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by ravitation 5y ago
>I see how poorly public sector works with public sector unions (especially police, but also city government generally) and I wonder if private unions won’t be just as bad for organizations. I'm not a police officer, so can you prov
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by ravitation 5y ago
I find it very interesting the number of people in these comments making the simple claim that companies are often (at least often enough to be relevant) primarily motivated by things other than profit. That's not even what neoliberals
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by ravitation 5y ago
The first link is discussing whether directors have a legal duty to maximize profit, which, as the article describes, they do not (their duties are open to much broader interpretation, which the article also describes). But, of course, ther
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by ravitation 5y ago
Some very interesting trends here. Overall, Germany seems relatively equitable looking at the 6 year average. Though the relatively large jump between 2018 and 2019 seems odd, I assume there's some additional factor(s) I'm unaware
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by ravitation 5y ago
Another longer, but also entertaining, source for the story. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOttvpjJvAo
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by ravitation 5y ago
Also, for the record, I really enjoy/get a lot of value from your writing (if I didn't I probably wouldn't have criticized this tiny part of it).
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by ravitation 5y ago
That seems mostly irrelevant, aside from maybe providing credit. The way in which you "co-opt" it in this piece is not as some questionable hypothesis, whose veracity is unimportant - which seems to be your intent based on this co
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by ravitation 5y ago
Well, the main issue here is social mobility - most importantly escaping poverty and becoming middle class (and also not falling back into poverty), not just becoming wealthy. As has been stated elsewhere in these comments, there is enormou
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by ravitation 5y ago
Well there are over 1000 streamers making 6 figures over two years, there's just under 1000 streamers averaging over 6 figures a year (from only Twitch, i.e. excluding things like sponsorships and donations).
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by ravitation 5y ago
While I think Scandinavia might be ideal, one need not limit oneself to only those countries. Essentially all other developed nations are noticeably better at providing the things you've listed to the majority of their citizens than th
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by ravitation 5y ago
You're getting a bunch of replies about different interpretations of the "American Dream" - interpretations that are not at all consistent with either the mainstream concept or the historical one. Typically the "American
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by ravitation 5y ago
> No amount of increase of general scientific literacy will allow public in general to read/understand highly specialized fields. I understand this. There are first year graduate students in my field that have a far deeper understan
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by ravitation 5y ago
I see this all the time... I work in medical research (basic science, not clinical), and I see people "cite" papers, based solely on their titles, without understanding, or likely even reading, the nuanced findings of the actual p
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by ravitation 5y ago
I think there is some nuance even for those with institutional access (e.g. field, institution, etc). I am also a researcher (though I hesitate to call myself that), and I read (or skim) through quite a few papers every week, and I very rar
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by ravitation 5y ago
This is my last reply. I'm done with this conversation, we've gone way too far from the initial discussion, and we're too far off on what "convincing" evidence is, or what is self-evident, for a productive text-base
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by ravitation 5y ago
> We have eliminated some, but others we've simply relegated them to the black market so that those engaging them either do it entirely without unemployment insurance and other labor protections, or they do it as an independent busi
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by ravitation 5y ago
I apologize, I guess I mistook your misunderstanding as bad faith. I feel like I must point this out, but no one is arguing that "jobs that have negative economic value" would somehow exist. > Do I have evidence that employers
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by ravitation 5y ago
1) I feel like you know that is an oversimplification, and therefore you are not arguing in good faith... Something I would really like to not do here. 2) Even if we assume that a $15 minimum wage would eliminate a notable number of jobs, e
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by ravitation 5y ago
1) Yes, they did. The competitiveness of minimum wage has been in decline for the better part of the last 70 years. 2) Another piece of it, speaking to your example, is that women in the workplace were much more often "second-earners&q
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by ravitation 5y ago
HN is not a place for this kind of talking past each other... There is a reason they are in the same paragraph. EDIT: No one said it had no impact of employment (just as no one said there were no "student workers"). There is nuanc
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by ravitation 5y ago
I am, almost word for word, citing the Cato Institute. > First of all, one consequence of federal minimum wage hikes can be job or hours loss for low‐ wage workers, as we’ve seen, which can create poverty. Second, a lot of people who ear
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by ravitation 5y ago
It's treated as temporary as part of a justification for lower wages. This idea has been explicitly stated by those who oppose a $15 federal minimum wage, arguing that people making current minimum wage, or close to minimum wage, are n
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by ravitation 5y ago
I meant that it's odd from the perspective of how unlikely this conversation, about ivermectin (or any of the things you listed), would've been even just two years ago. EDIT: But, also somewhat odd how apparently disproportionatel
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by ravitation 5y ago
While this might be true... Surely you're aware that, given certain national conversations, ivermectin specifically is known by far more than just those that grew up around livestock now?
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by ravitation 5y ago
A few things. First, it's very strange that an antiparasitic like ivermectin has become known among mainstream laypersons. Second, those articles are from the 80s, one is nearly 40 years old. Third, various antiparasitic medications on
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by ravitation 5y ago
Your example, while potentially leading to a lower salary, is not actually an argument against public salary information, unless you assume the goal is universally higher salaries... Which, in your example, you explicitly state is not the g
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by ravitation 5y ago
I'm not saying there would be a 5x, or even 2x, salary. Only that if one cannot even negotiate for oneself, on the basis of some self-perceived productivity disparity, a higher salary (of literally any meaningful magnitude), then it se
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by ravitation 5y ago
I generally agree with what you're saying, but it's often more simple than that. The greatest leverage in a salary negotiation comes from the freedom to actually quit, a freedom, especially in the United States, that many do not h
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by ravitation 5y ago
If one can't make a compelling case to be in a higher "band," and therefore get paid more, then I'm failing to see how they could possibly make the case that they are actually 2x productive.
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by ravitation 5y ago
I'm interested to know how having access to information, which the opposing party in said negotiation has access to, would hurt you? It seems unlikely that it hurts you directly in your own negotiation, and more likely is a benefit. It

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