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VW is doing it [0]

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What does this have to do with billionaire taxes?

Sidenote: taxis in Germany are typically Mercedes, rarely BMW

Godwin's law in action, this seems like an incredibly bad faith argument. Why not compare it to the NHS or other nationalised industries instead without going straight to shouting nazi...

You mean deregulation? Banks have famously seen less regulations starting in the 1980s

You don't see a difference between an independent carpenter or tow truck company and an uber driver?

Yes

Your boss, HR or whoever is responsible for deciding your salary definitely is a person though.

But why resentment against him and not the company?

I never said they should be compensated the same but saying they are not needed or should not be valued seems plain wrong to me.

NBA players association, actors guild, writers guild etc are famous examples of "rewarding high performing employees"

Kickstarters product is not software though, it's a platform, so support and community management probably does play a fairly substantial role.

That exact same scenario happened to me but it wasn't at a union shop. Seems weird to blame this on unions in general. Dumb rules are dumb rules...

That is a terribly naive perspective on the "free market for labor"

Literally taken from your link.

> Is there a list of demands and laws anywhere they want to impose?

"02) What are the workplace improvements Kickstarter United is seeking?"

> Not a word about the standards of performance or expectations from employees who would want to be part of union.

"Kickstarter United will be made up of all employees in the bargaining unit."

You can only unionise if you struggle?

What exactly is "ruined" about Kickstarter when the employees unionize?

What exactly is so bad about hiring people with good résumés? Tesla hired people from Jaguar, BMW etc. is that nefarious as well?

This still leaves the question whether it's worth it to "setup shop" easily in the UK with a market of ~66m people or the "hard" setting up shop in the EU with ~500m people. You can't just set up in the UK and then operate in the EU, that's the whole point of the EU...

The HPI is a faculty of the public University of Potsdam, it is not a research unit of SAP or anything similar. They have projects with Oracle just as they do with SAP and a ton of other companies.

It's kind of weird to describe CERN as "a company", doesn't quite capture the spirit of it...

What exactly is socialist about this?

I thought this "argument" around welfare queens had its day in the 90s...not the 2020s

That's a rather polemic way of talking about this topic. No one but a strawman actually talks about "free shit" or "no-cost", it is about social distribution of burdens for these extreme cases. Paying a reasonable price for drinkable water through i.e municipal water companies seems to fit your "responsibility" requirement. Paying 25% or more of your _yearly_ income for a medical bill because you had bad luck...not so reasonable in my opinion and has nothing much to do with "responsibility". And let's not pretend it is about no costs or free things, everyone is paying for it through taxes according to their means. Are you seriously suggesting to let someone on disabilities or social security starve to death cause those are essentially your "no-cost food and water" slogans. This notion of "having the government provide" shows the twisted view on government, it's not a separate entity the money comes from society, society is providing, is that such a bad thing for a society?

I'm curious, why shouldn't they?

But "companies" aren't a conscious being by itself, they are made up of or rather steered by high tier executives right?

That is a weird definition of socialism...

Any source on the claim that private news is more accurate than state-controlled ones? Seems like a bold claim if I'm looking at the yellow papers in most countries.

he said good public transport

Singapore has rougly 5.5m inhabitants and 780km^2 compared to the UK 67.5m and 242000km^2, slightly different situation, interstingly both your example are ultra high density, basically city states. Not everyone can be financal hubs for other countries...