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What's the antidote? There can be new names for anything, but it's hard to get them to stick.
While I agree with you about the race issue, I do not think the idea of leftist ideology applies here as both sides are opportunistic such as your analogy.
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A 1% raise seems insulting imo.
It is
EDIT: this was... 2004/2005 era.
It’s not surprising that a shrinking labor force (relative to demand) causes ripple effects. As good positions open up it triggers a musical chairs cascade as everyone else trades up for better jobs. When the music stops it seems pretty obvious that the lowest-paid and/or worst jobs are the ones that will be empty.
[1] https://www.npr.org/2021/12/22/1063104262/immigrant-workers-...
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What's up with all the language games lately? "Defund the police". No no, we don't actually mean defund the police... "Anti work". No no, we don't actually mean we're anti work...
In both of these cases "we" is a group of thousands of people with varying opinions. There are absolutely plenty of people who very much believe in defunding the police and ending work. As both movements have grown more popular we've naturally seen more people who agree with the general spirit of the movement but hold more moderate views.
I suppose you identified the potential problem here: people inferring that “defund the police” doesn’t actually mean “defund the police” and ascribing softer, feel-good intentions which aren’t there.
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What's up with all the language games lately? "Defund the police". No no, we don't actually mean defund the police... "Anti work". No no, we don't actually mean we're anti work...
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The movement was never ONLY Black Lives Matter, or Cops Lives Don't Matter, or any of the other ways various opponents have decided to interpret the name to justify ignoring the societal criticisms of the protests.
Truth is, words are tough, and the more complex and nuanced a topic gets to be, the more a pity simple phrase or title become impossible to be accurate. Additionally, being provocative has its uses, especially in the early awareness stages of a movement.
> "Yet, despite all the quitting and renegotiating, the real wage for the average American worker — meaning the true value of their paycheck after taking into account inflation — fell by 2.4% in 2021." Because most are still not moving. If a worker won't leave under these conditions, there is no reason to ever give them a raise as you don't need it to retain them.
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What's up with all the language games lately? "Defund the police". No no, we don't actually mean defund the police... "Anti work". No no, we don't actually mean we're anti work...
That’s been a thing forever. See also: “states’ rights”, “small government”, “personal responsibility”, none of which actually mean what they say on the label.
The former just seem like good politics: "states' rights" allowed slave owners to court people who were worried about "big government" while conveniently ignoring the grave injustice that's actually occurring. The latter seems like good twitter politics; it'll get good engagement for being so inflammatory, but at the end of the day, most people don't actually agree.
It feels fundamentally wrong that my employer cares at all about where I live when determining my 100% remote salary. Can anyone offer me rational arguments for why they shouldn’t just pay people based on what they offer the job rather than where they choose to live? Because it makes me salty to be paid half of what a colleague does because I’m in rural Canada and not San Francisco.
A somewhat parallel example is whenever someone tries getting a car repaired or plumbing work done. They may all charge their own flat rate for labor but they almost always exorbitantly overcharge for parts. Why? Because if everyone else does it, they can too. It's money on the table they would be missing out on otherwise. It's an infuriating situation (I was charged $30 for 2 $4 gaskets on my repair yesterday) but it's a pattern that's been quite commonplace.
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I actually support masks in schools. There's solid scientific evidence backing it as a mechanism to help limit the spread of COVID. Until all ages are able to be vaccinated, it seems like a prudent course of action. It's unfortunate that people are trying to turn such things into political statements.
> limit the spread of COVID I think it can be claimed that it limits the rate of spread, not total spread/infections.