@braindouche if only your child self knew about soft lead pencils then... the softer the lead the closer to black they get.
Doing things the right way isnt always easy, i agree it would probably take a lot of reform. But its better than taking away peoples rights. But as hou probably know our government really doesnt function well enough to do things the right way, so what can we even do i guess.
As an investor class i am also probablh one of the biggest pushers of work from home and think offices for many jobs are outdated and pointless.
I think your confusing a broken media with investors, many of us dont think like that.
Unions are great. No one in thr conversation, even me, the evil investor class, is pro union... so long as workers can choose to leave the union and nonunion workers have the same chance of being hired as union then it has my support.
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I know id never join a union but i support the right of others to... i am responsible for all hiring and firing at my company. I once had to lay everyone off for 3 months. I specifically encouraged them to unionize to negotiate better share compensation for that. I am pro union, i think its in employees best interest. But id also never want to be in one myself.
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Keep in mind these union agreements thst force employees into unions also stop employees from starting competing unions that might serve the employees better as well.
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Absolutely, and i am all for laws that might address those concerns. I think there should be strong anti union busting laws for sure. But in the end employees shoukd have a right to decide how and if to join a union.
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Well to rephrase the democrats **oppose** right tonwork acts, which would allow workers to have the freedom to decide if they want to join a union or not, as opposed to being forced to joining a union against their will.
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Actually your right. I misunderstood the meaning of rigbt to work laws and after reading on it now i was mistaken.
@thor oh the arrogance of humans... first we destroy life on earth and make soecies after species extinct.... then when we build something that has a glimmer of replacing this outrid race with something new we call foul... i say let a profound change in human history happen, cant do much worse than us.
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Self organizing unions are great. But when you have the democrats pushing for "right to work" laws where people are **forced** into unions against their will then yea, its stsrting to creep a bit too close to communism.
Rebuttal chatgpt good
@jhertzli trump supporters arent any better, but since i lean left i really dont feel quite as bad when they throw a tantrum, no real loss.
@Drosmel ill add ya in a bit
@freemo yeah the identity-lefty movement that's kind of picking up steam in the last decade or so does not tolerate dissent.
The thinking is roughly: everything anyone does is about identity oppression, so if you disagree with me about anything, you must therefore be an oppressor, i.e. a Nazi. Punch Nazis.
There is no room for nuance.
They have a huge presence on the main Mastodon instances.
I appreciate the enthusiasm, but it really makes it weird when you're debating something banal like minimum wage.
@Drosmel should be DebeoMorium whats your nick there ill look
@Drosmel you could but chances are i wont remeber by the time im in front of steam... hold on ill login to steam on my laptop just for you ;) sobyea send it
@Drosmel im tra eling right now so wont login to steam for a while. But ill add back when i see you
@Drosmel you can add me if you want: DebeoMorium
Yes, and guns are far more effective at saving lives too, for much the same reason. The thing about tools is thry help both good and bad people. So you will do more by focusing on addressing bad people than addressing access to tools.
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