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Re: ‘Two years of lost immigration’ is responsible for half of missing workforce

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Post by mensetmanusman » Sat, Dec 17, 2022, 1:02 PM UTC

bryanlarsen wrote: post #112

mensetmanusman wrote: post #6

Is it a welcome slowdown to improve worker bargaining power and wages? It is hurting corporate profits though…

Only superficially does it increase wages. Studies show that immigration counter-intuitively improves the wages of the lower class, mainly through 2 effects: 1. Immigrants spend money. "A rising tide floats all boats". 2. Immigrants take the entry level positions. So in a country without immigrants a high school dropout might become a janitor. But with immigrants the immigrant becomes the janitor and the high school…

This sounds like the argument given by Washington to the failed rust belt.

“Don’t worry that your wages are lower, the white collar workers in NYC/SF are making even more, so our average wages have actually increased!”

Re: ‘Two years of lost immigration’ is responsible for half of missing workforce

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Post by midoridensha » Mon, Dec 19, 2022, 4:12 AM UTC

odysseus wrote: post #119

midoridensha wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>But not all of these were "unwanted". Many women are pressured into abortion by abusive, manipulative, cowardly, and responsibility-shirking men. So if they didn't abort, how exactly were these children going to be raised? By homeless single mothers now that the cowardly, responsibility-shirking men have left them? You seem to think that preventing abortion will magically turn accidental parents into good parents. >…

I agree it's difficult to care for an impoverished child. My mom was a single mother that was close to becoming homeless, and we both survived. There are many free resources for single mothers. (for example, WIC, a program that provides nutritious free food for Women, Infants, and Children) But imagine a two-year old child in front of you. His mother is poor and feels she cannot care for him. He lives in the slums of…

So basically you want to condemn countless women to being forced to living in poverty and raising children in poverty, while letting men off scot-free. Bodily autonomy means absolutely nothing to you, because to you, women's only real role in life is as an incubator. Nice values you have there.

Re: ‘Two years of lost immigration’ is responsible for half of missing workforce

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Post by onethought » Wed, Dec 28, 2022, 5:42 AM UTC

gloryjulio wrote: post #92

onethought wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m calling bs on this. Many people in faang companies I know are pretty average work effort required is also pretty average, could you provide more concrete examples of where this isn’t true?

Lets start from faang, Amazon/meta/Netflix have high review bar, u r behold to biquaterlly review and sometimes quarterly review. If u havent heard of ura, go look it up. Google is somewhat more relaxed as their culture encouraging improving the employees instead of performance based firing outright but this might change, look it up regardless. apple's wlb is suprisingly bad as their very top down, of coz the pay is…

You described politics not performance. 40-50 hours is pretty standard across most industries. It’s rare to find non-unionised places that truly do 40 hours. I’d say in the software industry 50 - 60 is gut-feel where I see a lot of people working (just my own personal network).

I think companies that went remote probably automatically shifted it up towards 50 as default, just because the home/work separation became more leaky.

(No data to back any of this up, but I’m still unconvinced that the FAANGs are anything special other than being big mega-corps)