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> As well as any nation who's best and brightest minds refuse to contribute Sickening pro robo war jingoism!

Going to the wreckage is a reasonable idea. There will be an ELT in there which is what a rescue crew will come looking for. Plus it's easier to spot from the air than a lone perso…

Eh yeah, you're right. I was really thinking about white collar vs blue collar unions.

Yes! I keep seeing these idealistic responses about negotiation. When you negotiate a higher salary, you are saying to your boss, look, I know I am creating more value for you than…

I think you'll have a hard time sourcing that claim.

The games industry is notorious for crunch hiring and firing, low wages and exhausting work regimes. When work conditions like that prevail, people unionize (good for them imo). If…

You think that's enough? I guess we'll find out.

> increasing reliability and resilience I'm far from well versed in this area but I was under the impression that renewables really suffer in this department. The lifespan of a win…

> and we do need to fix that I can't see any way of fixing it that doesn't entail interfering with the (supposedly) natural operations of profit seeking in the market. At some poin…

> No HR person would allow unpaid intern positions in 2021. It's very clearly illegal in the United States. Unless this claim is scoped to the tech industry, it's absolutely wrong.…

We = everyone who has to work to earn a living. And as I say, most especially people who can afford to take a pass on bullshit no-pay work and try to establish a culture where such…

We ought to establish norms that discredit this kind of nonsense. Those of us who could afford to take on this kind of unpaid work for exposure ought to object sternly and without …

> Just-in-time works really well when it works really well. But the ripple effect of a global pandemic upon every sector of the globe...causes a lot of companies to feel the immobi…

I honestly thought this was going to be about alternatives to less and more.

I think there's actually a case to be made that there is widespread soft corporate censorship enforcing a new orthodoxy on race discourse (and other things), I'm just waiting on so…

Maybe so but could you say why?

I feel similarly, but I think a big part of that is that my schooling was so bad. Ideally I'd have not had to work and actually been learning something (and that's the goal I have …

When an objectively flimsy discourse like that circulates widely you have to ask yourself what its actual function is. Its apparent function of describing the world accurately is n…

This is a discussion about whether gig economy workers ought to be classed as employees by the government. The reason that is a salient question is because a lot of these workers c…

You are setting up a scenario where we have to choose between: A) teens and retirees having access to low paying scut work jobs B) eradicating wage slavery for non-teen, non-retire…

Unions are good inasmuch they allow labor to bargain with capital by underwriting demands for better pay and conditions with the threat of work stoppage. If unions aren't doing tha…

Yes or no. Take your pick. It's not such a hard question that there's no answer. You can make a policy on this stuff. We solve harder problems all the time.

> even people spending their own money on their own housing often can't define their own parameters I can't believe I'm spelling this out. A person picking out their ideal home has…

> Being an independent contractor does not mean being independent of rules Surely it at least means being independent from some of the rules that you have to follow if you have a f…

> US Labor Secretary is a product of union politics The man heading state labor policy is a "product" of the labor movement. Is that supposed to be a scandal? > easier for the AFL/…