Or maybe back then, there was almost no expectation that software devs would spend 60+ hours a week at work, so people who (quite reasonably) want to care for children or parents could do that after working hours.
What social supports do you think were withdrawn since the 70s or 80s?
As a broad description, the manager is probably right, but not every tech-oriented company mistreats women. Sexism need not, and should not, be endemic in the high tech industry or any high tech company.
Yes, it's sick because people like you think we need to make America look like North Korea because gosh darn it, that government makes sure everyone is treated the same.
I'm saying that ranting against Uber or whatever is not going to help those people much, because their problems go deeper than the fact that they are currently desperate for a job. Their lives are more complicated than the reductionist stories that you and others want to tell.
All your caring isn't going to get a damn thing made or a single mouth fed. Put up or shut up. Venezuela's government says it cares more about its people than about markets, and see where that got them.
Right, you're talking about somebody you made up. I prefer my anecdotes to be based in fact, preferably where we can explore the details -- so not done random person whose experience is filtered through a journalist with an obvious agenda.
What is your suggestion? That these people whose alternative is no job take that alternative? That the employers raise prices to support higher wages for their workers, leading to much reduced demand and most of their current workers bring out of work? That the employers start printing money so they can pay more than they take in?
I'm not working for Fiverr, and don't foresee working in a job where piecework makes sense.
Most of the people arguing against these companies show no understanding of the theory of firms, which jobs are not suited to the kind of piecework arrangement at their heart, or the fact that other economic factors are driving a lot of the sob stories.
Back in the 1980s and 1990s, chains like McDonald's we're focusing mostly on low prices, and less on quality and nutrition. Somehow, there are more non-chain and small-chain restaurants now than there were then, at least where I've lived.
And having eaten at the second Five Guys location when it was the best one, I get a kick out of its success.
Except for self-deprecating jokey product names, we sure don't seem to be heading towards a Soylent future.
Nobody is forcing you to buy a computer, and I probably can find a computer assembled by people who care about the product and their conditions. If you think there's a substantial unmet demand for that kind of thing, maybe you or a fellow-traveler should start selling artisanal computers made from sustainably sourced, fair-trade components.
You want to "fix" the parts of human nature that you've been brainwashed to find distasteful. Don't expect the rest of us to jump onto your Marxist bandwagon.
Meanwhile, in the real world, I will probably make my own lunch (a departure from my routine, because reasons), but there are plenty of places near me willing to trade tasty, reasonably nutritious food for either a lot of money or a little, as I wish.
They outright say that they are protecting women from rapists who are pretending to be trans people. Only this has never been a credible threat.
It has never been a credible threat because it was previously presumptively illegal for trans women to use the women's restroom. Now, it could be illegal discrimination to challenge a man who tries to walk into a women's restroom -- we have to wait until some woman is actually assaulted.
If you have two brain cells to put together, please do so.
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Or maybe back then, there was almost no expectation that software devs would spend 60+ hours a week at work, so people who (quite reasonably) want to care for children or parents could do that after working hours.
What social supports do you think were withdrawn since the 70s or 80s?
As a broad description, the manager is probably right, but not every tech-oriented company mistreats women. Sexism need not, and should not, be endemic in the high tech industry or any high tech company.
Wow, the high school sophomores who don't know what "ad hominem" means are out in force today.
Possibly because you have neither empathy, nor sympathy, nor decency.
I'll just leave this here, with the observation that you truly have shown yourself to be an idiot.
Yes, it's sick because people like you think we need to make America look like North Korea because gosh darn it, that government makes sure everyone is treated the same.
I sympathize enough with them that I engage my brain before I engage in virtue-signaling posturing about the eeeebull corporations.
No, that's a personal attack. An ad hominem is something quite different. As I suggested to the other guy, go learn what one is.
Learn what an ad hominem attack is, moron.
I'm saying that ranting against Uber or whatever is not going to help those people much, because their problems go deeper than the fact that they are currently desperate for a job. Their lives are more complicated than the reductionist stories that you and others want to tell.
I'm not working for Fiverr, and I also don't buy from them. Go throw your temper tantrum somewhere else, you hypocrite.
So should it be illegal to offer people shitty jobs? How many people would have these jobs then?
All your caring isn't going to get a damn thing made or a single mouth fed. Put up or shut up. Venezuela's government says it cares more about its people than about markets, and see where that got them.
Found the moron who enjoys ad hominem attacks!
Right, you're talking about somebody you made up. I prefer my anecdotes to be based in fact, preferably where we can explore the details -- so not done random person whose experience is filtered through a journalist with an obvious agenda.
What is your suggestion? That these people whose alternative is no job take that alternative? That the employers raise prices to support higher wages for their workers, leading to much reduced demand and most of their current workers bring out of work? That the employers start printing money so they can pay more than they take in?
I'm not working for Fiverr, and don't foresee working in a job where piecework makes sense.
Most of the people arguing against these companies show no understanding of the theory of firms, which jobs are not suited to the kind of piecework arrangement at their heart, or the fact that other economic factors are driving a lot of the sob stories.
Back in the 1980s and 1990s, chains like McDonald's we're focusing mostly on low prices, and less on quality and nutrition. Somehow, there are more non-chain and small-chain restaurants now than there were then, at least where I've lived.
And having eaten at the second Five Guys location when it was the best one, I get a kick out of its success.
Except for self-deprecating jokey product names, we sure don't seem to be heading towards a Soylent future.
Nobody is forcing you to buy a computer, and I probably can find a computer assembled by people who care about the product and their conditions. If you think there's a substantial unmet demand for that kind of thing, maybe you or a fellow-traveler should start selling artisanal computers made from sustainably sourced, fair-trade components.
You want to "fix" the parts of human nature that you've been brainwashed to find distasteful. Don't expect the rest of us to jump onto your Marxist bandwagon.
Meanwhile, in the real world, I will probably make my own lunch (a departure from my routine, because reasons), but there are plenty of places near me willing to trade tasty, reasonably nutritious food for either a lot of money or a little, as I wish.
You always have the choice to boycott the companies doing this kind of thing, and only buy from the ones you think behave responsibly.
I think it's called Fiverr because you work for an hour and earn a fiver, or something.
This article mostly seems to be about stirring up outrage over the fact that people can choose the terms and hours of their work.
Right. Rust is never accidentally quadratic.
"I'm Goodenough. I'm smart enough, and gosh darn it, people like me!"
It has never been a credible threat because it was previously presumptively illegal for trans women to use the women's restroom. Now, it could be illegal discrimination to challenge a man who tries to walk into a women's restroom -- we have to wait until some woman is actually assaulted.
If you have two brain cells to put together, please do so.