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Over a Third of Americans Battle Job Burnout Every Single Week

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Post by imtringued »

archgoon wrote: post #207
lotsofpulp wrote: post #147

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> Also, commuting time should be paid as work time. There are so many people with crazy commutes that don't get paid a dime for it. I seem to recall that some European country had in fact required companies to pay for their employees' commutes. The US should follow suit. Yes, we need more discrimination against poor people who can’t afford to live near job centers.

This seems like it would have the opposite effect as it would allow for higher earners to work further out and decrease demand for in city housing.

Companies can't conjure money out of nothing. If they have to pay X dollars for your commute then they have X dollars less to pay you.

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Post by enraged_camel »

thfuran wrote: post #142
enraged_camel wrote: post #125

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10 business days, which comes down to 14 days when you include weekends.

What kind of BS counting is that? Unless you usually work weekends, not working on a weekend isn't a vacation.

What I'm saying is that, here in the US, when people say things like "I get two weeks of PTO per year", they mean 10 business days, not 14.

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Post by dredmorbius »

imtringued wrote: post #211
archgoon wrote: post #207

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This seems like it would have the opposite effect as it would allow for higher earners to work further out and decrease demand for in city housing.

Companies can't conjure money out of nothing. If they have to pay X dollars for your commute then they have X dollars less to pay you.

Flipside: worker's noncompensated contributions to employment aren't free.

Ulitmately, labour benefits the business, and surplus accrues to the business. Changing costs mean a shifting balance of inputs (labour, capital). But if your firm isn't profitable whilst paying a living and sustaining wage to its workers, then what exists isn't a profit-making enterprise, but a charity, on behalf of the owners, subsidised by the workers.

There's no law that says a non-viable business has a right to continue operations.

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Post by dredmorbius »

This ... article ... is awfully scarce on details concerning the study, authors, methods, or links to any of the above.

There's a more direct link here, though still nothing on methods or sampling:

http://web.archive.org/web/20191103070123/https://tollfreefo...

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Post by andrei_says_ »

beat wrote: post #185
andrei_says_ wrote: post #161

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Which is indeed very hopeful. The level of institutionalized corruption including in how money selects who appears on ballots makes this a difficult process. This is a great reminder of the root issues we need to deal with. https://www.ted.com/talks/lawrence_lessig_we_the_people_and_...

After having looked at it for a long time, I'm convinced that "institutionalized corruption" is a pleasing myth with no grounding in reality. Money in politics flows to candidates who already agree with those who control the money. It doesn't go to change the minds of those who disagree.

please take a look at Lessig’s talk if you have 15 min

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Post by andrei_says_ »

ThrowawayR2 wrote: post #204
hiram112 wrote: post #188

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Be careful what you wish for here. Since Obamacare, most white collar workers will admit that their insurance is worse and simultaneously more expensive. That's to be expected, because those who pay insurance and are healthy are now paying for many people who previously had less of a safety net. No free lunch and all. Obamacare has twisted some of the incentives of actually working, though. Many of us in groups like…

Bingo. The problem with healthcare-for-all is it's impossible to pay for without raising taxes across the board eventually, regardless of how much the candidates swear that it won't, and the voters know it. If you want European-style healthcare systems, you'll need European-level taxation. (This is also why UBI won't ever get off the ground; voters aren't stupid. All that money has got to come from somewhere.)

Raising taxes while eliminating healthcare premiums.

Replacing a system designed to extract as much as possible from people needing medical help in order to enrich corporations with a system optimized for cost and efficiency.

Insurance is already based on paying for other people’s expenses except that it’s optimized for the profit of the ones running the scheme.

So how do we pay for Medicare for all?

We take 80% of the money, return it to the payers, and pay with the rest, in the form of taxes.

I wouldn’t mind a slight increase in taxes in exchange of knowing that I and nobody else has to ever be afraid to go to the doctor because they can’t afford it.

Ambulance rides don’t need to cost $3000, or a night at the hospital $1000.

Once we have one huge entity to negotiate pricing for everyone (about the only thing insurance companies have going on for them), we won’t have to be paying 10x to 100x what the services cost to provide.

Or should we continue sacrificing human lives and health to the altar of quarterly profits for a handful of people?

Healthcare is a solved problem in all first world countries. Trying to spin it into something else is insulting.

People are not stupid and propaganda has its limits.

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Post by eeZah7Ux »

mcv wrote: post #200
eeZah7Ux wrote: post #99

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Nobody falls for this anymore. Scrum are agile are extremely effective at fostering micromanagement and overworking and burning out developers. It's almost always pushed by management, consultants, PMs rather than the ones that have to carry the weight. "You are doing it wrong, we are here to help" is an old trick.

Tell them to leave you alone. Have your PO keep the stakeholders at bay if they don't know how to behave. Take advice on scrum and agile only from people who actually know what they're talking about. Everybody else is just amateurs.

Employees cannot choose who to take advice from when decisions are imposed by management - to benefit management.
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