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my question in particular is why aren't all votes considered equal in UN on any matter in general? It's so petty of US, the most powerful empire in the history of planet to put embargo on a tiny island like Cuba.

How is this voting system is fair if US can just go "naah..we don't like it" after everyone else has voted yes?

To be blunt, if reimbursing your employees for better working environment makes your business non-feasible then your business is based on exploiting workers and does not deserve to exist.

I just installed KDE Plasma+Wayland today on mint Linux. Working great so far, although I’m not noticing a large difference in performance, maybe my specs are good and load is light.

It’s funny how people are focused on “deterring china” than fixing problems at home. For a developed country our labor protections are poor, public transport is laughable and universal healthcare system is just non-existent. US has invaded more countries than china ever did. It gets me angry when $800 billions are spent on military(Raytheon/lockheed Martin), Apple is stashing their money horde outside US for avoiding taxes and we ask teachers and poor people in general to just pick up by their bootstraps. China has definitely done bad things but definitely not as much as US. How about we take a page from their rapid infrastructure development and improving quality of life for most citizens rather than dumping money into arms dealers under the disguise of fighting “communism/socialism”.

I think they are motivated by their urge to micromanage and nothing else. It’s a fallacy to think the “great leaders” are infallible. The last couple of years is a proof that these leaders can be as dumb as rocks.

I was being more charitable to Elon by trusting what he said himself. I know the $28k number. Almost 40% of the households with college age kids earn less than 70k before taxes. How many would be able to afford to give a $28k loan to their kids?

Source - https://www.statista.com/statistics/782411/parental-income-o...

Taking a loan is not the same as able to afford it. 40% of the households with college aged kids earn less than 74k. https://www.statista.com/statistics/782411/parental-income-o...

Also it's insane to compare Elon's family with a Journalist. Elon's father invested $200k for 10% in his first venture while half the journalist earn less than 50k. https://www.bls.gov/ooh/media-and-communication/reporters-co...

"having your parents pay for your education is hardly a rare circumstance" - What is your source for this? Why do you think the President wanted to forgive student loan if paying for education was not such a big problem?

Median American household income is $70k before taxes. Do you think this household can afford college tuition and expenses?

Because he said it himself? Why else would anyone come up with such specific source of income? Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20140413112637/https://www.askme...

His dad invested $200k at 10% at a later stage. I'm pretty sure it qualifies as rich daddy. Source: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1211064937004589056

Btw Musk had little to do with the success of X. The revenue of PayPal was merely $61 million at the time Musk was fired as CEO of X.com(later PayPal).

Makes so much sense. What do we even get after working like robot for 30 years? We don't have retirement benefits, we would've barely paid for a house if we could afford one. All this for making the CEOs and capital owners even more rich.

Also who decides the metrics of "Productivity"? If we listen to our bosses and CEOs we would ruin our mind, body and personal relationships while they generate intergenerational wealth.

It's interesting that this is happening when market is being consolidated in the hands of a handful of monopolies.

Same logic does not apply to the upper management because they are not directly involved in generating value for the company. Elon Musk is not out there writing code, Tim Cook is not assembling iPhone or even designing it. Telling someone what to do is not even close to the labor of person actually doing it. And when the "upper management" makes bad decisions and results in huge losses, bottom rung employees are the first one to go.

It's relevant because it proves that majority of the workers are competent. If you are not able to succeed with a competent workforce then you're just a bad CEO/leader and should step down.

Also it's wrong to assume companies are rational. If you are constantly in a cycle of hiring and firing employees, then it indicates you have a no long term vision and no skills to navigate the market.

"Goodbyes are always hard, especially when I'm the one saying goodbye. Today effective immediately I Gavin Belson, Founder & CEO of Hooly, am forced to officially say goodbye....to the entire nucleus division." - Silicon Valley

If anyone, Patrick P. Gelsinger and all the executives who made bad strategic decisions should be fired and not the workers. But of course that wouldn't happen because in US workers have no power. It's like presiding as a judge over the case where you yourself are accused.

Unionize!

Why do you think the workforce who generated record profits for Intel only a couple years back are suddenly "unneeded"? That's just reflects the dumb decisions made by the leadership. If anything the CEOs and upper management who made those bad decisions and still taking millions in bonuses should be fired.

I think the journalist is bang on point. The company can pay $1.5B in dividends but cannot pay enough to keep their workforce. Corps will do everything to avoid paying their workforce fair share of the profits.

Delhi police has a history of beating up protesters and Delhi police works directly for central government and not state administration. You would know if you follow Indian news.

> You know nothing about the laws

Personal attacks usually indicate defending a flawed position. The farmers participating in the largest protest in history definitely knew how the law affected them, as opposed to the govt who passed the laws without discussion.

> Regardless, it's a lie that police beat up farmers.

There are literally tons of videos police beating up farmers. So I’m not sure what you’re talking about.

> Stop spreading propaganda.

The Indian news media did propaganda against farmers. These news channels who never say a word against BJP govt tried so hard to undermine the protest that they were banned from covering the protest. They literally have a name “Godi Media” meaning media sitting in the lap of Modi.

Police most often serves the capital owners through the politicians funded by capital owners. The farmers protest in India was a good example of this. Police tried to barricade, beat up the farmers who were protesting a law that would’ve benefited the agro companies and put small farmers on a weak position.

Not that different from American police. They also work with less toys and much less salaries than American police.

"people who never lived under commie regime" - I get to hear this so often. We live in under a capitalist regime where 1% of the people own the rest of the population. Basic human needs like healthcare and shelter are paywalled by big corporations. Do you sincerely think wasting your life to make those 1% even more richer is somehow better than communism?

Btw, I didn't even claim that communism is the best way forward, you just assumed it. I would rather advocate for socialism which has better chances to succeed in US. Still, the moment we wave off 10k from student loans people start shouting "communism". Those same people got millions of dollars in PPP loans, still fired their employees and saw nothing wrong with it.

The main context here was about unions and people still cry "communism" whenever they hear the word union. I have seen immense benefits of unions from past generation and feel sad that they are not as prevalent today. "United we bargain, divided we beg" is the whole point of unions and still people choose to beg because "big bad communism". This propaganda has been enforced on us so much by govt that we forget what's good for us and that makes me sad.

The question was whether communism meant equal outcome and the answer is No. I’m not gonna defend Romania, Soviet Russia or any other old regimes on how they implemented communism.

The context here is about unions. Democracy at work is important and unions are the best way to achieve it in a capitalist nation.

You are wrong, communism was never about equality of outcome, it was more about equality of opportunity. This is part of red scare propaganda. Also US had a lot to do with Cuba and Pol Pot if you study history.

One has to wonder whether these decisions are based on logic or on what Wall Street(investors) demands. Now is a high time for unionization among software devs irrespective of their pay scale.

What's the use of worker rights if one is not given fair chance to be a worker again?

> due to the impact it will have on their lives

The impact being to sell your house, car and other belongings, often for pennies and uproot your children who have only known US as their home. It's insanely cruel to want to immediately deport H1B holders who have been paying taxes for 10-15 years. And all this because Wall Street thought the profits were not high enough.

> Since they often get favoritism in layoffs, why favor them even more?

How is it a favor to give someone more time to search for jobs? That's just being considerate.

> he was laid off first in a team of 18 Chinese H1Bs because the rest of the team

The evidence you gave is anecdotal. Many H1b workers were laid off during recent layoffs and scrambling to find a job in couple of weeks just to stay in the country. Source: https://www.wsj.com/articles/tech-layoffs-hit-h1b-visa-worke...

non-paywalled version: https://thebrunswicknews.com/news/business/tesla-accused-in-...

How is this unique to Apple though? Every other smartphone company does this. It was innovative in 2012, now it’s as common as a wheel.

It’s slightly more convenient than carrying a paper transit pass and a credit card(which don’t consume energy) sure, but nothing life changing for anyone.

That’s why I asked meaningful in what way.

Meaningful to me is something that improves quality of life for majority of people like vaccines, cure for terminal decease, better public transport etc. Making a $1000 phone sadly does not fall into same category.

Apple did push the industry with personal computers in 80s and better smartphones in 2007 but since then it’s been very incremental improvements.