Yes, there are going to be some isolated incidents. That's why you need to have a _Federal_ minimum wage. That way when a bad manager responds by cutting hours and telling everybody to work harder the employees can do this .
for retail? Studies showed people shopped more when the sun was out, so retail used to fight to keep DST. With retail's influence waning there's not a ton of campaign dollars to push it anymore.
True story, the Fast Food joints in my hometown successfully fought off projects to build freeways through town for years because they didn't folks hopping on a freeway to get across town and not passing their restaurants on the way to work.
FB regularly receives I don't think you've got much chance of that being a problem.
But if you're really that worried about it there's an easy enough solution: More Education. In particular more liberal arts. Why the liberal arts? Because yes, you can teach critical thinking, but no, you can't do it with Math. Math is too hard, and there's no value in being half right.
Ever wonder why even to this day the rich and powerful insist on a well rounded education for their little spawnlings? Because that's the only way they can be sure at least a _little_ bit of critical thinking is pounded into their skulls no matter how dumb they are.
So educate your populace and you won't have this problem. And yeah, that means proper funding for schools, no more of this shit were we fund our schools with property taxes so the rich have nice ones with free supplies and the poor have crap ones where the parents and teachers have to scrounge for pencils.
mean that big companies can product massive amounts of goods with relatively few employees. One of the major problems our country is having is all those small businesses. The jobs they create tend to be lower pay then the factory jobs they replaced. At best they make an ok living for the owner. Plus the disperse the work force making Unionization difficult if not impossible. You end up with a bunch of poorly paid workers with no connections and no ability to lobby for better pay.
It's why we're at levels of wealth inequity not seen since the 1930.
you'll probably find that just 7 companies made 80% of the stuff you own. We gave up on enforcing antitrust laws and let companies merge whenever they wanted.
You can no longer "vote with your dollars". At this point the only thing holding them back is a (very mild) threat of government regulation. Even that is viewed as just another minor expense buying off politicians.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, we can change this whenever we want. But it involves some trade offs. People have to become more politically active and their politics have to be more focused on economics.
Also, people have to band together and agree that _nobody_ gets screwed over. One of the chief problems we have is that folks want gov't regulations to protect them and their interests but lose interest (or become actively hostile) to anything that might impose the slightest cost on themselves.
This is encapsulated the the phrase "I got mine, fuck you". That shit needs to stop.
You have the right to drive. The right to drive 100mph was taken from you to protect you and everyone around you. We all give up freedoms in exchange for order because order isn't just nice, it fucking rocks. Order is why my water is clean. It's why I just finished lunch. And it's why I didn't get my head bashed in by angry bandits (and no, nobody on/. is going to make it in a dog eat dog world, we spend too much time posting and not enough time lifting weights and combat training).
You don't have the right to put everyone around you in danger (google "herd immunity") because you're too dense to go read the actual science around vaccines. Period.
Facebook is an advertising platform. Left alone they will effectively advertise anti-vaxxer nonsense to the detriment of kids like this.
The trouble with a purely algorithmic news source is that it's going to serve you up more and more of whatever it is you're clicking on. That's because the algorithms aren't really that complex. There's no magic, it's just "People who clicked this video also clicked this video". Without someone stepping in it becomes an endless echo chamber. One that also tends to push the worst ideas up to the surface because extreme, visceral ideas get the most reactions and most clicks.
The problem is that the current ad supported Internet exists to increase engagement. They want to keep you on the page longer, clicking more and seeing more ads. This is a hyperactive version of what happened in the 80s when News shows figured out that fear sells and they all started running terrifying news stories about pedophiles and gang bangers.
My mom saw those and locked me up in my room, never mind that most pedophiles are family members or authority figures like priests and the gang bangers stayed in their own little neck of the wood because if they didn't the cops came round and busted heads. It was all lies, but it had a huge impact on my life when I spent the better half of my teenage years in constant conflict because I wasn't allowed to go anywhere or do anything. It sucked.
And yeah, she was an anti-vaxxer too. Give people like that something to be afraid of and they will. Instead, cut it the fuck out and replace it with reality.
Umpires could have been replaced with reviewing footage back in the 70s but they didn't because bad calls are part of the sport. Why do this now? Are they just trying to save money? An Umpire can't cost that much can they? And the last thing the blue collar folks who watch baseball are gonna want is to see robots on the field.
it's not "poor". Working class means the majority of your income is derived from work. The ruling class, OTOH, derives their income from ownership. e.g. "rent seeking".
that was in the process of sending our jobs to offshore. It was customer service and the only problem was the quality scores of the offshore folks were abysmal.
Somehow or another an "error" occurred and all of the offshore scores got attributed to us. Not long after the jobs finished going overseas.
You'll never once convince me that an "error" that benefits people in power is anything of the sort. Seen it way, way too often.
there's sites that'll do it for you and take a percentage. You can trace the chain of events, but you won't be able to put names to it. Eventually you cash it out for hard cash somewhere and viola, clean money.
That's sort of the problem. 2100 jobs isn't much in the vast scheme of things. But every company on earth bigger than a mom & pop is trying to figure out how to do this. And it's not just automation. It's stuff like better tech (portable payment devices that are cheap enough and reliable enough so you can have the girls handling out drinks replace your cashiers).
It'll be the death of a thousand cuts. Eventually the job losses will put downward pressure on wages, then on sales, and then more layoffs and it'll spiral down. It's a classic race to the bottom. The only thing that can stop it is human reason and action from outside the system.
that this is how it starts. Go look up the early history of Stalin & Hitler. They didn't just start shooting. They were brutal, but clever. They made sure to appear legitimate until their hold on power was complete.
not even in the legal sense. Traitor has a very, very specific legal meaning. It means treason, and good luck proving that. It's got the highest bar for anything in our legal system (and for damn good reason).
In the metaphorical sense she's anything but a traitor. She did what she felt was right to expose horrible things being done in my name and yours. Things done to protect the interests of the ultra-wealthy and powerful at the expense of everyday working Americans.
is that I think the Dems can be redeemed. There are folks like Bernie Sanders, Liz Warren, Alexandria Ocassio-Cortez & Ro Khanna who fight for the working class and the every day man/woman. There's an entire wing of the party (called "Justice Democrats") working to change the party from within. I know of no such movement in the Republican party. The closest the GOP has is Rand Paul's brand of libertarianism, but that ultimately leaves me at the mercy of folks with thousands of times more money than me.
Heck, AOC is actively working to reign the anti-worker, pro-corporate shills of the party in and primary the ones who refuse. Newt Gingrich basically did the opposite with his party in the 90s which, along with Bill Clinton, is why our country moved so far to the right and what got us in the mess we're in today.
pivoted to a lot far right, mostly anti-SJW stuff. Part of that is that the anti-SJW stuff gets clicks. Also there's a lot of right wing think tanks and they've been helping signal boost the right wing skeptic pundits and provided them with valuable consulting advice on how to grow communities.
That said none of that would matter if there wasn't a community receptive of their message. The SJW stuff is super popular, as is the gamer gate and anti-feminism stuff. But it's weird and a little disheartening that any concerns they had regarding evangelicals seemed to have vanished. It's not even like the Bernie Bros and the Corporate Dems, where one is trying to change the other. The skeptic community's just dropped most of the skepticism. Heck, a bunch are down playing the Atheism.
with the Atheists? It's bizarre, because you'd think the last folks who would be buddy buddy with the right are the Atheists, what with the right usually getting in bed with Evangelicals. Not that there aren't plenty of left wing Atheists (Aronra comes to mind. And Genetic Skeptic) but still.
they gave me a recycling bin and then cut back on garbage service to try and force me to use it. So half the time the regular garbage can was full (often one the same day as pickup from the overflow of last week). Eventually folks got tired of it and used the recycling bin as trash pickup.
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Yes, there are going to be some isolated incidents. That's why you need to have a _Federal_ minimum wage. That way when a bad manager responds by cutting hours and telling everybody to work harder the employees can do this .
for retail? Studies showed people shopped more when the sun was out, so retail used to fight to keep DST. With retail's influence waning there's not a ton of campaign dollars to push it anymore.
True story, the Fast Food joints in my hometown successfully fought off projects to build freeways through town for years because they didn't folks hopping on a freeway to get across town and not passing their restaurants on the way to work.
FB regularly receives I don't think you've got much chance of that being a problem.
But if you're really that worried about it there's an easy enough solution: More Education. In particular more liberal arts. Why the liberal arts? Because yes, you can teach critical thinking, but no, you can't do it with Math. Math is too hard, and there's no value in being half right.
Ever wonder why even to this day the rich and powerful insist on a well rounded education for their little spawnlings? Because that's the only way they can be sure at least a _little_ bit of critical thinking is pounded into their skulls no matter how dumb they are.
So educate your populace and you won't have this problem. And yeah, that means proper funding for schools, no more of this shit were we fund our schools with property taxes so the rich have nice ones with free supplies and the poor have crap ones where the parents and teachers have to scrounge for pencils.
mean that big companies can product massive amounts of goods with relatively few employees. One of the major problems our country is having is all those small businesses. The jobs they create tend to be lower pay then the factory jobs they replaced. At best they make an ok living for the owner. Plus the disperse the work force making Unionization difficult if not impossible. You end up with a bunch of poorly paid workers with no connections and no ability to lobby for better pay.
It's why we're at levels of wealth inequity not seen since the 1930.
you can go to the far ends of your city and odds are you're buying from those same 7 companies. Short of joining a commune you're stuck.
And it's not like you have a choice. The company you did business with for 20 years gets bought out by a mega conglomerate again, you're stuck.
Whether you buy from Amazon, drive down to Walmart, Target, Costco, whatever. The stuff you buy is made in one of a few factories by a few companies.
you'll probably find that just 7 companies made 80% of the stuff you own. We gave up on enforcing antitrust laws and let companies merge whenever they wanted.
You can no longer "vote with your dollars". At this point the only thing holding them back is a (very mild) threat of government regulation. Even that is viewed as just another minor expense buying off politicians.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, we can change this whenever we want. But it involves some trade offs. People have to become more politically active and their politics have to be more focused on economics.
Also, people have to band together and agree that _nobody_ gets screwed over. One of the chief problems we have is that folks want gov't regulations to protect them and their interests but lose interest (or become actively hostile) to anything that might impose the slightest cost on themselves.
This is encapsulated the the phrase "I got mine, fuck you". That shit needs to stop.
You have the right to drive. The right to drive 100mph was taken from you to protect you and everyone around you. We all give up freedoms in exchange for order because order isn't just nice, it fucking rocks. Order is why my water is clean. It's why I just finished lunch. And it's why I didn't get my head bashed in by angry bandits (and no, nobody on /. is going to make it in a dog eat dog world, we spend too much time posting and not enough time lifting weights and combat training).
You don't have the right to put everyone around you in danger (google "herd immunity") because you're too dense to go read the actual science around vaccines. Period.
Facebook is an advertising platform. Left alone they will effectively advertise anti-vaxxer nonsense to the detriment of kids like this.
The trouble with a purely algorithmic news source is that it's going to serve you up more and more of whatever it is you're clicking on. That's because the algorithms aren't really that complex. There's no magic, it's just "People who clicked this video also clicked this video". Without someone stepping in it becomes an endless echo chamber. One that also tends to push the worst ideas up to the surface because extreme, visceral ideas get the most reactions and most clicks.
The problem is that the current ad supported Internet exists to increase engagement. They want to keep you on the page longer, clicking more and seeing more ads. This is a hyperactive version of what happened in the 80s when News shows figured out that fear sells and they all started running terrifying news stories about pedophiles and gang bangers.
My mom saw those and locked me up in my room, never mind that most pedophiles are family members or authority figures like priests and the gang bangers stayed in their own little neck of the wood because if they didn't the cops came round and busted heads. It was all lies, but it had a huge impact on my life when I spent the better half of my teenage years in constant conflict because I wasn't allowed to go anywhere or do anything. It sucked.
And yeah, she was an anti-vaxxer too. Give people like that something to be afraid of and they will. Instead, cut it the fuck out and replace it with reality.
Umpires could have been replaced with reviewing footage back in the 70s but they didn't because bad calls are part of the sport. Why do this now? Are they just trying to save money? An Umpire can't cost that much can they? And the last thing the blue collar folks who watch baseball are gonna want is to see robots on the field.
it's not "poor". Working class means the majority of your income is derived from work. The ruling class, OTOH, derives their income from ownership. e.g. "rent seeking".
And thanks to recent changes to tax law that percentage is increasing. We're not too far off from Monarchy as is.
that was in the process of sending our jobs to offshore. It was customer service and the only problem was the quality scores of the offshore folks were abysmal.
Somehow or another an "error" occurred and all of the offshore scores got attributed to us. Not long after the jobs finished going overseas.
You'll never once convince me that an "error" that benefits people in power is anything of the sort. Seen it way, way too often.
there's sites that'll do it for you and take a percentage. You can trace the chain of events, but you won't be able to put names to it. Eventually you cash it out for hard cash somewhere and viola, clean money.
wish I could say the same about my class.
That's sort of the problem. 2100 jobs isn't much in the vast scheme of things. But every company on earth bigger than a mom & pop is trying to figure out how to do this. And it's not just automation. It's stuff like better tech (portable payment devices that are cheap enough and reliable enough so you can have the girls handling out drinks replace your cashiers).
It'll be the death of a thousand cuts. Eventually the job losses will put downward pressure on wages, then on sales, and then more layoffs and it'll spiral down. It's a classic race to the bottom. The only thing that can stop it is human reason and action from outside the system.
that this is how it starts. Go look up the early history of Stalin & Hitler. They didn't just start shooting. They were brutal, but clever. They made sure to appear legitimate until their hold on power was complete.
not even in the legal sense. Traitor has a very, very specific legal meaning. It means treason, and good luck proving that. It's got the highest bar for anything in our legal system (and for damn good reason).
In the metaphorical sense she's anything but a traitor. She did what she felt was right to expose horrible things being done in my name and yours. Things done to protect the interests of the ultra-wealthy and powerful at the expense of everyday working Americans.
is that I think the Dems can be redeemed. There are folks like Bernie Sanders, Liz Warren, Alexandria Ocassio-Cortez & Ro Khanna who fight for the working class and the every day man/woman. There's an entire wing of the party (called "Justice Democrats") working to change the party from within. I know of no such movement in the Republican party. The closest the GOP has is Rand Paul's brand of libertarianism, but that ultimately leaves me at the mercy of folks with thousands of times more money than me.
Heck, AOC is actively working to reign the anti-worker, pro-corporate shills of the party in and primary the ones who refuse. Newt Gingrich basically did the opposite with his party in the 90s which, along with Bill Clinton, is why our country moved so far to the right and what got us in the mess we're in today.
the only movie they ever made that I really like was Lilo & Stitch ("Oh good, my dog found the chainsaw!") which they were pretty hands off on.
They seem to see their fans as sacks of money rather than people. It sucks to be in an adversarial role with the company that owns the stuff you love.
of murdering people for money. I could find dozens of examples in the last year (Military Industrial Complex anyone?).
So yeah, you're words are kinda hollow. Bordering on silly really.
pivoted to a lot far right, mostly anti-SJW stuff. Part of that is that the anti-SJW stuff gets clicks. Also there's a lot of right wing think tanks and they've been helping signal boost the right wing skeptic pundits and provided them with valuable consulting advice on how to grow communities.
That said none of that would matter if there wasn't a community receptive of their message. The SJW stuff is super popular, as is the gamer gate and anti-feminism stuff. But it's weird and a little disheartening that any concerns they had regarding evangelicals seemed to have vanished. It's not even like the Bernie Bros and the Corporate Dems, where one is trying to change the other. The skeptic community's just dropped most of the skepticism. Heck, a bunch are down playing the Atheism.
with the Atheists? It's bizarre, because you'd think the last folks who would be buddy buddy with the right are the Atheists, what with the right usually getting in bed with Evangelicals. Not that there aren't plenty of left wing Atheists (Aronra comes to mind. And Genetic Skeptic) but still.
they gave me a recycling bin and then cut back on garbage service to try and force me to use it. So half the time the regular garbage can was full (often one the same day as pickup from the overflow of last week). Eventually folks got tired of it and used the recycling bin as trash pickup.
Luxury! Why, back in my day we had nothing but a single serial line on our PDP-10s and we were thankful.
Postal Banking.