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Every barrier we can out in place will result in fewer bullies making it through the funnel. It’s like a marketing funnel in reverse.

==This ecosystem has made Silicon Valley what it is today.== I assume this is referring to the technological innovation and corporate profits of Silicon Valley. I would ask you to …

==then why have far older and desirable professions like law and medicine continued to be incredibly well paying?== These are actually two perfect examples to illustrate my point. …

No goalposts were moved. I questioned the premise of OP's comment on whether unions can exist in a world where employees choose to switch jobs every 2-3 years. You responded with a…

==Do people actually think that software engineering is going to become a job that isn't skilled, and isn't sought after?== I'm not sure why you would be so sure it wouldn't. Are t…

Unions could help in each of these case, so you haven't answered the question or provided any evidence.

==We can form a union when we need to form a union.== In my 35 years of life, it has become harder to start a union, so it isn't out of the question that it becomes harder and hard…

But not all tech workers are programmers. To compare to another union, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) represents machinists from Boeing and…

Is the average tenure truly due to "employee choice" or simply a result of the system we created?

==makes everyone spend money they don't actually have.== So much for all that personal responsibility we used to hear so much about. Far easier to blame the government for everythi…

You had to go back 12 years for your example. I think that speaks pretty loudly to the differences between countries.

The vagueness is how the American legal system has worked since inception. I don’t see it changing now. Society changes faster than representatives can legislate.

I think the point is that once the cat is out of the bag it’s hard to put it back. For example, at first more people were helped by opiates than harmed. As time passed, by the time…

I think we read the same book. I don’t really think of Middletown as a Rust Belt city. It’s a town of 50,000 people. I am talking about big cities like Detroit, Milwaukee, Chicago,…

Not what I said at all. I thought there was an opportunity to make a larger connection between what has happened in the Appalachian towns he focuses on and larger Rust Belt cities …

I think his biggest miss was failing to connect the region to the rest of the country. He could have easily compared Appalachia to Rust Belt cities facing urban decay but never mad…

You kind of hand-waved 70 years of economic history/decisions. How does “US jobs decline” match with an historically low unemployment rate?

I would love to dive a little deeper on these strategies. How can I reach out?

I am trying to bootstrap a niche B2B service myself and having much less success getting off the ground. I would love to hear more about how you identify, qualify and communicate w…

They have all the data to be able to make a relatively simple change like this. They don't want to, likely because it "drives engagement".

You could simply add the number of distinct users replying. Seems like a pretty simple fix.

==for the same reasons they fail to draw a line between their current insurer's negotiated rates and cost of care.== Insurance companies are not subject to FOIA requests like the g…

==I'm interested to know why you think the government is incentivized to negotiate the best pricing for citizens. I can think of two. First, so they can spend the money on other th…

I took the argument to mean that it is better to regulate bad things in a way that might be ham-fisted, but allow for future improvements than to do nothing about a known problem. …

In reality, we can never know the full impacts of new legislation until it's released into the wild. You said yourself that "legislate first, fix later" makes you incredulous becau…