Something can be done. It isn’t being done, but somehow, you think the more radical and impractical thing will be done?
Higher taxes on income and the wealthy to fund more education and health care will still leave a ton of people in low-wage jobs they can’t live on, and that’s a perpetual employment condition. If you want to talk about actual income transfers — higher taxes on income and the wealthy converted to transfer payments to lower-income people, I’m game. But the perpetual they just need more training and education game is a con.
The first question is whether the brutal work is worth it for the leisure time, i.e., the fancy restaurants with ridiculously fancy meals that require a ton of work and expensive real estate that you can enjoy in your small rest time are more important than almost everyone not being constantly stressed and everyone having meals. If they are, well, tip harder and enjoy the freedom. If not, there’s no lack of ways to transfer the cost that is put into workers health, but also their families and the state when they break; and if some business have to fail when dealing with the real costs, that can also be acceptable by having exit options for the workers (yes, including most bosses here, who would be able to re-try later).
It’s always about choices, we’re not in scarcity. Well, not for a few months, anyway.
Canceled for teaching a class on Econ 101!
The problem was he said the quiet part out loud.
Oh no! I was told there was nothing wrong with what he wrote!
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He woulda gotten away with it if it weren’t for those meddling kids!
That’s really the thing about this that grates. If the email hadn’t gotten out, he would’ve been fine and the franchise company would’ve just continued trucking with this idiot in charge of operations. The email chain literally has people replying to his memo with fawning praise.
This is like the old joke “You’ve been promoted to being a customer!”
It reads: “Happy graduation! Congratulations for having graduated from JD.com! Thank you for the companionship!”
A similar note reportedly from video-streaming site Bilibili is titled “Bilibili Graduation Day”, and writes: “We’ve prepared this to assist you in embarking on the next phase of your career.”
Graduating is vtuber / Japanese idol group lingo for firing
House hunting in their 20s? That must be nice. I didn’t buy my home until my early 30s.
decent chance I will make it to 60 before becoming a first-time buyer
They are building some new homes near me. About a month ago, the sign said “starting at $1.6 million” like that was a selling point.
I drove by this past week and they’re now starting at $2 million.
Insanity.
Missing from that headline? The word ‘Republican’. It’s in the article that the states doing this are all run by Republicans, but the headline prefers to leave it a mystery.
Dude you took too long putting context around those tweets before linking them, they’re deleted now.
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Copied it from the page here, but I have no idea how Discourse gets links of stuff.
