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WeWork Will No Longer Let Employees Expense Any Kind of Meat

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Re: WeWork Will No Longer Let Employees Expense Any Kind of Meat

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Ok, they're a private company, they can do what they want. If you don't like it, don't work there. But, really......

Like it or not, this is the side of history that will eventually win out. In 50-100 years from now, expect this kind of arrangement to be very common with American companies.

Re: WeWork Will No Longer Let Employees Expense Any Kind of Meat

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Ok, they're a private company, they can do what they want. If you don't like it, don't work there. But, really......

Like it or not, this is the side of history that will eventually win out. In 50-100 years from now, expect this kind of arrangement to be very common with American companies.

I believe sintetic meat will be the most common in 50-100 years, so I don't think so.

Re: WeWork Will No Longer Let Employees Expense Any Kind of Meat

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It’s nice that companies are releasing these types of policies publicly so peopl can choose whether to work there. It’s sometimes hard to get a good bead in company culture due to reporting bias of people there or who left. Stuff like this will help companies and workers find each other.

I worked for a company for a while before I learned their expense policy was really frustrating. $40 max expenses and their headquarters and work location was on Spear Street in San Francisco. They also wouldn’t allow any alcohol and required receipts for any expense. It wasn’t so onerous to make me quit, but it was annoying and kind of indicative of their philosophy on cost cutting.

Had I known about this it would have changed the weighting on some other offers I didn’t take.

Re: WeWork Will No Longer Let Employees Expense Any Kind of Meat

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post #5
post #2

Ok, they're a private company, they can do what they want. If you don't like it, don't work there. But, really......

Like it or not, this is the side of history that will eventually win out. In 50-100 years from now, expect this kind of arrangement to be very common with American companies.

And not because of environmental concerns. But moral concerns. Something that is flagrantly immoral would be opposed regardless of environmental questions.

That is important to note because it is not a simple question whether meat is net positive or net negative for the environment. It isn't even clear what it means if something is net positive for the environment.

This is a moral issue, not an eco issue.

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