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Brian Chesky: Ability to hire from anywhere is more valuable than in-office work

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Post by bippihippi1 »

barry-cotter wrote: post #27
bippihippi1 wrote: post #23

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100 businesses are responsible for 70% of fossil fuel use. doing what you can is great, but it won't make a difference unless businesses change as well.

Those businesses are big because they’re the abstraction layer over the fact that what they produce is something a lot of people want. If they were destroyed overnight an awful lot of people would die and then their economic function would be reconstituted, probably more carbon intensive because it’s more robust to supply chain disruption.

a lot of people would be inconvenienced. if they are unable to farm and support themselves in case of an emergency it's due to environmental collapse. they should move somewhere less damaged. the alternative is to keep spreading the damage

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Post by m_rpn »

jasmer wrote: post #177
m_rpn wrote: post #167

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I think that actually the one that might have a wrong perception of what "being a professional" means might actually be you, no offense intended, i'll explain my point: First a couple questions: when you go to you grocer and order and pay 5 apples, do you get exactly 5 apples or do you get 6, or even 7? When you call a professional plumber to fix your sink do they charge you less at the end of the work, or do they ch…

Thanks for bringing up the plumber, because it's something we think of as 'transactional' but in reality it is not. Plumbing is artisinal, Carpentry, even more so. There are no two situations the same, and it'd be easy to a builder, carpenter, plumber, electrician to 'cheat' (aka the minimum) and do less than a great job - and - get away with it. In fact, I have family members who are Carpenters, and this is probably…

Sorry but i kind of lost your point here.

Just and end remark: "minimum" does not mean bad work, minimum means what it's written on the contract, companies just call normal good work "minimum", because like this if you are not in your office form 8 AM to 10 PM you are just doing "minimum work", which is passed as being "bad work", and now we can give you a bed performance review and don't give you a raise.

I still can do "minimum" work and be a good worker.

Re: Brian Chesky: Ability to hire from anywhere is more valuable than in-office work

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Post by higeorge13 »

namtab00 wrote: post #146
ChuckNorris89 wrote: post #98

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>But majority of companies use deel, remote.com and so many mediators to hire remotely. They do take a seizable cut though. After taxes on top you're not left with much than just working for a local company that doesn't have 200 applicants for one position and a crazy interview process. >B2b in other eu countries has way less taxes than being employee. Yeah, emphasis on "other countries", but I don't live in one of t…

Do you have a ballpark of how large is the cut off intermediaries such as those you cited? Asking as an Italian hoping to find a foreign fullremote employer.

Deel, remote.com and others don’t take money from your cut but the employer. So you don’t have to worry about anything.

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Post by bippihippi1 »

sokoloff wrote: post #51
bippihippi1 wrote: post #23

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100 businesses are responsible for 70% of fossil fuel use. doing what you can is great, but it won't make a difference unless businesses change as well.

I can no more complain about Exxon-Mobil creating emissions relating to the fuel that I buy than I can the local farmer killing a cow to make the beef that I buy.

did you ask either to do what they did? is the toxic sludge from a butcher seeping into your water and killing you?
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