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I think so, absolutely. Consider how some people suggest reading 1984 or Brave New World to understand totalitarian societies, or how people suggest various reading science fiction or fantasy as a way of understanding some issue. What the quote describes is the empathy crowd's version of that.

Assuming everything else is a frictionless void, Company A is a better deal compensation-wise, so that's where I'd go.

Goldman Sachs?

Sure, sensible. In the case of the ad industry, I don't appreciate the people who work there in particular, and I have a desire to see those businesses driven from the face of the Earth.

Why else would you?

Your solution is to further overload the police and prison systems?

If we as humans went bankrupt, it was when we decided to start having the government police what substances people can and cannot use.

The opioid crisis is out of control. Even mussels are ODing.

I think it's a bit of both.

American society indoctrinates people with the negative aspects of labor unions. They're run by radicals or the Mafia, they have rules which limit innovation, hold back talented individuals, sanction goldbricking, and on and on. The pro-union side of things is not often promoted in the mainstream.

When the pro-union side of the story is promoted, it's usually in a context where a company was doing something extremely bad to extremely vulnerable people. It's a tough sell to convince an engineer that they're in the same position as an early 20th century lumberjack or coal miner.

I've known people in tech who think of themselves as self-made people and so they further don't like the idea of collective bargaining on a philosophical level.

Thanks for posting this, I've been looking for something like spidr.today for a while.

Hey, let's be fair. Sometimes they're resentful books about the upper class, by the middle class.

"Literary fiction" is a category used in the publishing world to contrast "genre fiction". A publisher would consider Harry Potter genre fiction of some kind, whether in fantasy or young adult. I think it would be quite strange if it were included in the survey.

It seems much more likely based on what?

The founders made a system which required landed property to vote. "They didn't require photo IDs" is ridiculous.

I think a janitor has some advantages going for him which are pretty rare in our thing, as well as fewer issues overall.

For example, the janitor probably has concrete and relatively unchanging definitions of success in his work. His job has tangible effects every day on those he provides his service to. There aren't many janitorial meetings. He probably doesn't have to massage the ego of his boss. To my knowledge, there are no Sanitation Reviews where some coworker will criticize him for not following the One True Sanitation Style or the latest fad in Toilet Driven Development. His profession is not constantly put in the critical spotlight by the media as a front line in the culture wars. There's no such phrase as "janitor bro" which people use to stereotype and demean them.

Focusing just on "I make $X, they make $X/4, how can I complain" downplays a lot of conditions which can make some people in this line of work very bitter about it.

I am also interested in the answer to this question.

Thanks to any maintainers who read this. You do important work.

I don't want people who produce videos like that to continue to make videos. I want them to go out of business.

So, good preparation for how interviews work, then?

I don't think people in an unacceptable situation 'accept' it. With your example of unacceptable workplaces, they express their resentment in other ways. Maybe they find the minimum they can produce without being disciplined and only do that much. Maybe they spread malicious gossip at the office. Maybe they go home and abuse their spouse or children. Maybe they become alcoholics, or political extremists, or religious fanatics. Maybe they become depressed and commit suicide. The world offers plenty of examples. People trapped in situations they find unacceptable don't suffer in silence; they become pathological, dangerous people.

The issues of unacceptable mass surveillance can and will, eventually, cause some kind of response by people who don't accept it. If there are a lot of those people, I doubt the response will be pretty.

So in your estimation, Nazi hate is so powerful that even the example of World War 2 and seventy years of progress in racial equality was not enough to inoculate the vast majority of the people of the United States against it -- but passing a law against saying it in public will?

Who decides who is uneducated?

What are the parameters for "bad"?