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Olgratin_Magmatoe @ Olgratin_Magmatoe @lemmy.world Posts 3Comments 869Joined 2 yr. ago
Olgratin_Magmatoe @ Olgratin_Magmatoe @lemmy.world
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I make 6 figures and work two jobs. I ain't a leech, or crying.
You on the other hand should quit licking the boot, and stop being a class traitor. And learning how to support your claims with evidence wouldn't hurt either.
I still need to catch up on the latest season(s?) of lower decks. And given the fact that lower decks is a comedy, and borderline non-canon, I'd take that with a giant grain of salt.
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Statistics are used by propagandists.
And what evidence have you brought to the table? Fucking nothing.
At least I brought scientific papers.
Union jobs SUCK for good workers.
The data betrays your conclusion.
https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w27720/w27720.pdf
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0167268122003249
There’s nothing stopping unions from allowing your boss to pay you minimum while they take ‘dues’ from you.
Unions aren't mandatory. There is no taking. Given such a fundamental lack of understanding on that front really makes me doubt your story.
Nothing is stopping unions from being as corrupt as employers.
Yes there is, there's the union elections and the consent required for participation.
Thank you, very well explained with sources. Seriously you went deep into the comments to explain it to me and I appreciate that.
Of course, no problem.
I just selfishly want to buy a home that’s bigger than the shitty one I rent so we can move my wife’s elderly mother in with us.
I'm in a similar position, so I feel you.
They lead to companies being forced to keep horrible employees that cost them money
I don't care.
and pay them more than they’d otherwise need to.
Good, that's the fucking point.
You could have negotiated better pay for yourself
You can't, which is why unions have higher pay.
Sick time shouldn’t be a thing. No one should be incentivized to call in sick, and that costs the company money
Are you a troll, or are you genuinely this backwards?
Posting a bunch of union propaganda doesn’t change the fact that they only serve themselves.
My dude, this is all of the sources showing that they're better jobs. It's the government, corporate media, scientific research, all coming to the same conclusion. It ain't propaganda.
What do you mean about the housing market? Prices are insane I agree, but do you think bubble go pop? That would be great for everyone, which doesn’t fit the tone of the rest of your comment.
If/when it pops, it's going to do so like a pimple, with puss, bacteria, gross warm goop.
The rich will buy up even more of the housing, (eventually) push out even more first time buyers, and people will lose their jobs.
https://jbrec.com/insights/charting-a-22-year-roller-coaster-of-investor-activity/
The share of homes owned by investors increased after the 2008 crash, and has been increasing since. Another bubble burst will be the same. Granted, the share of first time home buyers also increased, but it didn't last, and it came at the cost of other people losing their homes.
And we're now seeing reality companies turn into megacorps like they haven't before, with more and more properties each. They should not have that level of control over the market, and it would only increase (dark gray and blue sections on that graph).
Unions only help themselves.
That's utter bullshit.
https://www.afscme.org/blog/the-union-difference-in-wages-18-higher-pay-if-you-belong-to-a-union
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/27/labor-unions-winning-better-pay-hours.html
https://www.nber.org/digest/digestsep18/new-evidence-unions-raise-wages-less-skilled-workers
https://www.axios.com/2024/03/20/union-workers-wealth-comparison-pay-difference
https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/general/labortaskforce/docs/WORK-fs-DOL-Unions-v6.pdf
https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2021/article/employee-access-to-sick-leave.htm
They lead to higher wages, job security, better benefits, and better PTO/sick days. In every respect, in general, a union job is better for the worker than a non union job.
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Give it a decade or two, when the effects of climate change really start fucking people over, they lose their jobs/housing/food, that's when shit will hit the fan. We're still only at the beginning of the effect, and when they really hit it will put the squeeze on everything. The current system is cracking under its own weight.
And the housing market is just a ticking time bomb.
I gotcha
Resentment for Thompson was widespread at the company, the employee said, citing an internal company announcement about his death that only garnered 28 comments despite being seen by 16,000 employees.
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/unitedhealthcare-tells-employees
Negotiation almost de facto requires group effort, or a union. The only time negotiation works outside of that is edge cases.
That simplifies just about any economic system, which takes a lot of the complicated stuff out of government and class hierarchies.
Right, but they very clearly don't get all of their food out of a replicator, nor do they use the holodeck for things like hair cuts. There is still people who serve as cooks, waitresses, barbers, etc despite the technology being there to not need those jobs.
And that's what I want explored in more depth.
I’m a casual Trekkie, but I don’t recall much detail about the Federation’s or Earth’s government structure. Do people still vote? Is it a benevolent military dictatorship? Who knows? And who cares?
I've been dipping my toe in the books. At least in the first book for PIC, The Last Best Hope, they very clearly still have political struggles for power, corruption, tribalism, and voting. It ain't a dictatorship, but the goals and views of the government leaders aren't wholey benevolent.
A particularly good example was the Federation council member Olivia Quest. She's a rep from a border planet, whos been facing some issues with the romulan star going supernova, and all the immigrants that are mayhaps being sent their way. So she raises a big stink over any and all help towards the romulans. It's self serving, selfish, and tribalism, but she was voted in and she wasn't alone.
All of this is very familiar to real life. But it's the exact kind of details I want, but on one of the shows. They made it interesting in the books, they could just as easily make it interesting in the show.
That’s the very core of the entire franchise and I’m fine leaving it that way, unscrutinized, since it clearly doesn’t hold up to scrutiny.
Maybe the tech of replicators/transporters/holodecks should be left unscrutinized, because ultimately it relies on technobable for it to be compatible with a suspension of disbelief. But I don't think the same goes for the societal structures of the federation. It worked in the Last Best Hope, I think it could work on the screen.
They need to actually give a full look into the economics of the federation. Yeah, it's space communism. But I want more specifics.
All the more reason that internet archives are important.
No, we do not need to tolerate everyone, because everyone includes neo nazis. We should not tolerate neo nazis. The same goes for any other group that intends to act, or acts to harm others. That includes CEOs who make a buck off of intentionally keeping people ill, dying, or dead for the sake of their company's bottom line.
The only way to solve the paradox of intolerance is to not tolerate that shit.
"Let's open the closet to see how many people are celebrating this CEO getting shot, surely it can't be that many"
The closet in question: