Z-library founders arrested in Argentina

I wrote FAANG cause I didn't remember all involved, which was my bad. It was Adobe, Apple Inc., Google, Intel, Intuit, Pixar, Lucasfilm and eBay that got caught in the anti trust suit.

Enough big players to seriously affect job opportunities and labour costs from rising.

> This $415mm settlement [1]?

That was the latest judge sentence, which I hadn't heard of, I can ammend my previous comment. The original sentences, affecting mostly the smaller players like Pixar where much smaller while the Apple and Google one kept being pushed back. 400 million is still quite low in exchange for a 5 year long wage freeze essentially as moving jobs is the best way to increase your salary.

The toal pay seems to be lower, 3,400 for Pixar, intuit and lucasfilm employees and only 5,770 for apple and google employees. Over a 5 year period thats a pretty low salary raise.

Considering a job change every 2 years can end up with almost 100% salary difference over a decade. That means in the 5 years, the salary raises saved the company up to 50% in salary costs.

With the headcount of both of those companies and their average salary. Even if the percentage of workers who did not move between companies, I would argue 400 million is still low.

I am also gonna ignore lawyer fees which are usually the only winners on such big lawsuits

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...

But you're looking in the wrong place.

It was called the "Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action" it was not an agreement to be ratified, but a course of action for the UN members to follow, which includes the US.

Of course in United States social justice is seen as a political stance, it's not surprising from the country that has signed and not ratified

- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women

- International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

- Convention on the Rights of the Child (they do not actually think of the children, apparently)

- Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

I get that the rights of people with disabilities can be a divisive argument, but they also refuted to sign for

- Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women

- Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

- Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

- Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

and if that wasn't bad enough, they have also not signed

- International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families

- International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance (CIA really loves making people disappear, they couldn't possibly disappoint them)

How is it possible that we call it "the greatest democracy in the World" while they are not even a real Democracy is the "greatest mystery in modern history"

So, yeah, social justice is political only in USA and probably in some South American dictatorship lead by former nazis and militarily installed by yours truly the USA

Not even Putin would say in public that social justice it's the patrimony of a specific Political side, because it would be a (politcal) suicide, even for a guy like Vladimir Putin who recently spoke about it citing Martin Luther King (of course it's all propaganda in his side, but still...), while in the USA, where MLK was born and was killed, his ideas are still considered "agenda" and not "Country's own values".

Again: not surprising, just sad.

> It was ratified by Russia and, somehow, Afghanistan.

to put it mildly, in that list, as you can see, USA is the country that ratified fewer treaties.

Even Iran ratified one treaty more than US.

Actually there is one that did worse: Bhutan, with zero of them.

they all love lobbying (= anti-democracy to me: the deeper pockets have more influence) there in washington