Max

If your core team is 1/10 people you won’t organize a workplace, but 10/100 totally can.

Totally, but besides active anti-union activity, bigger businesses are just easier to organize positively as well. A larger pool of workers at the bottom of the hierarchy means a far higher likelihood that you can find a few others interested in trying it.

I mean forget even the idea of revolution; it’s infinitely easier to impose and enforce basic labour standards and laws on larger corporations than it is small businesses. Most 10 person workplaces are simply never gonna unionize too.

I kinda like the Canadian Pale, but not the white background. Makes it seem a bit cheap. Should be some kind of symbol, not a crest though, you’re right.

- on the absolute worst kind of farm owned by the (politically) worst kind of farmer that employs a bunch of workers to do some of the worst work in our society.

The kind of work this won’t effect is either that which already has been largely automated, or is too far off still (ranching).

I mean the atomization of labourers is made infinitely worse by the dominance of small business.

What drives me crazy about this is that people are acting like this automation will somehow hurt individual ranchers or sole-proprietor staple farmers; when if anyone it’ll automate work done -

This is an extremely contentious idea without real consensus to it from what I understand.

The degree to which we’ve changed the rules by which the world works to improve human lives is amazing.

To be clear, it’s amazing, I love technology.

Holy shit that’s an insane concept

This is absolutely not most unions.

Gotten close to playing out? This would be one step after a thousand other steps in the automation of agriculture.

We didn’t all have a society upending political revolution when the tractor and combine harvester were invented; everybody just had more, cheaper food.

No it kinda does. The consolidation of capital as seen as a necessary step to Marx. Organizing isn’t nearly as feasible against one hundred thousand smallholder farmers as it is against a single one.

You’ve made the terrible mistake of trying to have a nuanced conversation about this and actually understanding Israeli politics.

You’re being way too kind to this weirdo

Every second of free time you have ever had in your life was subsidized by the existence of the combine harvester.

I would like to encourage American farming communities to oppose this with everything they’ve got.

We gotta catch up to them on our productivity metrics somehow.

I have no idea how you could possibly think that’s true unless you know nothing about US history. Sinking an enemy warship isn’t a war crime. The war itself is illegal, but that’s separate.

This tracks, most of the buildings where I was in Petach Tikva definitely predated that.

Huh, I didn’t know that about more modern apartments. This struck me as the ones I’d seen just had (awful, roach infested) shelters on the ground floor, not every floor.

On every floor? Do you mean every building?

I think generally reputational harm I’d get not applying to them, but defamation per se I think it’s reasonable. Especially when coming from another public figure.

It can already be hard to get good people to run for office, having them lose these rights by doing so seems bad.

I usually agree, but there’s a line, and alleging criminal activity like that feels like it’s past it.

If Sim said “Orr supports drug use and that kills people so he’s a murderer” even Id think that shouldn’t be actionable, but he made it as a clear allegation of fact, not opinion or rhetoric

This sure looks a lot more like an attempt to appease trump going into USMCA like half of what Carney has done, than it being to do with Israel.

Nobody cares about what time the sunrise is during the summer, the issue is about early winter sunrises vs later winter sunsets.

What sunlight? I spend most of my workday in a windowless room. This will hugely increase the amount of light I get in the winter.

I’d say that solving the not-enough-teachers problem is inversely related to solving the paying-them-more problem.

Like im sympathetic to many complaints from teachers, but poverty isn’t one. Not when you have EAs, library techs, and office staff in schools making half as much as them. It comes off as tone deaf to their coworkers and to the public to me.

Many are also making up to ~120k a year, I’m guessing through teaching in the summer or other paid work or bonuses to salary for other qualifications (wages over 70k are public record here).

The starting salary for a full time teacher is $67k in Victoria BC, that’s significantly above the average income of ~ $43-48k (struggling to find stats can numbers that are more recent).

They start already in the top half, and a decade in they’re solidly in the top 20% of income earners here.