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If Hacker News had gold I would give it to you.
I don't understand why I got 10 downvotes on this one. What is the matter with this comment? What am I missing here?
Reddit norms don't apply here. If you have a low effort comment, just keep it in your head.
If Hacker News had gold I would give it to you.
I don't understand why I got 10 downvotes on this one. What is the matter with this comment? What am I missing here?
Reddit norms don't apply here. If you have a low effort comment, just keep it in your head.
Also the original post your were replying to was a recycled tweet anyway.
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>I think it shows that you can be a successful capitalist without trying to suck every ounce of productivity and profit out of your lowest-paid employees. Another example of this is Wegmans - http://www.cbsnews.com/news/could-this-be-the-best-company-i... https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/05/13/why-w... http://www.adweek.com/brand-marketing/why-do-so-many-people-... http://m.csmonitor.com/Business/The-…
And Costco.
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>I think it shows that you can be a successful capitalist without trying to suck every ounce of productivity and profit out of your lowest-paid employees. Another example of this is Wegmans - http://www.cbsnews.com/news/could-this-be-the-best-company-i... https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/05/13/why-w... http://www.adweek.com/brand-marketing/why-do-so-many-people-... http://m.csmonitor.com/Business/The-…
Wegmans is also privately owned so there aren't "activist" shareholders that want hockey-stick growth.
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The day I sell a company for $13Bn I will declare myself successful. Not everything is going to be a a half a trillion dollar company.
Not if you bought it for $20bn. Wholefoods is publicly owned and the price that Amazon pays is below their price a few years back. It's not about size, $13bn is a lot of money. But Wholefoods needed a strategy or buyer, otherwise they would've faced serious problems in a few years.
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I mean to be fair, most of the jobs at WF stores ARE unskilled labor though.
Not true. I know several people that have good careers at WF and would be offended by the fact that you think they are unskilled. Seasonal workers in the FCs literally get only 4 hours of training and are then filling orders. That's the pure definition of unskilled, and a far cry from a pastry chef at WF.
Enjoying your ivory tower I hope?
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You're kidding, right? Programmers are decently paid but should strike for a 40-hour work week.
I work 40 hours a week. Sometimes I work 45, and I usually offset it by cutting it shorter the next week. I have no need (or desire) to "strike" just because some businesses/orgs/teams are garbage.
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I really don't undertand how companies like Blue Apron and Plated ever expected to be in business very long. Do they get many repeat customers? Theoretically a subscriber would actually learn to cook over time and then Blue Apron would lose that customer... I just don't understand the long term goal.
Churn through customers and VC capital until aquihire?
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It is important to note that the antagonism between union and management is especially bad in the U.S. Germany demonstrates one arrangement that generally works to align the interests of the two. Just calling this out to try to counter the tendency of U.S. folks to assume that there is only one, unchanging form of capitalism. In fact, ours is increasingly a weird outlier.
What is that arrangement? How are their interests aligned?