just_change_it @ just_change_it @lemmy.world

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Amazon Prime hasn't been good for years. There's no reason to pay for it.

If amazon was smart they would have not included their streaming service in their free shipping subscription but now it just feels like an expensive bloated product with minimal value.

if that happens, she’s gone, and they lose someone with almost 19 years of experience who literally writes their training manuals on how to do what she does, lol.

She openly told her boss that if they tell her to come into the office she will willingly quit the job and forfeit unemployment so they can downsize that headcount and spread around the work to other employees?

Gotta play 3D chess, don't show them your hand. They now have an easy way to fire her on demand without cause and without having a mark on their employment numbers.

Have to go with the angle of: if you make me move you need to pay my relocation costs because you have asked me to move. After all, this isn't new and they have known your home address for 10 years. Make them cover the increased cost or they get to pay unemployment for laying you off. That's the only real angle you probably have anyway that gives them a cost.

When you call for violent threats you give ammo to the very groups that you wish to inflict harm upon for the masses to side with them

Accountability for CEO actions needs to be done financially. It needs to first and foremost affect shareholders - because that's the only point for a public company to exist - and then after that it needs to personally penalize CEOs.

If you just target the figurehead of a company the owners won't really be affected. You need to get them where it REALLY hurts - in the wallet. Only then will the dynamic change.

When you're doing 1099 work you end up paying for your own health insurance and a little bit more in income taxes. The problem with construction contractor work is that it destroys your body over time. Definitely have seen master electricians, plumbers et al pull 150k+++ for many years in Mass.

People who do not agree with you are bots?

Great way to dehumanize the opinion of others I guess.

I haven't had the 1 box per month limit pop up for me, even when my wife and I both get sick.

Purchase limit in Massachusetts is 9 grams per month and 3.6 grams per day. A single pill is 30mg so you'd need 300 pills to reach that.

An adult dose is 12 pills per day if you take 2 every 4 hours. You can take a full dose for 25 days a month before hitting that limit.

I just go to the pharmacy counter because i'm an adult. No replacement for pseudo out there that i've seen in folk remedies. Do like honey and limon water for throat stuff though.

Per YFA:

small raises in the minimum wage lead to slower wage growth for low-wage workers

minimum wage reduces job growth over a period of several years with the effects being strongest for younger workers and for those in industries with a higher proportion of low-wage-workers.

Other research shows less clear results of increasing the minimum wage as an antipoverty tool in disadvantaged neighborhoods and a decrease of worker hours and increase in capital investment following minimum wage increases

Just raise the wages! surely less hours available, slower job growth and slower wage growth is the best way.

I'm in Massachusetts and practically nobody actually gets paid the state minimum wage. Ice cream scoopers were making 16-18/hr+ before we had $15/hr minimum wage. I was making 10 back when our min was 8 as a cashier.

A National minimum wage hike is going to encourage job outsourcing. It's already possible to pay someone $900/mo in Chile who speaks fluent English to recruit tech people. (That's $5.19/hr.) Do you think lower tier professional jobs are going to increase, stay the same, or shrink in the US?

How do you think the rising cost of american labor will affect the import/export balance?

If you want to fix our problems start with insurance and pharma and continue on with the finance sector. Only by crushing those huge-profit-leeching industries by having similar regulations to what exists overseas will you bring down the high wage jobs and reduce the disparity.

Health insurance is only expensive because drugs have no standardized national pricing (like most of the world does.) Our health insurance is the highest in the world despite not providing the highest standard of care and paying not so great compared to single payer countries.

Then comes insurance... some of the highest paying roles out there are in big insurance companies. I've seen IT helpdesk roles advertised in Boston for 170k+ for executive support roles because insurance is such a glut with profit - they cannot ever lose. Medical insurance going single payer is an obvious thing but other insurances suffer other problems like maximum profit %s being regulation encouraging insurance companies to up gross price and cost to make an end result profit of X% based on the gross. They want to make more money and the only way is to raise prices and expenses.

It's like the nursing home problem. They are designed to never make any actual money but they seem to pay their external company cleaning crew $1000/hr to clean and they are informed about inspections ahead of time so they can adjust staffing to appear appropriate. It's all a game to make it look like their non-profit is really not making a profit for the owners but all the associated business to business supports they have also happen to be owned by the same owners as the nonprofit and those businesses are private and make a killing.

I'm not going to go into the finance side. I know i've already lost everybody.

Anyway, I know i'll just get downvotes because "I WANT MORE MONEY" but the problems we have require a lot of big losers to reverse the hoarding of wealth by the wealthy and bring it down, and honestly a lot of the more well-to-do upper middle class would be greatly affected - it'll never happen.

Minimum wage should be closer to $100/hr then in Boston. I can't imagine anything less than 200k supporting a family with the white picket house, a retirement plan, and a commute that isn't 2+ hours each way.

Definitely gonna quit my professional job to be a Barista at that point though. Way more fun.

In Massachusetts IT wages have stagnated for 12 years. Minimum wage has doubled. Rent has gone up 2.3x or so. Housing prices have just about doubled but it depends on location.

Junior IT people now make a couple bucks more than minimum wage. My wife was hiring for a couple of positions and the pay was around 42k. I still don't understand how that works as a salary in 2023 in Boston.

This guy just has loose lips. This isn't the only one with a big pile of money willing to do anything to get a bigger share. Others are just a lot quieter.

Based on the number of downvotes of people critical here, the overwhelming majority here must make minimum wage.

So when you get your bachelors degree and get your first job making $25 an hour... why did you go to college and rack up tens of thousands of dollars in debt again?

What are we doing to help people build enough wealth to own a home? because minimum wage is never going to afford it, even if it you make it $50/hr by 2030.

Just in time for the pharma companies to make $130/dose or whatever insane number they have decided to make up in the USA. It's never been better to be an investor in businesses making vaccines.

Billions in public grants for research and then we get to pay for the results for something that benefits the greater good, again. You'd think when you need x billion doses the price wouldn't be 130 x billions, but instead $1.25 x billions.

Remember that time it came out the biggest 3 software firms had an agreement not to poach talent from each other, keeping wages artificially low?

Look at the line HR ALWAYS uses in salary negotiations. "We pay market rates"

The market rates never go up above market, because that would disrupt the same low wages they currently pay. Unless your role is indispensible in bringing in business (connections to other people who control market share or otherwise generate sales) your wage will consistently drop. The high earners are all commission and perfomance based.

"Worker" professionals like IT, mid-low tier HR, Finance, etc all get paid the same year after year at rates that rise way lower than inflation. It's common to see highly compensated individuals who make the same 1 million dollar salary year after year but their bonuses are a percentage of performance which is way above and beyond that base salary.

Bonus %s are always bigger the higher you go up in an org based on performance too, even for middle management. Why would that be? 10% of 100k is only 10k, but 50% of 500k is 250k. Screwed both ways per usual.

By both sides I was talking about the two principal political parties. Sure some amount may not be corrupt but the end result is that pro-big money policies reign supreme.

It's hard to talk about any other possible spectrum of theoretical politics because only the two parties really make an impact, you have to look at it collectively. State and Federal legislature has the exact same problems but on different scales.

It's all about looking at it objectively, not idealistically. Ideals aren't the real world. Humans are corrupt, all of us. The level of corruption varies but generally is proportional to the amount of authority we are given to make decisions with financial impacts.

Nah, he just donated 40B to the former ownership. Keeping the big bucks in the hands of the ultra wealthy.

I agree the billionaire class and corporatocracy are the common enemy, but conservatives defend them loyally.

Can you honestly say the wealthy of this nation only play on one party line? I honestly think both sides are just as bad. The political games mostly distract you from the big wins of the ultra-wealthy. When regulation flip flops all the time the winners are in the businesses who effectively write the laws that politicians peddle. It's rare there are experts writing laws that get passed who are not compensated by the very industry they are crafting the laws to regulate.

I learned a lot about public policy in college and what you see in the news isn't generally the key points, it's just whatever outrage fuel they can put on the fire for their respective audience. Regulation and loopholes are rarely easily understood things, it's all for people who understand the complexities of tax code and legalese which isn't most people.

I hated NMS so I think starfield is kind of better but not at all in any sense of a space sim / 4x aspect. Space is mostly just a minigame with arcadey feel in a not great way imo.

It's a bethesda RPG first and foremost and honestly it plays mostly like a fallout 4 total conversion mod. Instead of a map (there are none) you just get a bunch of fast travel points. Planets have 1-3ish "biomes" which are individual rng maps with POIs which are very far apart and often meaningless.

I really loathe the equipment system in Starfield. Attachments require very specific resources and if you have two identical guns side by side, one with an extended magazine and one with a reflex scope there is absolutely NO way to combine those attachments or weapons in any way. They are always unique. Plus as you level up the same weapons get new prefixes that are simply higher damage versions of the same thing, same ammo and everything.

Oh and for fun when you mod a weapon to be full auto it loses ~60% of it's per hit damage because DPS is the only stat they balanced on. Semi-automatic weapons and weapon mods are the only way to reasonably play. There isn't much in the way of fully automatic skill tree items that make up for the huge ammo costs of fully automatic weapons and frequent reload times either- after all that 80 round mag simply does 3 times the damage when your weapon is semi auto instead of fully auto.

Just too much carbon copy crap for me. I wanted innovation and I got a fallout mod.

Okay Satan, do you really want another civil war? I don't. I don't want to see my friends and loved ones die because of a bunch of political bullshit fueled by greed, power and hate.

I wouldn't even be in favor of whatever government won on either side. Our nation's values are rotten to the core much like what seems to be the entirety of the world's governments, corporations and any other significantly sized organization.

The internet just seems to be fueling more vitriol than ever. We could try coming together and fighting the establishment with shared common sense bipartisan goals while keeping the bullshit out of it but then there's no free lunch for the people with all the money.

macOS search is so much better than Windows search it’s not even remotely close.

Yeah but does macOS search use it's own search engine to prop up user hit metrics and generate more ad revenue for Apple? I don't think so. Score 1 Microsoft, our corporate tyrant.