I know many people that in the late 70's went to work for "Wal-Mart" (now Walmart) that got paid squat for an hourly wage
Squat back in the 70's is more than squat today.
If you go to work when you are 18-25
You think most Amazon warehouse employees are 18-25??? Most pickers are, but those are being automated and there aren't that many of them. Packers, etc. tend to be fairly old (say, 40's+)
And paying your horrible employee merely less doesn't get him out of the way. He should be fired. Heck, being able to "pay him less" actually makes it more likely he'll stick around longer.
I see, you want to debate Barrak Obama. We were talking about the Peace Prize, and the standards of it. But, all you do is talk about how horrendous Obama is.
It's been almost two years. You might want to get over it.
You can't make money out of nothing, or rather wealth out of nothing
Of course you can.... look at Rembrant arranging paint, or the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Or the invention of the airplane.
Bill Gates, for example, if he'd had to compete fairly in a level-playing-fielded marketplace, in which he couldn't exploit the system and guess right, (guess, not KNOW,) in what ways he could do things, would be a name you and I would most likely NEVER have heard of.
It may not have been BG who won, but someone would have ended up owning the OS market. Cause interoperability works like that.
No one has come up with an idea all on his own, or done anything worth THAT much for that long, for THAT many people, besides the likes of Issac Newton, Nikola Tesla, Jonas Salk, Albert Einstein, Michael Faraday, James Clark Maxwell, (grudgingly I'll add Thomas Edison
Does it matter if Einstein came up with his theories on his own or based them on extending other people's work? Why?
They looked at it as they just need to drive 12 hours per week and the car is free. I understand extenuating circumstances, but talk about indentured servitude...
If they drive enough hours (I believe 40 hours of what Lyft determined to be "peak time"), it actually is free (paid by Lyft) that week. It rapidly approaches a regular job at that point, since if you supply enough peak rides, the car costs (car, insurance, maintenance) is covered. Not gas though...
Don't worry, before they monetize it there will be an update to the TOS. And people who don't agree to the new terms will be able to quit their jobs, pull their kids out of school and move to a different city.
I started the conversation with how "peace prizes are aspirational". You brought up Obama as a (implicitly unique) disproving case. I rebutted with other examples. Now you're trying to shift it to "how do you feel about Obama, I still hate him!!" I'm not going to defend Obama because it's being distracted to your goalpost shifting.
It's not "other retailers" as a vague threat. WalMart is stepping up their game online, and is starting to appear as a real threat (I've started comparison shopping between the two, for instance.) Raising the minimum wage to $15/hr affects 17,000 full time Amazon employees, but more than 100x for WalMart, at least 1,700,000
This affects 17,000 full time employees of Amazon, and 20,000 seasonal workers (so, ~10% of their employees). Meanwhile, WalMart is starting to step up their game and compete. WalMart has 7 times as many employees and a much higher percentage of them are below $15/hr. This is designed to hurt them.
Also, with the stock doubling over the last year, I'm sure they're scared of the cost of options.
I haven't gotten any calls from Hilton. But, I do know that while companies make robocalls, they also tend to be responsive to "take me off your call list"
Warehouses are all located just outside cities. About the same distance, because they are logistic centers. They need to be close to the places the ship to (and next to major truck routes), and where land is cheaper.
No, but somehow the Nobel Prize committee awarded Obama a peace award for.... well.... nothing?
The Nobel Peace Prize, explicitly, is not for achievement. It's designed to shine attention on what the committee thinks is important. It's supposed to be a political statement.
How much are you willing to pay to be able to play games on ultra settings on computers that don't meet the minimum system requirements for those games?
Nothing. I don't really care about the settings (for normal play, I do crank them up at the beginning to ooh and ahh.)
? How much are you willing to pay to play a AAA game on a Mac that hasn't been released for Mac. PC games on Chromebook?
Nothing, I don't game on a mac, and I don't use a chromebook.
When youtube/netflix never needs to buffer at 1080p (and only 30fps) doesn't ever buffer, maybe. Til then, fuck off.
Oh, sure, they have different power behind them, and have different sensitivities to pressure. But the OP seemed to think you could create a powerless, differentiated, board position without equal voting rights.
I tend to assume that the women will be closely related or aligned to existing power blocks. I doubt anything is going to change because of it, except for who's getting rich(er).
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It was a typo of "coverage". Why they didn't just say that, and doubled down as intentional, I do not know.
Ummm.. the orders to launch nukes don't come over cell-phones. This is the civilian alert system, not the military one.
Yes, people making 20k a year are always worried about minimizing their tax burden. That occupies a lot of their thought.
Squat back in the 70's is more than squat today.
You think most Amazon warehouse employees are 18-25??? Most pickers are, but those are being automated and there aren't that many of them. Packers, etc. tend to be fairly old (say, 40's+)
And paying your horrible employee merely less doesn't get him out of the way. He should be fired. Heck, being able to "pay him less" actually makes it more likely he'll stick around longer.
Amazon already fires unproductive people. And "unproductive" includes things like taking bathroom or lunch breaks.
But, why would it be bad if all warehouse workers were paid the same regardless of productivity?
I see, you want to debate Barrak Obama. We were talking about the Peace Prize, and the standards of it. But, all you do is talk about how horrendous Obama is.
It's been almost two years. You might want to get over it.
Of course you can.... look at Rembrant arranging paint, or the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Or the invention of the airplane.
It may not have been BG who won, but someone would have ended up owning the OS market. Cause interoperability works like that.
Does it matter if Einstein came up with his theories on his own or based them on extending other people's work? Why?
If they drive enough hours (I believe 40 hours of what Lyft determined to be "peak time"), it actually is free (paid by Lyft) that week. It rapidly approaches a regular job at that point, since if you supply enough peak rides, the car costs (car, insurance, maintenance) is covered. Not gas though...
Don't worry, before they monetize it there will be an update to the TOS. And people who don't agree to the new terms will be able to quit their jobs, pull their kids out of school and move to a different city.
I started the conversation with how "peace prizes are aspirational". You brought up Obama as a (implicitly unique) disproving case. I rebutted with other examples. Now you're trying to shift it to "how do you feel about Obama, I still hate him!!" I'm not going to defend Obama because it's being distracted to your goalpost shifting.
It's not "other retailers" as a vague threat. WalMart is stepping up their game online, and is starting to appear as a real threat (I've started comparison shopping between the two, for instance.) Raising the minimum wage to $15/hr affects 17,000 full time Amazon employees, but more than 100x for WalMart, at least 1,700,000
This affects 17,000 full time employees of Amazon, and 20,000 seasonal workers (so, ~10% of their employees). Meanwhile, WalMart is starting to step up their game and compete. WalMart has 7 times as many employees and a much higher percentage of them are below $15/hr. This is designed to hurt them.
Also, with the stock doubling over the last year, I'm sure they're scared of the cost of options.
17,000 full time employees, and 20,000 seasonal employees.
I haven't gotten any calls from Hilton. But, I do know that while companies make robocalls, they also tend to be responsive to "take me off your call list"
They stopped spam robocalls from reputable, US companies.
Except, you know, he's not. I mean, look at 1994 or 1996.
Warehouses are all located just outside cities. About the same distance, because they are logistic centers. They need to be close to the places the ship to (and next to major truck routes), and where land is cheaper.
The Nobel Peace Prize, explicitly, is not for achievement. It's designed to shine attention on what the committee thinks is important. It's supposed to be a political statement.
I'm sure the UK would throw a national security exception on publishing that patent. Maybe they did, and it's in use in their military.
Movies and TV are watch once. You need constant of new content. Games can have a lot of replayability.
Nothing. I don't really care about the settings (for normal play, I do crank them up at the beginning to ooh and ahh.)
Nothing, I don't game on a mac, and I don't use a chromebook.
When youtube/netflix never needs to buffer at 1080p (and only 30fps) doesn't ever buffer, maybe. Til then, fuck off.
Until an abusive spouse puts the house on the "do not react" list, and the next times things get physical...
It depends on where you work. Unions, for example, make that knowledge far easier to get and discuss.
Oh, sure, they have different power behind them, and have different sensitivities to pressure. But the OP seemed to think you could create a powerless, differentiated, board position without equal voting rights.
I tend to assume that the women will be closely related or aligned to existing power blocks. I doubt anything is going to change because of it, except for who's getting rich(er).