I wonder what percentage of otherwise very liberal Amazon devs read sentences like "The company for years successfully fought off labor organizing efforts in the U.S." and come away thinking "we're definitely the good guys."
Who knows, maybe they'll make Amazon to allow unmetered bathroom breaks one day.
It literally is considered time off task (TOT) when you stop for a restroom break outside of your scheduled break times.
There is always the option for people with increased medical restroom needs to seek specific accommodations to essentially excuse the TOT for their needs.
Very good point! I did not think of this at all. Perhaps the collapse of the Soviet Union discredited the planned economy as means of social equalization and they never quite regained their footing.
If I had to analyze the root cause of it though, I'd say the proximate cause really is Cultural Hegemony. Pretty much every piece of media and every interaction you have assumes liberal economics so much that it is very hard to even realize that you are working within that framework. An unknown known, kinda.
In a universe where public social programs are impossible; I find many of these corporatist-redistributionist arguments sort of interesting. But in this one; I really do think we should tax corporations more and fund State programs.
If everyone has medicare for all and eviction protections; do we still care whether amazon can fire a worker from a warehouse?
I think MFA is not entirely antithetical to the right ideology and could be over time incorporated - it improves labor mobility which is in line with core right values (freedom of association and participation provides better free market outcomes and more self-sufficiency). It’s just at any point in time it’s too convenient to crap on it for cheap points. A local optimum of negative variety.
This process was, ironically, only made possible by the destruction of unions which were the most important leftist institution.
The negotiating power of unions is another.
Part of the reason may be that the divide between Democrats and Republicans is much wider on those issues vs labor issues.
It's all theater.
Cancelling student debt will help a shit tonne more workers.
He has a section on his campaign website addressing Union specifics:
https://joebiden.com/empowerworkers/
Well see what he can actually does, but with the senate in democrat hands, the sky is the limit.
I will feel terrible if that ever happens for folks that were smart with money and didn't incur tons of debt. It's gonna be a real bummer when you learn that you paid off your educational debt or never had any and that now you get to pay off debt of others that made bad decisions.
I agree emotionally. But that's life, if you actually believe in education you can only really pay if forwards...
"bad decisions"
Imagine thinking that earning a degree was a "bad decision".
The Republican Party is for people whose primary concern is one of a theocratic judiciary, paying less taxes if you make more than $400k/yr, white nationalism, extractive industries, military contractors, unrestricted access to any/all classes of firearms.
In both of those groups there are large pro-business, anti-labor contingents.
Hopefully one day we will move to ranked choice voting and other mechanisms that allow 3rd parties to compete and we can have more meaningful and direct connections between parties and specific policies instead of these two loose coalitions.
Also, white nationalism is only embraced by a small percentage of the party. It's not really part of their platform, it's just what the loudest shouters in the party want.
(Disclaimer: I do not identify as repbulican, but if this is your best faith effort to define their platform, you lack empathy for them which means you'll never understand even their lucid ideas. Granted, many of their ideas are vague and not lucid.)
I'm not saying that all Republicans are white nationalist and anti-abortion but I haven't met a Republican whose primary political concern wasn't one of the issues I listed.
And everybody I've met whose primary issue is one of those that I listed has been Republican.
The vast majority of my extended family, whom I love, is Republican. There isn't some great mystery to understanding their political motivations.
Did I miss a Republican Party coalition from my list?
But this is also I reason why I think ranked-choice voting is so compelling. I've met Republicans who essentially only vote Republican because they want to defend their 2nd amendment right but otherwise would be much more likely to support left-wing economic causes. But the way policies are bundled in our two parties they are forced to vote according to their primary concern.
The last family gathering we all had together, pre-covid thanksgiving, they all spent much of the time telling me how I had to "be afraid" of Mexicans and Arabs for a variety of reasons. I'm kind of dumb in social situations and kind of polite so I just stood there entirely unsure how I should even respond to that.
have I talked to a single republican? I've talked to several that I'd known all my life, who all came out with the race baiting stuff.
Bernie Sanders and AOC would like a word. Most of their platform is based around supporting the working class.