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by rbg246 5y ago
Equally the status quo is not tenable and clearly not the solution. There are many people coming up with solutions but clearly 'free market' adjustments have failed an increasing number of workers. But I will disagree with your ec
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by rbg246 5y ago
Certainly, it's a balancing act. But equally is it ok for people to work hard and long hours and only barely make Or not quite make ends meet? Sorry I should note that I am not saying you are advocating for the above(could be misread).
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by rbg246 5y ago
There are definitions and I believe another commenter in this thread has defined it very solidly about poverty. There will always be service sector jobs, this is the argument luddites were having in 1815 (I don't want to get into this
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by rbg246 5y ago
You don't think needing to survive forces or keeping your human dignity forces you to find a job? That's the way I see it.
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by rbg246 5y ago
But you have said yourself it's 'bagel' money, it doesn't seem to be coherent to be defending both teenager after school jobs and teenagers in poverty.
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by rbg246 5y ago
Any gap in labor law leads to exploitation by a business owner, anything that can lead to business advantage gets used. Besides I found really distasteful when I was in my 20s being told that I didn't need the additional money because
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by rbg246 5y ago
I don't think anyone is saying that these sorts of companies have lots of money. These business have a model that relies on poverty wages changing the minimum wage will disrupt these businesses greatly and I don't see a problem wi
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by rbg246 5y ago
But equally a poverty wage job doesn't get you on the ladder it makes you an indentured servant.
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by rbg246 5y ago
Not sure whether you have factored in lost days of revenue into your back of envelope TCO. When a cheaper less reliable car is in the garage being repaired it's not just about the cost of repair but also the opportunity cost of lost re
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by rbg246 6y ago
I'm not sure where you got that Australian bankruptcy fact but Australia has had universal healthcare since 1975 (and maybe before not sure of the scheme before)
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by rbg246 6y ago
I recently discovered Firefox on Android has one if you focus on the address bar there is an option to scan, you just need to give Firefox permission to access the your camera
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by rbg246 6y ago
Yes I heard the exact same.
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by rbg246 6y ago
Think it was this (I am sure someone here will know better): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhino_(JavaScript_engine) Albeit it was two years after the announcement.
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by rbg246 6y ago
Thank you I appreciate the comment back and with facts and figures and back to your original point it is totally not possible to bring the things that American progressives want without lifting taxes - there are not just enough of the &#x27
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by rbg246 6y ago
I think if you read the parent comment it was a binary question. Not disagreeing with your comment though.
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by rbg246 6y ago
This is just so human centric surely you can see how caring for all of Earth's biome is important. Personally, I care about Earth's biome in its current state, and do not want to cause unnecessary suffering to animals or plant eco
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by rbg246 6y ago
For your own ethics and morality you should try though.
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by rbg246 6y ago
Great set of actions. Cutting down on flying is another action you can take, I looked up emissions from taking flights and its a significant chunk of annual emissions.
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by rbg246 6y ago
Do you mean to say you don't care for any living thing but your family?
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by rbg246 6y ago
I've owned both Toyota and Audi and wouldn't touch another Audi for its finicky engine and suspension. That being said the Audi drove a hell of lot more smoothly and beautifully but just stuff needed to be tweaked and fixed all th
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by rbg246 6y ago
That's interesting about the progressive taxation. My quick look at income tax rates in the US is that there is a lot of progressiveness in the income ranges of the top 5% rather than through the income levels that the bell curve of Am
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by rbg246 6y ago
No what you are saying is not true or rather it's a deliberate obfuscation of the leading cause of the fires- climate change. Rainforests that have not burnt before, burned last year. The fires that exploded across Australia were unpre
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by rbg246 6y ago
Can confirm I do 8-9l per 100km in Melbourne with my Toyota Corolla. But when Im in traffic in the morning the number of 'consumer' (non work purpose) SUV / 4WDs is fairly significant and they would all be doing at least the
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by rbg246 6y ago
You need to go to Europe to see the little cars then. Australia has half price petrol to Europe and you see this in both car size and engine size. Also I have read (newspaper so who knows) that Australia allows far more fuel inefficient car
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by rbg246 6y ago
I do agree with your sentiment I think unfortunately the people who want to work from the office require everyone else to be there too - to make it the office. I don't begrudge their attitude but hopefully there is just a split in comp
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by rbg246 6y ago
Well this has been presented as an informative interview and it's not? You may have missed in my comment my disappointment at it being so shallow.
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by rbg246 6y ago
I think that pretty much sums up that interview - what drivel. "The they" "All the usual suspects" "arrogant vision" - many buzzwords not much critical thought. I've not read his books and was but that was
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by rbg246 6y ago
I know right, he is definitely on the right in the political spectrum. The left or even centre-left has never been in power in the US and probably never will.
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by rbg246 6y ago
You know what that could have been it, that would be one of those tricks. Thanks for the tip.
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by rbg246 6y ago
I also noticed it today on a website that video was autoplaying and was shocked by it as Firefox has stopped that for some time. I'll note where it happens again.

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