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the first rule of negotiation is to set your initial ask high

Cuomo loves half-measures and taking credit for not doing much of anything.

There's no force of law behind this order.

Earlier this week he announced "mortgage relief," but its means-tested and difficult to actually navigate. It won't help.

A year or 2 ago he rolled out his "free college for every new yorker" plan. It benefits about 10% of the population.

Cuomo's only skill is talking a big game. He's exactly as bad as most other neolibs.

Sounds like labor organizing, and yes, its the best way to ensure you say some say in what your work-life looks like.

They do not. Those sentences are about a different water reclamation facility facing different circumstances. You should amend your comment.

I think you vastly overestimate the power of the r/childfree subreddit as a voting bloc

I imagine wage disparity b/t men and women is part of it: I'd bet more men drive luxury cars than women b/c more men than women are paid enough to afford them.

great, dont come to them!

National Affairs is a publication of the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank. It's important to keep in mind their ideology when reading anything they publish.

This is totally unhinged.

yeah they could just not work instead!

To the extent that my children depend on me to eat, yes, its bad for their livelihood.

I'm saying that technology is _bad_. I'm saying that losing your job is bad, and if your boss replacing you with a machine is what causes that you're right to be upset.

US agriculture is also heavily subsidized

Losing your job to automation is bad for your livelihood. It has been since we started automating things.

There is an enormous body of law in the US that incentivizes a top-down corporate business structure and disincentives a co-op business structure.

This story fits into a larger context of wealthy investors buying up media properties and gutting their staff. It's extra relevant b/c Bloomberg is outrageously wealthy and running for president.

If your city is dense enough that you live within walking/bus distance of your work and basic necessities (groceries, etc) you dont need to have every single person own a car. The cars are a big part of the problem and as long as we keep building to accomodate them and not people things aren't going to improve

You dont need NYC levels of density to achieve big improvements though. You just can't have a "city" full of single-family homes like you do in places like San Francisco.

I'd also posit that the culture changes follow, and are directed by, the density. That's my speculation though.

That is, unfortunately, how businesses are organized under capitalism.

I didn't realize we were all on facebook's board of directors.

Youre of course right. A slight edit to the headline would make this more inclusive.

"women's minds" => "the mind"

> articles about politics that are neutral

That literally isn't a possibility.

I'm on board with sweeping changes, but most US cities aren't built densely enough to take advantage of public transit even if we do build it.

It's not just a matter of building more transit (which we should be doing!). We have to move people back into urban cores and out of sparsely populated suburbs.

I don't think you disagree. If new roads make driving more convenient, doesn't it stand to reason that building new roads also increases the number of miles driven?

I've been with my partner over 9 years and we aren't married. I'd consider ours a "successful" relationship.

>Collective bargaining means, valuing them about the same (a common agreement means the same outcome for all?)

This is a misconception spread by capital to make you think unions are going to hurt you.

The media company I work for recently unionized. I assure you the junior staff still makes less money than the senior staff. What the union bargaining got wasn't flat wages. What it got was a higher wage floor for new hires, better PTO, more flexible working hours, and a consistent yearly raise/compensation schedule, things like that. No senior employee's work is devalued.

The tradeoff isn't between senior and junior workers. It's between workers and owners.

No, it isn't true.

Surely you don't suggest that this is a uniquely french behavior?

yep

As it should. My point is that there are also wealthy families(and companies) in NY/Houston/DC/etc that know that climate change will cause wide-scale human suffering but purposefully spread misinformation and sow doubt because addressing that problem would cut into their wealth.

There are an awful lot of educated people whose livelihoods depends on us not taking those steps. That's why disinformation and denialist propaganda like this study get funded.

Leaving those lies unchallenged would be journalistic malpractice.