And they can buy a decent restaurant meal for around $3. I'm not sure what you think your point is here.
Chetzemoka
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There's actually a stunning amount of simple hoarding of cash. It's a major contributor to economic stagnation:
https://psmag.com/economics/one-percent-stop-hoarding-much-cash-84996
https://insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/companies-hoarding-cash
https://pitchforkeconomics.com/episode/the-velocity-of-money-with-ann-pettifor/
He's not 100% wrong about the H1B being indentured servitude. By many accounts, the only employees Twitter was able to retain were those here on H1B, which doesn't allow them to change employers without renewing their visa status. A good friend of mine was stuck in a bad employment situation because she was here on H1B. Employers definitely exploit that visa status, pretending that paying the visa processing fees gives them the right to abuse the employee.
But heaven forbid we just reform it to give the H1B visa holder greater employment rights and more freedom to switch jobs easily. Never forget that "meritocracy" is always code for rich. Those who can afford the best schools, the best tutors, who have the best social connections to achieve in their careers. A "meritocratic" system absolutely would not be more fair.
We need to end the habit of prioritizing things based on whether or not they are "productive." It's ok to be unproductive. It's ok to be lazy and fuck around and socialize and just generally hang out helping people.
Sorry, this is a particularly sensitive issue for me right now where our Chief Nursing Officer acts like if we have time to have any conversation with our colleagues, then that means we have enough time to manage one more patient. When the fuck did being able to have a little downtime at work become such a terrible offense?
(Yes, we're unionizing. Because absolutely fuck this mentality.)
No, you're actually wrong on this account. Grooming is definitionally the emotional manipulation that is performed specifically in order to get away with sexually abusing a child. One example of this kind of grooming involves doing illicit non-sexual activities with a child in order to seem like a "fun adult" who "let's them get away with bad things" and to get the child to practice "keeping this our secret" so that when the direct sexual abuse starts, the child is already in the habit of hiding illicit activity from other adults.
"Overwhelmingly, we’re seeing these challenges come from organized censorship groups that target local library board meetings to demand removal of a long list of books they share on social media."
Maybe you should try reading sometime.
"We need to see pain in the economy"
"There's been a systematic change where employees feel the employer is extremely lucky to have them"
"claimed that shift is hitting productivity in the sector"
This attitude is an actual mental illness. Productivity is killing us, killing our climate. What we need is LESS PRODUCTIVITY and more leisure, more time to care for one another, focus on food production, distribution, healthcare, and education, things that involve taking care of other humans. Why should everyone everywhere forever have to live on the razor's edge of their ability to keep up with life?
Yeah I have no idea how this was arranged, but it's a very cool thing to have happened. God bless Mo and his family.
If you think that's true, I feel like you didn't live through the same 90s I did lol
That's about the median, correct