
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by lexs 7y ago
What exactly is so bad about hiring people with good résumés? Tesla hired people from Jaguar, BMW etc. is that nefarious as well?
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by lexs 7y ago
This still leaves the question whether it's worth it to "setup shop" easily in the UK with a market of ~66m people or the "hard" setting up shop in the EU with ~500m people. You can't just set up in the UK and
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by lexs 7y ago
The HPI is a faculty of the public University of Potsdam, it is not a research unit of SAP or anything similar. They have projects with Oracle just as they do with SAP and a ton of other companies.
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by lexs 7y ago
It's kind of weird to describe CERN as "a company", doesn't quite capture the spirit of it...
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by lexs 7y ago
What exactly is socialist about this?
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by lexs 7y ago
I thought this "argument" around welfare queens had its day in the 90s...not the 2020s
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by lexs 7y ago
That's a rather polemic way of talking about this topic. No one but a strawman actually talks about "free shit" or "no-cost", it is about social distribution of burdens for these extreme cases. Paying a reasonable p
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by lexs 7y ago
I'm curious, why shouldn't they?
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by lexs 7y ago
But "companies" aren't a conscious being by itself, they are made up of or rather steered by high tier executives right?
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by lexs 7y ago
That is a weird definition of socialism...
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by lexs 7y ago
Any source on the claim that private news is more accurate than state-controlled ones? Seems like a bold claim if I'm looking at the yellow papers in most countries.
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by lexs 7y ago
he said good public transport
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by lexs 7y ago
Singapore has rougly 5.5m inhabitants and 780km^2 compared to the UK 67.5m and 242000km^2, slightly different situation, interstingly both your example are ultra high density, basically city states. Not everyone can be financal hubs for oth

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