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I can't help but to think you don't understand even the very basic premises of forming a private company.
Private companies aren't personal fiefdoms when they employ members of the general public in countries that support collective bargaining.
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To me this sounds weird. I'm from Eastern Europe, no strong unions there by the way so it must be a West/North Europe kind of thing. I understand unions fighting for people who joined a union. But if I purposefully don't join a union cause I don't believe unions are good for the industry (I don't, but this is a hypothetical) why does the union have the power to create a "collective agreement" that affects me? Who gav…
Let's say the union mandates 2 breaks a day$ unpaid lunch and max 6 day-consecutive work weeks. But not you.
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Which won't matter because they can't get license plates at the moment
The grey market exists because people with means have ways to solve problems that are not meant to be solved. I don't know if owning a high end Tesla puts you into that crowd, but you're certainly in the right order of magnitude.
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I never expected to have to argue with a ChatGPT prompt, lol. Swedes do not care about your conclusions as we still won't claim Stockholm is in the southern Sweden.
E' du go eller? I am 100% Swedish. Men absolut inte en 08 / Tjockhultare, har i princip bara varit i Stockholm när jag gick högvakten. Again, reading your comments it looks like you're translating Swedish words directly to English ("Sydsverige" -> "Southern Sweden"). But they are not the same, right? And I didn't just ask ChatGPT for a number. I used ChatGPT Python data analysis to process official SCB datafiles with…
https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%B6dra_Sverige
https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydsverige
Ingen av dessa geografiska områden inkluderar Stockholm. Sluta använda ChatGPT som källa, det får dig bara att framstå som korkad.
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I never expected to have to argue with a ChatGPT prompt, lol. Swedes do not care about your conclusions as we still won't claim Stockholm is in the southern Sweden.
Ask a northern Swede if Stockholm is in the south.
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Markus Söder is currently busy with getting a ban on gendered words going in schools. Obviously that's much more important than anything else. Prost! :-)
German gendered language is horrible. Not the most pressing issue, though.
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E' du go eller? I am 100% Swedish. Men absolut inte en 08 / Tjockhultare, har i princip bara varit i Stockholm när jag gick högvakten. Again, reading your comments it looks like you're translating Swedish words directly to English ("Sydsverige" -> "Southern Sweden"). But they are not the same, right? And I didn't just ask ChatGPT for a number. I used ChatGPT Python data analysis to process official SCB datafiles with…
Dessa geografiska områden definieras inte av "80% nånting", utan är belagda begrepp som använts under längre tid, inkl inom statistik. https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%B6dra_Sverige https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydsverige Ingen av dessa geografiska områden inkluderar Stockholm. Sluta använda ChatGPT som källa, det får dig bara att framstå som korkad.
Jag har inte skrivit något på svenska eller ens riktat till en svensk. Jag skrev "Southern Sweden" till en tysk.
Det har inget att göra med vilka begrepp vi använder på svenska. Avsikten var att att ge honom en bild av vilken del av Sverige jag menade i mitt första inlägg. Vad får dig att tro att han tolkade "Southern Sweden" som det svenska "sydsverige" (dvs Skåne och Blekinge), och inte "Sverige upp till Stockholm ungefär" som jag menade?
Din engelska är långt ifrån perfekt. Jag antar att du inte har bott längre perioder i utlandet, och inte heller är extremt van att kommunicera på engelska med folk som inte känner till Sverige? Jag har bott utomlands i omgångar i uppemot två decennier nu, och tycker mig ha en bra bild av vilken bild personer i andra länder får när jag säger "Southern Sweden". Detta är alltså en helt annan sak än vad någon från Linköping uppfattar som det svenska "sydsverige".
Jag definierade sedan exakt vad jag använde ChatGPT till. Dvs att låta den analysera officiella datafiler från SCB för att räkna ut hur långt norrut man måste gå för att täcka 80% av befolkningen. Detta gjordes steg för steg, med kontroller av mig längs vägen att delresultaten verkade vettiga eller fick rättas till. Jag påstår inte att det garanterat är 100% korrekt, men det är långt ifrån snutet ur näsan som du antyder.
Du kanske tycker att "80%" är ointressant, men den biten kommer från mig, inte ChatGPT.
Om du tycker att det verkar helt osannolikt att 80%-gränsen går ungefär i höjd med Västerås, så skriv det isåfall?
Var menar du att 80%-gränsen går? Luleå? Halmstad?
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> Say 80% of developers at a company think that the new feature of addicting kids on some game mechanic is harmful? Who cares? The company will just get someone from the other 20% to develop it. Or contract it out. What is your proposal for stopping a company from developing something you think is harmful? You can't very well complain that other developers have to agree with your opinions[1], after all. [1] Whether s…
>Whether something is harmful or not is simply your opinion. If that something is a fact, then there's probably a law against it, so there's no need to prevent other developers from developing it. Cigarettes are harmful and are legal. It is not an easy as you think, I worked at a small company in a emote team, there was proposed that we all need to install spying software on our computers so we can be better monitore…
> I worked at a small company in a emote team, there was proposed that we all need to install spying software on our computers so we can be better monitored. Everyone in the team refused and the bad stuff did not happen, we were not replaced with a new team.
Isn't that different to what you asked for? The harmful stuff in this story was harmful to the workers. Unions protect workers.
You're asking that employees must form a union to protect consumers. Have you ever seen that happen? Unions are not primarily consumer-protection groups.
Once again, I reiterate that you are going to have trouble getting a union (or a bunch of them) all agreeing that their workers would strike if any worker is ever employed producing cigarettes (the example you gave).
The reason this is not going to happen, is because you aren't going to get enough developers to agree with your opinion on what is harmful and what is not.
> You might be right, maybe developers should instead work on proposing legislation for banning harmful stuff and keep unions focused on work conditions.
Give me just one single example that you think should be enshrined in law and currently isn't, and I'll show you how unworkable your proposal is.
Just one.
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> is workplace democracy such a bad thing? Yes, they're called committees. They're wildly inefficient for fundamental reasons [1]. We tolerate them in government, because when it comes to the state, we've learned that being consistently right is more important than being efficient. That's not the case in commerce. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_the_firm
The amount of openly communistic commenters on HN is both hilarious and concerning at the same time.
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Even though Spotify does have some metal in their catalogue, I don't see how a metalworkers union could strike against Spotify. Instead of some anti-US sentiment that you not-so-hidden point at, the real answer is different unions with different cultures and bargaining power.
I guess a /s was missing from your the first part of your comment. Still, the sentiment I sense is mostly anti-Musk/anti-billionaires. It’s fine to talk about differences in cultures but when you have Swedish companies founded by Swedes (and how are now also billionaires) doing the same thing as Tesla, the narrative kind of brakes down imho. How did Spotify get away not having a union for over 15 years?
I think you are missing the point here. You seem to be basing your expectations on one union by how another union behaves. I have no idea why they do what they do, but this is not some kind of US hate thing - that's a bit far-fetched in my opinion.
Ask yourself this: Where you live, is the culture and history of a union representing metalworkers the same as those that would be representing someone from Spotify? In most countries, unions in different areas act very differently. Programmers, metalworkers, miners, academia - their unions are more often than not very different.