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Do you have a source for that?

Just dump all the sorted garbage in sorted landfills. Recycling may become economical again at some point. In any event, future technology will deal with it better.

Put the technologies you used next to the projects you worked on. Just listing "Python" or "SQL" without context isn't meaningful. Similarly, it's not clear what you actually did i…

If the US had mandatory six to eight weeks paid leave, that would come out of the employee's paycheck . I don't see what's good or civilized about being forced to take a vacation. …

> Occassion and modus operandi are two entirely different precepts but you know this, yeah, and your trying ever-so hard to be pedantic. It is you who is being pedantic. My point i…

Believe it or not, an American parent can take a vacation day as well. The difference is, you're not forced to have vacation days and suffer lower pay for it. In any event, why hav…

> Just because I'm "out of touch" with ordinary, less privileged workers doesn't equate to my experience and observations in the sector as being invalidated, yeah? It means your ex…

The cost isn't paid elsewhere. It's essentially going straight out of their own paycheck. Not immediately and in equal measure, but over time and on the average. It's effectively v…

> (specifically speaking of the technology sector, as that's what I have first-hand experience with) In other words, you're out of touch with ordinary, less privileged workers. > I…

Who is paying for those five extra days? Is it the health insurance? Your cost of health care will go up or service will get worse. Is it taxes? Your taxes will go up or money will…

Okay, I'll admit that Zombie Adam Smith, as summoned by dredmorbius on HN, disagrees with me on what "fair market prices" are. I don't care.

Your own source: "Researchers from the Harvard Kennedy School who followed 122 men and women who had been released from the state prison in Massachusetts found that six months to a…

> Does this bet mean anything if the only employment you can get is 10 hours a week at minimum wage? Yes, because it's about relative rates. Unless you believe the EU is more "hone…

"And psychology aside, remember that the welfare state forces active workers to support the idle. So when regulation forces wages up, even the lucky workers who keep their jobs ult…

> I've come to recognize you're conflating multiple related 'responsibility' concepts, swapping into the different modes when it's convenient. It's very similar to how you treated …

It's "fair (market) price", not "fair market". > And the market, and economy, should serve the people. Not the people the market. This is a meaningless slogan. The market is the pe…

> But all too often the resources to pay a living wage exist but the market has been manipulated such that the labourer won't be able to claim that. These are orthogonal. A fair ma…

> And if the risk is being taken by a company, it has to pay for it - because it intends to reap the rewards? Not a woman or a negligent employee. First of all, this is criminal li…

> I bet they will go after the driver now and try to place blame on her despite her having an impossible job What's impossible about watching the street and hitting the breaks if n…

> However, this is a societal issue and there needs to be some sort of referendum on this. Why? Where's the referendum on allowing people to drive vehicles? People cause 99% of acc…

Look, this just doesn't disagree with what a "fair price" is. If "a man must live by his work" but the market doesn't afford it to him, then indeed "the race of such workmen could …

> radical unfettered libertarianism doesn't work I agree. > No it isn't, because absent laws people tend to do things like break your knees with a lead pipe if you're a union organ…

No difference. A fair price doesn't imply "good" or "enough to live off". Ultimately, only so many people can live off a finite amount of land. The amount of labor regulates itself…