Trinsec @Qoto @trinsec@social.cleverlibre.org

@freemo Well, the strikes aren't always about increasing wages, actually. It's also about lowering work pressure and all that. You seem to be focused on price-fixing here.

@freemo We had teacher strikes, cop strikes, etc, because of the government's decisions. Only possible with unions because how else will you organize this? Here the strikes are usually against government, not so much against companies. At least, not at that large scale. How do you figure this will fit here?

@Amikke @freemo Yeah kinda as I see it, if a lot of stuff is automated, UBI should be a possibility.

@freemo *Giggles* Self-checkout machines are starting to fall in disfavor around here because theft is hugely on the rise due to inflation. Those companies aren't saving anything, just as a funny aside.

There's a personnel shortage everywhere, too. I'd say minimum wage is actually helping out a lot right now. If there was too many workers and not enough jobs, you'd have a point. But right now, not really.

@freemo Huh. That might be an American thing? Here, people are reluctant to hire well-educated people for low-skill jobs, because they tend to stay a short time because they'd get bored and move on to jobs that actually suit their level.

@freemo How does minimum wage cause harm to the poor?

@freemo Unions is to give the workers a fair treatment, isn't it? To stop companies from acting like assholes to their workers.

Price-fixing labour sounds not as bad as price-fixing the market. After all, what is minimum wage if not price-fixing too? Or did you want to get rid of that as well?

@Paulos_the_fog Still looks up to me.

@ElBeeToots Was dat wel een geit? 👀

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@peterdrake Mrm, bug: When the earthquake happened, I went out of crawling mode and wanted to move to the sliding glass doors... but my character got stuck walking south (into the dinner table) and I couldn't do anything anymore because it's stuck doing that walking.

@osfast Succes ermee!

@kemal I read below that 'concrete drilling', so that's actually genius! :)