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hedvig··on Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company
Exactly - having enough capital to waste in this way IS a morality issue.
hedvig··on Instacart paying 80 cents an hour because worker received a large tip
So we need to get rid of this "independent contractor" loophole.
hedvig··on The Skylab 4 Mutiny, 1973 (2012)
Sure you can. We're still ethical reasoning humans at the end of the day.
hedvig··on FBI secretly collected data on Aaron Swartz earlier than was thought
How long would've it taken to download everything? And what size disk would you need to mirror it?
hedvig··on Employees at Amazon's New NYC Warehouse Launch Unionization Push
This should not fall to the patrons. This is the problem of the business model. Remove tipping as an option, price the meals, and pay the employees a wage.
hedvig··on Employees at Amazon's New NYC Warehouse Launch Unionization Push
It shouldn't fall to me to pay a business's employees directly. The business should pay its own employees.
hedvig··on Comcast rejected by small town, residents vote for municipal fiber instead
FCC has been coopted by industry, so I don't think that excuse flies anymore.
hedvig··on Comcast rejected by small town, residents vote for municipal fiber instead
"nobody wants to raise rates to generate cash for upgrades."

So maybe we change that mindset, rayiner.

hedvig··on Comcast rejected by small town, residents vote for municipal fiber instead
No its not. That's a huge distinction - these services are held in the public's interest. Not for the profit motive of small group of shareholders. And things like demand having any control or the idea that you can really switch to the "competition" don't actually exist.

Where were you when all of these private companies built-in backdoors for law enforcement anyways.

hedvig··on Madoff’s Victims Are Close to Getting Their $19B Back
The greatest recession since the 1930s, caused by the similar wild west speculative innovation, and the victims on the lower end get depicted as strategic wolves somehow.
hedvig··on Why Do Hospitals Hate Sleep So Much?
There's no error in hand offs. Attending doctors are detached and spend just a little time with a patient during their stay. Nurses and PAs do most of the work.
hedvig··on Why Do Hospitals Hate Sleep So Much?
This would be easy to do a controlled experiment to compare.
hedvig··on Google Tried to Patent My Work After a Job Interview
Oh god forbid an potential employee feels he has some power in this transaction.
hedvig··on The Insect Apocalypse Is Here
This goes hand in hand with the fact that its just ornaments around a landscape built for cars. We need to rework the land and our communities based on just humans walking about. Rip up the roads.
hedvig··on We are Google employees – Google must drop Dragonfly
We need to disempower shareholders.
hedvig··on How Loneliness Is Tearing America Apart
Why do they enable their ridiculous orthodox subset?
hedvig··on Why 'flammable ice' could be the future of energy
Your logic boils down to: because its not as bad as CO2 its not bad?
hedvig··on There is more to high house prices than constrained supply
Those that aren't born into wealth - controlled by rents or controlled by debts. Those with capital - can control others by rents or control others by credit. What great options.
hedvig··on You Snooze, You Lose: Insurers Make the Old Adage Literally True
An insurance company is incentivized to NOT provide service, so no, it doesn't make sense to be profit-driven.
hedvig··on The human costs of Black Friday, explained by a former Amazon warehouse manager
I don't know that its specific to Amazon but more generally comes from a core ideology of abiding by concepts of free market rules to the exclusion of concepts of humanity.
hedvig··on The Homeless Crisis Is Getting Worse in America’s Richest Cities
Does it make sense that they get the same number of senate seats as California?
hedvig··on Across the West powerful firms are becoming even more powerful
I like how easily you separate groups of men in "government" from groups of men in "corporations"
hedvig··on Why affordable housing is scarce in progressive cities
Why aren't there developers that are willing to make 17% margins instead of 20% margins? You know what I'm saying. Related Group has always been happy to and does to this day build luxury units that get scooped up by elite Venezuelans and Russians. Who will build non-luxury units? The owners will claim they're luxury for the next 40 years, so there's no real trickle down effect.
hedvig··on I Found the Best Burger Place in America, Then I Killed It
Supply side economics dominates. There is no such thing as authentic demand.
hedvig··on Wayne Gretzky and the Mysteries of Athletic Greatness
What NFL rule changes handicapped defenses, just curious?
hedvig··on Facebook reportedly discredited critics by linking them to George Soros
I mean, if she shot up youtube because she got worked up by another alt-right 4chan conspiracy theory, then you'd have a point. But she wasn't, she was upset youtube wasn't paying her enough.
hedvig··on Facebook Morale Takes a Tumble Along with Stock Price
I think we all agree phone companies should reconsider allowing telemarketers to buy lines from them.
hedvig··on Big-box retailers are slashing their property taxes through a legal loophole
Submission. Dystopia.
hedvig··on GitLab Made $10.5M in Revenue with Every Employee Working from Home
> charity being run for the benefit of the employees.

Whose benefit then?

hedvig··on Cadbury ‘pushing orangutans towards extinction by wrecking habitat for palm oil’
Well, probably a majority of us agree that this can be controlled from the top and not have to cross our fingers and rely on low-informed consumers to change things.
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