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by quacked 2y ago
US firms are hampered by labor laws, hiring quotas, and government contracts that make it difficult or impossible to fire/cycle out underperforming managers and employees. This is doubly, maybe triply true if they're publicly trad
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There is a way out of this slump, but it is difficult. My recommendation is that you spend a period of self-investigation, and then begin to use your moral and aesthetic judgement frequently. This is difficult for many Americans because mos
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For what it's worth, the comment score that I can see is oscillating between 0 and 2, so if it's showing greyed out, that may just be an indication that it's a polarizing comment. I totally agree with your second paragraph.
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Okay, "serf" was the wrong word, since they are indeed not bound to parcels of land under a feudal government. What do you think about the content of my point?
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A close relation of mine worked in a very, very high-up position in the Department of Agriculture. He has been farming-adjacent for his entire career, and years before he joined DoA he explained to me how meatpacking and butchery has slowly
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This is the constant refrain of pro-illegal/poor/migrant immigration. My answer is: "in the first world, businesses should operate by offering competitive wages, and the lifestyle costs of first worlders should be balanced ag
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This is true, but "Americans aren't able to move to major metropolitan areas because it's too expensive" is an easier problem to solve than "every year there are 800k-1.4M new people to house, and they tend to also
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What do you mean that it doesn't "make any historical sense"?
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It depends on what "net positive for the US" means. There would be immediate product and service shortages and lost intellectual capital, but a huge explosion in available housing, spots at universities, open jobs desperate for la
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Yes; the increase of prices alongside domestic labor cost is part of the necessary "immune system of capitalism" that is suppressed by immigrant labor. If a first-world business cannot survive without offering very low wages, it
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Many have not yet squared up to the fact that society itself is an unprofitable boondoggle that requires massive moral radicalization and willingness to participate in odd, polarizing institutions and practices. We live inside the semi-deca
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A 4.5M unit shortage wouldn't be present if the past several administrations hadn't allowed huge amounts of immigration in the past decade. Reality isn't constrained to "you have to build as fast as possible since your p
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What an excellent speaker. Despite many moral issues with his character, I am a big admirer of Jobs in a professional capacity. I have found that audiences genuinely appreciate when you speak powerfully and simply; you can rephrase somethin
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The thing is, only the engineers think that tech job requirements are completely broken, because the money is still flowing through the industry. The only signal that leadership and HR would take that something might be wrong is if money st
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I mean, it depends on what problem you're trying to solve. If you want to dramatically skyrocket the prices of consumer goods, reduce every American's individual buying power, tank the stock market, crater everyone's retireme
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Please cite the raw numbers you used to make your claims, and their sources. I don't doubt that on a per capita basis Canadians emit more than Chinese do; furthermore, China is the source of many of the goods that western nations consu
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Canada has also experienced record rates of recent population growth, so even at historically normal building levels (which are artificially suppressed) there would be a lag time between demand and availability.
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It is unprofitable to provide "perfect service", because in order to provide perfect service you need people on hand that aren't doing anything that can spring into action during surge events. Someone's going to stand a
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> Will I let them go down the Path? A serious training regime in any enjoyable skill between 5 and 20 can be a very rewarding thing once you reach adulthood. If you're not an elite musician, you can still be in a very popular local
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I feel so frustrated by nearly any degree of censorship. "Should we censor fairy tales? Should we censor Roald Dahl? Should we censor the speeches of Confederate generals?" No! Why do the pro-censor groups think that an uninformed
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Yeah, that's what I think. In both cases the technical decisions were made by people who were not technical experts and were completely ignoring the input of the technical experts because of social pressures. Based on McDonald's r
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Strictly speaking, you're correct, so I don't disagree with your comment. However, assuming MvDonald's recollections are correct and his explanation of the story is accurate, Morton Thiokol was doing an excellent job. The O-R
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I'm late to the party, but I work as a NASA contractor and have just recently been reading "Truth, Lies, and O-Rings" by Mr. McDonald. Something that I find really frustrating is that it seems that there's an internation
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I have long thought that there ought to be an independently funded International Association for the Protection of Whistleblowers. However, it would quickly become a primary target of national intelligence agencies, so I don't know how
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I would make the case that it's fundamentally the same thing. In both cases, there were people who cared primarily about the technical truth, and those people were overruled by people who cared primarily about their own lifestyle (soci
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> Don't even get me started on the nuclear safety problems. I want to be pro-nuclear energy, but I just don't think I can trust the majority of human institutions to handle nuclear plants. What do you think about the idea of re
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To me the single most common evidence of failure to perform "Agile in spirit" is management holding specific teams responsible for missing a deadline after a feature or due date was changed. It shows that the management doesn&#x27
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It can't be considered a fact, because it's unverifiable. The "fact" is that certain parties (museums, Vatican, etc.) claim to possess genuine historical documents that describe events that occurred in the past that Chri
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This is a crucial point that many in the thread are missing. A "fact" as a unit of information is itself subject to the whims of people and cultural attitudes. Is it a "fact" that a whale is a mammal? No, it's a fac
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The lack of fellowship between citizens is both a result and a cause of the decline of "third places", and is part of a large decline in civic life among Americans. People don't know or like the other citizens in their towns

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