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by moate 4y ago
It's literally the opposite: https://www.fastcompany.com/90770163/the-age-of-greedflation...
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by moate 4y ago
IDK that you can say Squid Games isn't part of a trend when Korean pop culture and arts are having a pretty big moment around the world (K-pop is massive, Parasite kicked ass at the Oscars) and EVERYONE wants a dystopia story because o
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by moate 4y ago
This is not reductive. This is slavery. When you call Hitler Hitler, you're not being dramatic, you're just pointing out facts. Sometimes there's nuance, sometimes there's "the state preserving slavery".
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by moate 4y ago
I'll mention that to the bodega owner in town who's been in business longer than I've lived here. I'm sure it will get a chuckle.
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by moate 4y ago
For labor, yes. For ownership/management, literally the opposite. OP was just pointing out why management is typically opposed to unions, since raising labor costs hurts the share of the profit to be given to ownership/management,
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by moate 4y ago
You're talking about a resolution to conflict, not the lack of conflict. Voting with your feet is a great option if you have it. Not everyone thinks they do. Either way, the fact is that employers want the cheapest labor cost they can
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by moate 4y ago
"Be careful what you measure because that's what gets managed" or some such.
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by moate 4y ago
Adversarial: involving or characterized by conflict or opposition. Nope, this is correct language. Your company wants to buy labor for the lowest possible cost to them. You want to be paid the highest possible wage. You are in conflict, dir
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by moate 4y ago
There is a binary: Pro-union, anti-union. That's it. It's that simple. I'm not saying people aren't allowed to oppose unions, either ideologically or legally. If a jobsite is trying to organize, employees discussing &quo
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by moate 4y ago
Don't you DARE let the Democrats, especially during Clinton era, off the hook. That was their turn away from unionism and towards the 3rd way the told everyone that they don't need union protection because in the new economy of th
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by moate 4y ago
You can't break laws in doing so. That's the news. "Apple is doing illegal things" is not the same as "It's not in Apple's interest to be unionized". We can and should expect the 4th estate to hold pe
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by moate 4y ago
>> I wonder how we got to this point. The glib answer is "Capitalism, neo-liberalism, and the lack political party that actually answers to/is beholden to the labor class". There's a lot of nuance in those 3 things
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by moate 4y ago
1- Yes, most of us on the pro-labor side consider any effort to dissuade people from joining a union "union busting" generally. They're trying to "bust" the union by stopping people from joining. This isn't mis
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by moate 4y ago
I would imagine the curve of "people buying new bags because they forgot" over time is real real high over the first 6 months, with sharp drop at some point and a thin tail in the future. The idea of people frequently forgetting b
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by moate 4y ago
Keep going: Why is that not partially offset by the transportation of all the single use bags ceasing? How many shipping containers full of plastic bags no longer needed to be moved in order to solve this? It's not like this hauling is
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by moate 4y ago
So prior to banning single use bags, people relied on single use bags. Who would have guessed!? I have a spoiler alert for the future for this author: The overwhelming majority of people will start choosing to walk around with a bag full of
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by moate 4y ago
Hello, it's me, the person you've never met in real life! I'm real, and I live in New Jersey, and I'm super in favor of this law (paper bag warts and all) You're right, in the short term a law banning plastic single
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by moate 4y ago
So, let's just run through everything here. 1- 1 million bartenders/servers/whatever at 3 bucks a pop sets our year 1 expected return at 3 million dollars. Based on the description other people have put for the program, the s
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by moate 4y ago
I don't disagree with you, hence the sentence immediately following that. That said, tons of middle managers seem to buy into the BS more than the people above or below them, and seem to proudly think of themselves as stupid nickname
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by moate 4y ago
Feels less condescending than Apple "Geniuses" or Best Buy "Nerds", and pretty in line with "Googlers", "Toasters" or "Hulugans". Is this a thing most people refer to other employees as most
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by moate 4y ago
Liquor, and the ability to sell it. So many places would go under if not for their ability to sell you marked up beer/cocktails. Now, depending on local it may be hard to get a liquor license (shout out New Jersey!!!) for a building an
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by moate 4y ago
I think I just hit a point in my life where I needed to grow up to get the things I wanted and restaurants aren't a mature place. I got married and wanted a life with my wife, so when I got a seasonal layoff from a beach restaurant I w
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by moate 4y ago
When I was working in restaurants professionally and was asked what I did for a living, I told people "I cut and burn myself professionally".
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by moate 4y ago
"I’m not telling you that culinary school is a bad thing. It surely is not. I’m saying that you, reading this, right now, would probably be ill-advised to attend—and are, in all likelihood, unsuited for The Life in any case. Particular
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by moate 4y ago
As someone who spent a LOT of time working in/running professional kitchens in the US (NJ specifically) I would just like to say: CITATION NEEDED
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by moate 4y ago
Hello there. I can't speak to everyone, but I can speak to my personal journey. In my late teens I was working in food service, both of my parents had run restaurants or been bartenders/servers. I had seen the issues that came fro
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by moate 4y ago
Re-reading the original comment, I misunderstood their verb tense. I took it as "why hadn't we just done this ourselves" and was pointing out the historic glad-handing. You are correct that in response to the issue, the IRS c
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by moate 4y ago
That person is a Capitalist, and I am not.
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by moate 4y ago
Why do you think this? You're not technically wrong, but I think a reasonable reading of my comment could see the implication that I was speaking of the individuals who are actively investing and derive their primary income from it. If
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by moate 4y ago
Google is free: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State-owned_enterprise Root around in there, plenty of examples of nations taking control of individual companies or entire industries. Feel free to make your own judgement

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