severien
@severien@lemmy.world
- Comment on Return to the office? These workers quit instead. 1 year ago:
Then it would be just moving profits from one pocket to another.
IMHO it can’t explain the industry trend.
- Comment on Return to the office? These workers quit instead. 1 year ago:
This argument never made sense to me. Why would greedy companies voluntarily pay for something they don’t need just to support some “greater good” of keeping the economy afloat? It means reduced profits yet the “contribution” of each individual company is just drop in the bucket.
- Comment on Bosses and workers still can’t agree on whether the commute is part of the work day, and it’s creating a $578 billion productivity problem 1 year ago:
Currently you work 8 hours + 1.5 hours commute. With this you’d work 6.5 hours + 1.5 hour commute, so you’d have 1.5 extra hour for chores or whatever.
- Comment on Bosses and workers still can’t agree on whether the commute is part of the work day, and it’s creating a $578 billion productivity problem 1 year ago:
I would move as far as possible from the job site. 2 hours one way on a train watching Netflix, 4 hours work, 2 hours relax on the train. That would be nice.
- Comment on Wreck the economy because it only works for the billionaire class. 1 year ago:
I don’t get it, do they think that wrecking the economy will not wreck them as well? The rock bottom is still pretty far.
- Comment on Does a food being like 'high in B6 vitamins' or whatever actually mean anything or make anyone feel tangibly different? 1 year ago:
It will make a difference if you don’t get enough of it. But having enough of it will just feel normal.
- Comment on Why wasn't former President Bush of the USA, charged with any crimes, when we marched into Afghanistan and Iraq by his orders, under pretenses? 1 year ago:
You (intentionally?) leave out the important detail that the main orchestrator of the attack bin Laden was at the time in Afghanistan and Taliban refused to extradite him.
- Comment on Bernie Sanders Champions 32-Hour Work Week With No Loss in Pay 1 year ago:
Regardong employment.
It’s pretty much given that the pension system of many countries will collapse, so young people are paying into a system which they either won’t be able to use or will be heavily disadvantaged. IMHO the pension system should be privatized, but it’s of course too late, damage is done.
Income is taxed too heavily and wealth too little. These days it’s pretty much impossible to buy a house for many families even though the population doesn’t grow and new houses are being built. You can’t amass wealth with work, only woth inheritance.
Some worker protection laws should be weakened, specifically laying off people is often pretty much impossible which makes people allocation inefficient and companies conservative.
- Comment on Bernie Sanders Champions 32-Hour Work Week With No Loss in Pay 1 year ago:
My point wasn’t that 4 days outputs more work than 5
Good, but many do claim exactly this to support the “32 hours with no loss in pay”.
- Comment on Bernie Sanders Champions 32-Hour Work Week With No Loss in Pay 1 year ago:
I have looked up some of those studies in the past ans they measured productivity by the company revenue which seems incredibly flawed.
- Comment on Bernie Sanders Champions 32-Hour Work Week With No Loss in Pay 1 year ago:
I’m a SWE too, and my anecdote is that I certainly can’t do work I ij 4 days what I’m currently doing in 5 days.
- Comment on Why doesn't the United Kingdom rejoin the European Union? 1 year ago:
For sure. But UK would be admitted as a “regular” member, without many of the exemptions UK had before. I can imagine they might get the currency exemption this time around as well, though.
- Comment on Bernie Sanders Champions 32-Hour Work Week With No Loss in Pay 1 year ago:
I have same kind of reaction, just in the opposite direction. I’m fine with campaigning for higher salaries, I’m fine with campaigning for shorter work week, but I’m allergic to the combination of both, because it’s usually accompanied by claims that the productivity won’t go down as a result, which is simply delusional.
- Comment on Bernie Sanders Champions 32-Hour Work Week With No Loss in Pay 1 year ago:
In Europe, 4 weeks is the absolute minimum, many countries have higher mandated minimums and people get often extra on top. There are many things wrong in Europe, but the vacation policy is decent.
- Comment on Does The US President have a better chance to win a second term with or without Kamala Harris? 1 year ago:
That’s the point.
- Comment on Does The US President have a better chance to win a second term with or without Kamala Harris? 1 year ago:
Some voters may see two bad choices and not seeing any decent choice won’t vote at all.
- Comment on Does The US President have a better chance to win a second term with or without Kamala Harris? 1 year ago:
Expect a lot of discussions what will happen with Biden dying in office, and that becomes even more possible.
And imagining Kamala as a president is a big turn off.