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See also: Walmart and its standard practice onboarding employees by signing them up to food stamps.
Why is helping employees get government aid bad? Isn't that what government aid is supposed to be for?
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Employment rates aren't the issue IMO, wealth concentration is. And that's increasing. It's important because wealth is essentially power, so concentration of wealth inevitably changes the balance of power in society. And that in turn creates a feedback loop where the wealth and powerful can undermine thelaws and regulations intended to keep the distribution of wealth and power from becoming too lopsided. This is why…
Do you think the centralization of power in the federal government is a problem? Do you think famous people are a problem? Or is it only wealth that's a problem?
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Don't we have robots that take out the trash? The garbage trucks pickup the garbage and put it in the truck. Also, the vacuum now empties itself
forget if it empties, the fact 90%+ of my vacuuming is done automatically is incredible! I can live with the 30 seconds to empty the bin every couple weeks
Have you found those working? All my friends that have one just end up storing them somewhere never to be used again.
I buy as much as I can not from Amazon, but from AliExpress. The reason is that many kf the stores selling me brands I have never heard of, are sourced from China anyways. That kinda pisses me off.
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What was that like, going from log tables to instant calculations?
Like riding your bike to school instead of walking. (Showing my age again. Kids today don't ride bikes to school. All you gotta do is look at the lonely single bike rack at elementary schools. In my day there were lots of racks festooned with bikes. These days when I pass a school, there's a long line of moms in SUVs with the motor running talking on their phones.)
In the USA. But in plenty of other places they do. In fact, at the bike rack of my sons school there is too little place, so some of them overflow onto the school yard.
I’m torn badly with Amazon. After read The Everything Store, and what has been written all over the place, Jeff Bezos is a massive turd. Employees are horribly treated, wages suppressed, and all sorts of terrible and abusive practices. Then it comes time for me to buy something. I needed a new pair of size 14 sneakers. I drove to Adidas, Footlocker, dicks, and a few other stores but I just couldn’t justify $100 sneak…
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I meant entire states, not just state employees. Some states have fewer residents than Walmart and Amazon have employees.
I think that says more about the state's being defined badly than about the companies. There's a lot of people nowadays, and the government representation and power should be updated to match
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[1]: Hm, maybe gotta wait four years for the latter.
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There's also the other option similar to what happened after the New York Elevator Operator Strike in 1945 -- the total elimination of a profession. https://www.inc.com/thomas-koulopoulos/100-years-ago-we-fear... "It wasn't until the middle of the twentieth century that the tipping point came along for the driverless elevator as the result of a strike by the elevator operators' union in New York City in 1945. The str…
There's not enough high-value jobs to go around. We can either automate and share the wealth, or automate and have a class of useless poor people and some factory owners. Historically the former tends to end in violent ways. And so far, we haven't experimented enough with sharing the wealth in ways that also didn't turn incredibly authoritarian and also oppressive with violent ends...
it's hard to make this argument when you apply it to the industrial revolution which has already happened, and people aren't completely destitute because of it. In fact, people, on average, are wealthier because of it!
Automation means wealth, and this new-found wealth means more demand for goods/services - of which may not yet exist today. How many people would have guessed that a youtube content-creator is going to be a thing?
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Do you think the centralization of power in the federal government is a problem? Do you think famous people are a problem? Or is it only wealth that's a problem?
The government is, to a certain extend, chosen by the people.
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How are we losing open source?
I don’t agree with OP, but what they were trying to say is they’re killing open source business models. They take a popular open source project, turn it into an AWS offering and then crush any SaaS/cloud ambitions of the open source developers.