[-] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

Thats what I was asking, will there be laws to ensure a raise in wages? What are those actual policies being proposed? Is the FCC going to enforce it? The trump FCC is gonna do it or what happens when the next republican president happens?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

so the company will keep all its employees it requires

Is that not the case now? Companies only have the staff the require at any time, no? So if hours get cut, they cut staff, no? I'm all for reducing work weeks to 4 days, it honestly won't bother me even if I take a pay cut, I make enough right now so a pay cut won't hurt me. I'm just wondering how in the world is my employer going to feel incentivized to pay me more an hour to work fewer hours. Let's say I make $100/hour (I don't). I work 40 hours a week. $4000 a week, cool. Now a law happens: I can only work 32 hours for full time and more than that is overtime. I'm still making $100/hr, no? Okay, $3200 a week. That's fine and dandy if you make that much, but I'm just wondering how that helps people who make minimum wage and whatnot. They can just keep working 5 days, overtime now, to keep up their bills while I, a person who makes more than them, get to enjoy the sweat off of their back on my off day?

This already happens with weekends: poor people work them, not the rich. It's not a zero sum thing, but I'd absolutely prefer a solid UBI plan than a 32 hour work week. With a UBI, a 32 hour work week can just happen naturally as people work less. Either way, I'm just have way more questions with a 32 hour work week than a UBI, and a UBI can get much better support than a 4 day work week honestly.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

I think about how much the planet is heating up because people like me are a little too lazy to be competent. I am glad my nieces and nephews get to pay our price we are raising every day on their behalf, to improve their world supposedly with our extra productivity, right?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

how does a law force companies to scale wages instead of firing? At-will employment is a thing. How does a law also retroactively make all at-will employment subject to investigation if they dont scale wages and fire instead? What laws around the world accomodate this kind of situation?

Lots of people advocate for things that have unforseen consequences. Its not impossible for that to happen, no?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

we upgraded to 8 from 5 at my first job in 2014

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To anyone who supports capitalism or otherwise opposes socialism:

Do you support the idea that one man can accumulate enough wealth to own all land of this Earth, making everyone born in his empire under his rule as long as he can kill to defend it? What prevents capitalism from accomplishing this in law? What law exists that limits the borders of nations?

Why, then, must we endure a system where a single man owning the Earth and enslave it is a feature, not a bug?

https://dice.camp/@sean/114698774200264413

I just wanna know what people think. Why must this be maintained? Why is any opposition to capping wealth just the end of the world when it probably would save it, just logically thinking it through?

[-] [email protected] 52 points 3 months ago

It's the minority report wtf

[-] [email protected] 37 points 3 months ago

Tariffs apply when they arrive at port, not when you order. Yours might not ever show up because if they don't pay the tariffs by EOD after arriving at port they get destroyed.

[-] [email protected] 65 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Yall just use Krita if you want a photoshop replacement on Linux and then stop complaining about gimp please. Krita draws circles exactly like photoshop please just use Krita and leave the gimp people alone

[-] [email protected] 43 points 3 months ago

"I get to have parental leave, but the poor don't!"

Glad it was a bipartisan showing of the rich at least

[-] [email protected] 49 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Cyberpunk corporate wars becoming reality.

You laugh but it just enables private militaries aka private police

[-] [email protected] 32 points 5 months ago

Real anti capitalists learn Esperanto

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