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ntsplnkv2
9y ago
No, ideally anyone with similar roles should be able to work from home. You also say to the complaining employee that you monitor all of your employees and ensure that they are being productive (any good manager should be doing this.) and t
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9y ago
Actually new technology IS forced on others-see the countless peoples killed by weapons of war. They didn't choose to get bombed out by a GPS guided missile, did they? What about the people killed after the atomic bomb killings? Techno
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9y ago
No surprise, some people prefer other methods of work than others. But it isn't black and white. Helping others is fun but I've been on both sides. There are plenty of people who always need help and never put effort in, and are e
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> In Luddites' case the tech was clearly making our society a better place, Is what OP said-that is subjective. How is our world, better? Is it truly better? Sure-I have benefited from use of computers, but many people have been kil
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9y ago
Many times revolutions have been murderous for that very reason. I think many Americans agree with the bloodshed of the American revolution.
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9y ago
Why should anyone care about their society if they reap no benefit from it?
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9y ago
Neither would the millions of deaths from new advances in military technology be possible without automation and technology. Neither would the perpetuation of fake information and news on a global scale be possible. For every bit of good th
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9y ago
Maybe for people living in Silicon Valley or the west, if this is even feasible.
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9y ago
That's a strong claim to make without an argument. How has automation and technology made society a better place?
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10y ago
> It took just a few moments to find out if $30K is actually fair and progressive. This is a false comparison. 30k is average DEBT they have-not the total cost of college education. Add many more tens of thousands-just so a company can t
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10y ago
http://money.cnn.com/2016/10/18/pf/college/average-student-l... Average debt for 2015 grads is 30k. That is not a low end car. > And "prove you can stick to a goal" being a massive incr
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10y ago
Everyone loves applying the term democracy but fails to look at the issues each nation faces. The US didn't just become what it was over night. It faced very difficult issues at its birth especially with federal power. Luckily the righ
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10y ago
The major key is ESPN was the ONLY source for sports, highlights, discussion, etc. SportsCenter was a staple of most young males in the 80s and 90s growing up. Now they compete with the internet. Highlights? Go to r/nba, r/soccer,
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10y ago
Spend tens of thousands of dollars, go into significant debt, just to prove you can "stick to a goal." I can't be the only one who sees a problem with this. It's either a lie or a poor reflection on our society.
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This is interesting, to someone not well informed in this, how do landfills sequester carbon?
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10y ago
Walmart has certainly not been a huge boon to the middle class, if they have been, we have not seen any evidence of it. The middle class is shrinking. So if this is true, that means the middle class is doing MUCH worse than realized. From
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10y ago
Good thing they're opening a dialogue, though. For Apple, that normally is "you're holding the phone wrong."