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by runako 9mo ago
> Nor do I understand the negative reactions to new restrictions on SNAP - candy and sugary drinks are no longer eligible My understanding is that it adds a complex layer of regulation where one did not previously exist. Large retailers
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by runako 9mo ago
Honestly? Your favorite LLM will be able to build you a syllabus better tailored to fit your current level of understanding. But in short, Capital is the people making decisions about how money is expressed through the economy. But to make
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by runako 9mo ago
You're missing a giant class of workers. Janitors, retail employees, warehouse employees, home health workers, physical therapists, etc. And jobs in retail, food prep, hospitality (certainly the folks who clean hotel rooms would be sur
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by runako 9mo ago
> Bring back the labor jobs that the unions represent Please research which are the largest unions in the US. I'm curious why union representation would work for labor jobs, but not for the millions of jobs* represented by unions no
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by runako 9mo ago
You're overlooking the main thrust of what I am saying from my top comment to the one you replied to, which is the relationship between Labor and Capital: > Productivity increases, workers generate more value, but Capital's sh
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by runako 9mo ago
This is exactly what I mean. Reading this, one would make certain incorrect assumptions about pay in service jobs based on imperfect knowledge of skills required. One might assume service jobs in general do not require any skills at all bey
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by runako 9mo ago
Please read my comment again. This time, consider that our laws and regulations are not laws of physics or axioms of mathematics and are therefore able to be changed. The comment will make more sense in that light.
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by runako 9mo ago
I'm not sure wilder: - $20/hr for hazardous work is "good money" - your suggestion that we become an export economy, here on a forum where many people are working on products that will be purchased by the world but not c
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by runako 9mo ago
We make decisions through purchasing, yes. There are also hundreds/thousands of elections annually through which we collectively set policy directions. Contrary to belief, politicians are responsive to voters over long periods of time.
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by runako 9mo ago
People still work, so this is a very bizarre comment to make.
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by runako 9mo ago
There's been a lot written on Labor vs Capital, so I will just suggest you research the topic because you are not on target here.
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by runako 9mo ago
This really doesn't work because there is not enough demand for people to upskill. Even during boom periods like 1999, there were still janitors. Janitors did not suddenly earn more money because white-collar hiring was exploding.
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by runako 9mo ago
Economic rules are all subject to externalities like the effects of taxes, regulations, etc. I mean there is no rule in the sense that some of the jobs that are poverty wage in the US are not poverty wage in other countries due to the impac
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by runako 9mo ago
IIRC the last company that manufactured men's dress shirts in the US closed not too long ago. They really were dedicated to making stuff here. The economics just simply did not support it. Which is another way of saying people would no
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by runako 9mo ago
> Unions are a potential solution to this issue This is part of the Labor vs Capital stuff I mentioned in my post. We're not likely to have strong unions again in the near future, so any jobs we bring are likely going to be dangerou
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by runako 9mo ago
I thought about addressing this in the original post, but I want to address part of your response: > one worker today produces vastly more than one worker in 1950. Elderly care doesn't Indeed, this is a core component of Capital vs
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by runako 10mo ago
There are so many underlying changes to the established relationship between Labor and Capital in the US that would be a necessary part of keeping jobs here that it would effectively make us a completely different country. For example -- su
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by runako 10mo ago
We have manufacturing capacity here! Some of this is simply down to US automakers choosing high-margin SUVs and trucks over cars (most US auto brands do not offer a single car). Basically only Tesla offers any car that is even similar to th
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by runako 10mo ago
> Canada will need: - Also a much larger population to create the labor pool necessary. I was speaking mostly about the Western bloc of countries (EU + USA & Canada) that have their heads in the sand. As a semi-unit, they already ha
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by runako 10mo ago
> Everyone's take on the 1980s Nope, I was there. You're generally agreeing with me? You're making an argument that American makers improved by exposure to Japanese makers, and yes I am suggesting they also need exposure t
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by runako 10mo ago
Fair for Canada. In the US, the entire auto production economy employs fewer people than Amazon does in the US.
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by runako 10mo ago
Don't Chinese makers need to conform to the same EU laws when selling cars in the EU? That's how it works in the US.
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by runako 10mo ago
Re #2 -- locking Chinese vehicles out of the market will also lead to the downfall of our industrial base over time. In general, Americans (including those who work in US manufacturing) do not understand that Chinese vehicles are very compe
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by runako 10mo ago
> dumping cheap supply wherever they can to secure market share, all enabled by heavy state subsidies Assuming for a moment this is more true for China than for other countries. Why would the average Canadian prefer to pay more for their
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by runako 10mo ago
> My computer feels fast again A while back (Win XP?), I got frustrated with Windows and installed Linux on my dev machine instead. But I still had to run Windows, so I installed VMWare on Linux on that machine and ran Windows in a VM. F
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by runako 10mo ago
The arguments are nonsense. A summary is Weiss wants to make a case for the administration, which already has the largest platform in the world. If the administration wants to make a case for itself, it has (and has had) ample time to do so
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by runako 10mo ago
What does ("when the foreign customer accepts the conditions applied domestically") mean for a service that is not offered in Italy, but is in Germany? Wouldn't that mean the Italian buyer has to accept the terms offered out
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by runako 10mo ago
I don't understand EU law, but wouldn't the country where the purchase happened be the one whose laws govern the transaction? In other words, if an Italian purchases a developer account from Germany, wouldn't any disputes be
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by runako 10mo ago
This looks like it's targeted at the relationship between Apple and Italian developers. I guess this means Apple could also comply by kicking Italian developers out of the iOS developer program?
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by runako 10mo ago
I am not a lawyer, but I am fairly confident that this is not how the laws currently work.

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