that was one of the craziest things they ever got away with. When I was a kid a stock buy back wasn't just illegal it was considered a ridiculous form of market manipulation.
it's a sign of how bad the job market is for programmers that they can pull this crap. Thing is, even if those 9 bail they can just go to Congress and get more H1-Bs ("But. But. But we can't find anyone qualified!").
Heck, the current administration just added another 20,000 PHD candidates to the H1-B cap (they sold it as a benefit to workers because they'd require more PHDs ignoring that those PHDs are in addition to the existing 65k cap. Got away with it too...).
I'm really disappointed. I didn't expect much from this current crop of politicians, but I thought at least they wouldn't increase the caps. Heck, the H2-B (low skill temp labor) caps are getting doubled.
Bernie Sanders and Liz Warren come to mind. Martin Luther King was an SJW. Yeah, there are some bastards out there, mostly preying on frightened women and minorities in the exact same way the religious right prey on church goers. But your criticism should be directly carefully, like a scalpel. Right now it's more like a machete wielded by a South African Death squad.
I mean that, btw. Just like those Death Squads got wiped up into a frenzy the anti-SJW crowd is getting the same. They're not actively committing murder, but give it a few more economic crashes, some food shortages due to climate change and throw in mass unemployment due to automation and we'll get there in no time flat.
Nothing's really changed with humanity. We're just as fragile and violent as we were when the Aztecs were doing mass human sacrifice. We should be aware of that and careful to stop it from getting to that point again.
what we're asking is, in a society where all or most decisions are made by investors what is the optimal decision?
Good ROI is _never_ enough. Great ROI is never enough. It has to be extraordinary. That's why you've got so many venture capitalists buying up life saving medicines and raising the price 4000%. That's why my dad just paid $800 for his insulin... on Medicare (thanks Bush Jr and Medicare part D, and thanks for the right wing Clinton style Dems who voted for it, I'm looking at you Corey Booker. ).
There's amazing games in all those categories. Hat in Time, Shantae Half Genie Hero & Sonic Mania, The Crash Bandicoot remakes, Life is Strange, there's a pixel art cyber punk on I can't for the life of me remember the name of and while I don't play strat games my bro who does tells me it's a golden age.
As for city builders There's 3 or 4 good ones, a couple new Theme Park style games and even a theme hospital style game. Again, I don't play 'em so it's word of mouth.
The only downside is they're really only getting the Indie and/or AA treatment. None of these genres get the AAA treatment they used to. So the set pieces are a bit less spectacular and the graphics a little less polished. Also if you're a PC gamer expect to spend an extra $500 bucks on your rig for a better CPU & GPU.
sold just fine. Far Cry 5 was the top selling Far Cry game in history and a spin off game was green lit. BF V for all the talk still moved 7.3 million copies. Not bad for a year when everybody was going up against the twin juggernauts of Fortnite and Red Dead Redemption 2.
The article is more about growth. The games industry has grown like crazy thanks to micro transaction bullshit. Seriously, these companies are all hitting record profits with insane valuations.
The YouTuber Jim Sterling has been pointing out this is not sustainable. There's only so many hours in a day for these crappy "live services" games. Plus a recession is coming and while recessions normally are good for the industry (folks cut back on vacations and play games at home) nobody knows if that'll hold true for Micro transactions and loot boxes.
they lean in with action and then romance. At least in the 80s and 90s (stopped reading by late 99 when the prices and crossovers got crazy). Go read any run on Teen Titans and you'll find they play out in that exact way. Young Justice ran the same way too. DC likes it's romance.
For Marvel you've got a point. Besides the various Jean Grey/Scott Summers love triangles it's rare to see them devote more than a half page to romance before Hulk starts smashin' and Thing starts clobberin'.
It's because religion is on the decline and they're seeking alternate communities that accept members without preconditions.
As a nerd I've engaged in and witnessed this behavior many a time. Nerds and weirdos have a hard time making friends and keeping them. Folks don't think much about what it really means to have "poor social skills". It means you constantly blurt out the wrong thing and make folks around you uncomfortable.
So you need a community that's not likely to kick you to the curb. The easiest way to find that is to look for a community under attack from outside. New members are an asset not to be discarded. The gun community does this too. Pipe clubs too.
There's also a desire to have something bigger than yourself to believe in. Not out of fear, but out of wonder. Folks like to think the world has mysteries that only they and their friends solved. That's a big part of religion, and as Church attendance declines in the wake of scandals folks are turning to new age crap like Goop and conspiracy theories to scratch that itch.
Putin is not a friend of the free press. If he releases information it's solely to benefit himself at the expense of his enemies. This means the information he has released is likely to be incomplete. It will be missing anything that shows his administration in a negative light.
Go watch John Oliver's latest Brexit Video. It's terrifying how many people were just casually manipulated by the propaganda and are now realizing how screwed they'll be. The guy selling flowers who's business will cease to be if Brexit happens sticks out.
This isn't to say you oppose or hide from the truth. But it means you have to be very, very careful with your sources of information, even if that information is, ostensibly, true. Like Homer Simpson said: "You can use facts to prove anything that is even remotely true". The word that makes that line more than a joke is "remotely". It's called stretching the truth.
Battlefield V sold 7.3 million copies. Far Cry 5 was the best selling game in the franchise.
These companies are doing insanely great. But it's never enough. If you grew 600% last year you better grow 700% this year.
It's a symptom of a larger structural problems with our economy. Like Payless Shoes and Toys R US. It's why we're about to go into a (completely avoidable) recession...
and the patent looks like another example of stringing existing tech together for it's exact intended purpose. Similar to "one click shopping". It's just computers doing computer stuf. e.g. I think it would fail any test of novelty or newness.
from a company with a history of not paying taxes.
The expected outcome, based on prior experience, is that Amazon would have pocketed their subsidies and then when they dried up left.
This isn't Job Creation, it's Job Extortion.
Nice right wing talking points ya got there, BTW. Even worked in some AOC there even though she had nothing to do with it except personally opposing the deal. Do you work for a right wing think tank or just parrot everything they tell you to for free?
The anti-vaxxers are loud but having them on the Internet means they have access to the truth. For example, google "Are vaccines safe" and you'll find several pages of pro-vaccine literature. Same with "Do vaccines cause autism".
Also, the Internet means that the next generation is going to grow up in a world where the default is having lots of information. That generation is about to hit the workforce in mass in about 2-5 years (give or take). Same for voting.
hell, you said so in the first paragraph. The Gov't of NYC was ready to bend over backwards. Excuse me, let me rephrase that, they were ready to bend the taxpayer over backwards.
The NYC taxpayers, OTOH, took exception with what amounted to handing Amazon $3 billion dollars in return for some jobs that may or may not materialize and that, even if they did, might end up going to folks brought in from out of state. They're the ones that shut down the deal by loudly protesting and making it clear that if their "leaders" went ahead with the giveaway there'd be a blood bath at the polls next election.
Like I said on the last NYC Amazon thread, Bully for them. It's high time we start standing up to these corporate A-holes and taking our country back from them.
Also, Kansas, like most of the flyover states, is facing an economic crisis because they've slashed taxes so much companies don't want to set up shop there and college grads leave first chance they get. I suppose crap like this though is better than actually trying to solve those problems. Beats the hell out of trying to convince the folks who bankrolled your campaign that their taxes need to go up.
would have kept us from getting to the moon or even launching satellites.
The Green New Deal as it stands is a non binding resolution. It's there to get the ball rolling. Step out of the Fox News bubble and you'll learn that
That said, we're going to have to go to renewables at some point. And unless you're a climate change denier then it's either going to be soon or we're gonna have famine and war from the disruption to our food supply.
More immediately Automation is coming for about 20% of the jobs in the next 20 years. That's an optimistic outlook. Again, we either find something for all those out of work coal miners, truck drivers and cashiers to do or they'll do the same thing large, abandoned populations have done for centuries: find somebody to organize them into a mob, then an army, and then come and kill you and take your stuff.
Sure, a lot of them will die, but I seem to remember somebody telling them "What have you got to lose?"...
I'm saying that the left actively suppress and argues with their anti-vaxxers. The right actively encourages them. Again, could you imagine the Democrats running an anti-vaxxer candidate for president? Could you imagine that candidate _winning_?
Anti-vaxxers aren't woefully ignorant, they're _willfully_ ignorant. I think that's a huge part of the problem. It's the same as flat earthers and cultists in general. There's a community there that feels like they're under siege. Folks like that accept all comers. That means if you're the kind of kook that gets kicked out of most communities you're still welcome.
Trump questions vaccines because that got him in with that community with very little effort and virtually no cost. Trump's modus operandi is to say everything, see what he gets away with, and drop anything that doesn't go over well and act like he never said it. Folks forget that Trump is very, very well educated. He's rich, after all. Now, he sucks at everything he does, but that's not stupidity per-se. Stupidity is the complete inability to process information beyond a certain level. Trump's not incapable, he's unwilling because, thanks to his dad's money, he doesn't have to.
Bottom line, to the right wing the anti-vaxxers are useful idiots. To the left they're unfortunate fools to be pitied and educated so they don't kill themselves or others.
but the bulk of the left wing will call them out. And the closest thing the left has to an establishment (the late night talk shows and maybe these guys) call the anti-vax crowd out all the time.
The right wing, by comparison, elected an anti-vaxxer to the highest office of the land. I'd say GP is correct here.
The difference is left tries to reason with our kooks. The right is using them to achieve other political ends.
Hell, if I want to take it further that kind of "ends justifies the means" is why the right wing in America can welcome both the anti-Semitic white supremacists with Trump's "Both sides are bad" comment while also being staunch supporters of Israel.
The right has goals rather than principals. Makes them strong, but it also means they let a lot of fucked up shit slide that the left doesn't.
they don't arrest them until they bother folks well above their social class. They're not enforcing the law, they're enforcing a twisted social order. That's why poor folk don't take kindly to the cops. They're not there to serve and protect. They're there to oppress and contain.
And no I'm not a "Fuck the Police" type. They're a product of the system. If nobody calls out the system's bullshit nothing changes.
We've got the pain ray now. Google it. We could keep him in unending agony for years, stopping only to make sure his heart doesn't give out.
Torture isn't a slippery slope, It's the God damn K5. Once you start down that path you've devalued human life on such a fundamental level that anything is possible. Don't let rage blind you.
the folks responsible for the Flint, Mi water crisis did it to skim money off the top of the local water utility. They gave their friends a contract they had no business doing.
What I'm saying is, he's not necessarily a psycho, he might just be an opportunist. i.e. this was a money making operation and he figured a relatively harmless one. Annoying as hell, but harmless. Now, we know that swat teams tend to show up to these kind of things and then shoot the place up. But if you haven't been reading/. you might not know that.
In other words, he's not necessarily a complete psycho, just an asshole out for a quick buck. Add a bad economy to the mix and you could see where a guy might not have a lot of sympathy for society at large.
That said, I'd rather leave it to a professional to determine if he's an actual, clinical psychopath and whether he could be cured or not. And either way I am _not_ a psychopath and so would prefer we find a way to make him harmless with the minimal amount of harm. Naive? Maybe. But then again I'm a humanist.
and we're way past envy. 32,000 Americans will die of treatable illnesses this year. A decade ago it was 45k but the ACA slowed it down.
We got that because people banded together against the insurance companies. It's the same for wages. I can break a stick. Bind a hundred of them and I can't break it anymore. Ancient fucking China figured that out. Why the hell can't you? They're gonna eat you alive.
the Screen actors guild has for decades insured actors get paid for work. Yeah, everybody points to Tom Cruise's big paydays and forgets all the smaller productions out there.
And don't forget all the blue collar folks who make movies happen. Sets don't build themselves. I know guys who did that work and they wouldn't trade their Union for anything.
As for Income inequity, their Union got them better pay. If the boss makes 100,000,000,000/yr and your making $100,000 yeah, income inequality is pretty bad there. But your Union (and you too, don't forget, the Union is Yout!) got you that $100k. They'd pay you $20k if they could get a way with it and without a Union to negotiate they would.
I think I finally see the problem though (if I may go a bit off topic). People have stopped thinking of themselves as "Union" and started thinking of a Union as a third party negotiator you just happen to hire. Folks forgot what it is to actually _belong_ to a Union. Now I wonder who put that idea into their heads
If you don't maintain a thing it breaks down. What did you expect? Try skipping your cars oil changes for 40 years and let me know how that turns out for you. And do that while somebody is putting sugar in your tank.
We need to start passing pro-Union laws to protect American's collective bargaining rights again. Eliminating "right to work" (my God the right wing is good at marketing) laws is a good start. Also we need a ton of new laws banning companies from punishing workers for Unionizing. And anti Union busting laws too.
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that was one of the craziest things they ever got away with. When I was a kid a stock buy back wasn't just illegal it was considered a ridiculous form of market manipulation.
it's a sign of how bad the job market is for programmers that they can pull this crap. Thing is, even if those 9 bail they can just go to Congress and get more H1-Bs ("But. But. But we can't find anyone qualified!").
Heck, the current administration just added another 20,000 PHD candidates to the H1-B cap (they sold it as a benefit to workers because they'd require more PHDs ignoring that those PHDs are in addition to the existing 65k cap. Got away with it too...).
I'm really disappointed. I didn't expect much from this current crop of politicians, but I thought at least they wouldn't increase the caps. Heck, the H2-B (low skill temp labor) caps are getting doubled.
Bernie Sanders and Liz Warren come to mind. Martin Luther King was an SJW. Yeah, there are some bastards out there, mostly preying on frightened women and minorities in the exact same way the religious right prey on church goers. But your criticism should be directly carefully, like a scalpel. Right now it's more like a machete wielded by a South African Death squad.
I mean that, btw. Just like those Death Squads got wiped up into a frenzy the anti-SJW crowd is getting the same. They're not actively committing murder, but give it a few more economic crashes, some food shortages due to climate change and throw in mass unemployment due to automation and we'll get there in no time flat.
Nothing's really changed with humanity. We're just as fragile and violent as we were when the Aztecs were doing mass human sacrifice. We should be aware of that and careful to stop it from getting to that point again.
what we're asking is, in a society where all or most decisions are made by investors what is the optimal decision?
Good ROI is _never_ enough. Great ROI is never enough. It has to be extraordinary. That's why you've got so many venture capitalists buying up life saving medicines and raising the price 4000%. That's why my dad just paid $800 for his insulin... on Medicare (thanks Bush Jr and Medicare part D, and thanks for the right wing Clinton style Dems who voted for it, I'm looking at you Corey Booker. ).
There's amazing games in all those categories. Hat in Time, Shantae Half Genie Hero & Sonic Mania, The Crash Bandicoot remakes, Life is Strange, there's a pixel art cyber punk on I can't for the life of me remember the name of and while I don't play strat games my bro who does tells me it's a golden age.
As for city builders There's 3 or 4 good ones, a couple new Theme Park style games and even a theme hospital style game. Again, I don't play 'em so it's word of mouth.
The only downside is they're really only getting the Indie and/or AA treatment. None of these genres get the AAA treatment they used to. So the set pieces are a bit less spectacular and the graphics a little less polished. Also if you're a PC gamer expect to spend an extra $500 bucks on your rig for a better CPU & GPU.
sold just fine. Far Cry 5 was the top selling Far Cry game in history and a spin off game was green lit. BF V for all the talk still moved 7.3 million copies. Not bad for a year when everybody was going up against the twin juggernauts of Fortnite and Red Dead Redemption 2.
The article is more about growth. The games industry has grown like crazy thanks to micro transaction bullshit. Seriously, these companies are all hitting record profits with insane valuations.
The YouTuber Jim Sterling has been pointing out this is not sustainable. There's only so many hours in a day for these crappy "live services" games. Plus a recession is coming and while recessions normally are good for the industry (folks cut back on vacations and play games at home) nobody knows if that'll hold true for Micro transactions and loot boxes.
they lean in with action and then romance. At least in the 80s and 90s (stopped reading by late 99 when the prices and crossovers got crazy). Go read any run on Teen Titans and you'll find they play out in that exact way. Young Justice ran the same way too. DC likes it's romance.
For Marvel you've got a point. Besides the various Jean Grey/Scott Summers love triangles it's rare to see them devote more than a half page to romance before Hulk starts smashin' and Thing starts clobberin'.
It's because religion is on the decline and they're seeking alternate communities that accept members without preconditions.
As a nerd I've engaged in and witnessed this behavior many a time. Nerds and weirdos have a hard time making friends and keeping them. Folks don't think much about what it really means to have "poor social skills". It means you constantly blurt out the wrong thing and make folks around you uncomfortable.
So you need a community that's not likely to kick you to the curb. The easiest way to find that is to look for a community under attack from outside. New members are an asset not to be discarded. The gun community does this too. Pipe clubs too.
There's also a desire to have something bigger than yourself to believe in. Not out of fear, but out of wonder. Folks like to think the world has mysteries that only they and their friends solved. That's a big part of religion, and as Church attendance declines in the wake of scandals folks are turning to new age crap like Goop and conspiracy theories to scratch that itch.
especially disinformation.
Putin is not a friend of the free press. If he releases information it's solely to benefit himself at the expense of his enemies. This means the information he has released is likely to be incomplete. It will be missing anything that shows his administration in a negative light.
Go watch John Oliver's latest Brexit Video. It's terrifying how many people were just casually manipulated by the propaganda and are now realizing how screwed they'll be. The guy selling flowers who's business will cease to be if Brexit happens sticks out.
This isn't to say you oppose or hide from the truth. But it means you have to be very, very careful with your sources of information, even if that information is, ostensibly, true. Like Homer Simpson said: "You can use facts to prove anything that is even remotely true". The word that makes that line more than a joke is "remotely". It's called stretching the truth.
Battlefield V sold 7.3 million copies. Far Cry 5 was the best selling game in the franchise.
These companies are doing insanely great. But it's never enough. If you grew 600% last year you better grow 700% this year.
It's a symptom of a larger structural problems with our economy. Like Payless Shoes and Toys R US. It's why we're about to go into a (completely avoidable) recession...
and the patent looks like another example of stringing existing tech together for it's exact intended purpose. Similar to "one click shopping". It's just computers doing computer stuf. e.g. I think it would fail any test of novelty or newness.
from a company with a history of not paying taxes.
The expected outcome, based on prior experience, is that Amazon would have pocketed their subsidies and then when they dried up left.
This isn't Job Creation, it's Job Extortion.
Nice right wing talking points ya got there, BTW. Even worked in some AOC there even though she had nothing to do with it except personally opposing the deal. Do you work for a right wing think tank or just parrot everything they tell you to for free?
The anti-vaxxers are loud but having them on the Internet means they have access to the truth. For example, google "Are vaccines safe" and you'll find several pages of pro-vaccine literature. Same with "Do vaccines cause autism".
Also, the Internet means that the next generation is going to grow up in a world where the default is having lots of information. That generation is about to hit the workforce in mass in about 2-5 years (give or take). Same for voting.
hell, you said so in the first paragraph. The Gov't of NYC was ready to bend over backwards. Excuse me, let me rephrase that, they were ready to bend the taxpayer over backwards.
The NYC taxpayers, OTOH, took exception with what amounted to handing Amazon $3 billion dollars in return for some jobs that may or may not materialize and that, even if they did, might end up going to folks brought in from out of state. They're the ones that shut down the deal by loudly protesting and making it clear that if their "leaders" went ahead with the giveaway there'd be a blood bath at the polls next election.
Like I said on the last NYC Amazon thread, Bully for them. It's high time we start standing up to these corporate A-holes and taking our country back from them.
the party of small government.
Also, Kansas, like most of the flyover states, is facing an economic crisis because they've slashed taxes so much companies don't want to set up shop there and college grads leave first chance they get. I suppose crap like this though is better than actually trying to solve those problems. Beats the hell out of trying to convince the folks who bankrolled your campaign that their taxes need to go up.
would have kept us from getting to the moon or even launching satellites.
The Green New Deal as it stands is a non binding resolution. It's there to get the ball rolling. Step out of the Fox News bubble and you'll learn that
That said, we're going to have to go to renewables at some point. And unless you're a climate change denier then it's either going to be soon or we're gonna have famine and war from the disruption to our food supply.
More immediately Automation is coming for about 20% of the jobs in the next 20 years. That's an optimistic outlook. Again, we either find something for all those out of work coal miners, truck drivers and cashiers to do or they'll do the same thing large, abandoned populations have done for centuries: find somebody to organize them into a mob, then an army, and then come and kill you and take your stuff.
Sure, a lot of them will die, but I seem to remember somebody telling them "What have you got to lose?"...
I'm saying that the left actively suppress and argues with their anti-vaxxers. The right actively encourages them. Again, could you imagine the Democrats running an anti-vaxxer candidate for president? Could you imagine that candidate _winning_?
Anti-vaxxers aren't woefully ignorant, they're _willfully_ ignorant. I think that's a huge part of the problem. It's the same as flat earthers and cultists in general. There's a community there that feels like they're under siege. Folks like that accept all comers. That means if you're the kind of kook that gets kicked out of most communities you're still welcome.
Trump questions vaccines because that got him in with that community with very little effort and virtually no cost. Trump's modus operandi is to say everything, see what he gets away with, and drop anything that doesn't go over well and act like he never said it. Folks forget that Trump is very, very well educated. He's rich, after all. Now, he sucks at everything he does, but that's not stupidity per-se. Stupidity is the complete inability to process information beyond a certain level. Trump's not incapable, he's unwilling because, thanks to his dad's money, he doesn't have to.
Bottom line, to the right wing the anti-vaxxers are useful idiots. To the left they're unfortunate fools to be pitied and educated so they don't kill themselves or others.
but the bulk of the left wing will call them out. And the closest thing the left has to an establishment (the late night talk shows and maybe these guys) call the anti-vax crowd out all the time.
The right wing, by comparison, elected an anti-vaxxer to the highest office of the land. I'd say GP is correct here.
The difference is left tries to reason with our kooks. The right is using them to achieve other political ends.
Hell, if I want to take it further that kind of "ends justifies the means" is why the right wing in America can welcome both the anti-Semitic white supremacists with Trump's "Both sides are bad" comment while also being staunch supporters of Israel.
The right has goals rather than principals. Makes them strong, but it also means they let a lot of fucked up shit slide that the left doesn't.
don't give them any ideas.
they don't arrest them until they bother folks well above their social class. They're not enforcing the law, they're enforcing a twisted social order. That's why poor folk don't take kindly to the cops. They're not there to serve and protect. They're there to oppress and contain.
And no I'm not a "Fuck the Police" type. They're a product of the system. If nobody calls out the system's bullshit nothing changes.
We've got the pain ray now. Google it. We could keep him in unending agony for years, stopping only to make sure his heart doesn't give out.
Torture isn't a slippery slope, It's the God damn K5. Once you start down that path you've devalued human life on such a fundamental level that anything is possible. Don't let rage blind you.
the folks responsible for the Flint, Mi water crisis did it to skim money off the top of the local water utility. They gave their friends a contract they had no business doing.
/. you might not know that.
What I'm saying is, he's not necessarily a psycho, he might just be an opportunist. i.e. this was a money making operation and he figured a relatively harmless one. Annoying as hell, but harmless. Now, we know that swat teams tend to show up to these kind of things and then shoot the place up. But if you haven't been reading
In other words, he's not necessarily a complete psycho, just an asshole out for a quick buck. Add a bad economy to the mix and you could see where a guy might not have a lot of sympathy for society at large.
That said, I'd rather leave it to a professional to determine if he's an actual, clinical psychopath and whether he could be cured or not. And either way I am _not_ a psychopath and so would prefer we find a way to make him harmless with the minimal amount of harm. Naive? Maybe. But then again I'm a humanist.
and we're way past envy. 32,000 Americans will die of treatable illnesses this year. A decade ago it was 45k but the ACA slowed it down.
We got that because people banded together against the insurance companies. It's the same for wages. I can break a stick. Bind a hundred of them and I can't break it anymore. Ancient fucking China figured that out. Why the hell can't you? They're gonna eat you alive.
the Screen actors guild has for decades insured actors get paid for work. Yeah, everybody points to Tom Cruise's big paydays and forgets all the smaller productions out there.
And don't forget all the blue collar folks who make movies happen. Sets don't build themselves. I know guys who did that work and they wouldn't trade their Union for anything.
As for Income inequity, their Union got them better pay. If the boss makes 100,000,000,000/yr and your making $100,000 yeah, income inequality is pretty bad there. But your Union (and you too, don't forget, the Union is Yout!) got you that $100k. They'd pay you $20k if they could get a way with it and without a Union to negotiate they would.
I think I finally see the problem though (if I may go a bit off topic). People have stopped thinking of themselves as "Union" and started thinking of a Union as a third party negotiator you just happen to hire. Folks forgot what it is to actually _belong_ to a Union. Now I wonder who put that idea into their heads
If you don't maintain a thing it breaks down. What did you expect? Try skipping your cars oil changes for 40 years and let me know how that turns out for you. And do that while somebody is putting sugar in your tank.
We need to start passing pro-Union laws to protect American's collective bargaining rights again. Eliminating "right to work" (my God the right wing is good at marketing) laws is a good start. Also we need a ton of new laws banning companies from punishing workers for Unionizing. And anti Union busting laws too.