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Good for him doing this, but how about as a country we solve this problem? I thought this was the richest most advanced country on the face of Earth ever? We can't even provide water that doesn't give you cancer or mental disabilities? Come on.

That's why I said 'everyday tasks'. This wasn't really meant to be scientific or compare heavy workloads, but claiming iPhones have a giant advantage in total is a bit untrue.

Have any evidence to back that claim up?

Even the $320 Pocophone F1 can perform at and above the iPhone XS Max performance in everyday tasks [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emPiTZHdP88

>Self-centered, detached, unaware of their constitutional privileges to change things or unwilling to use them, perhaps.

I think this is very accurate.

Freedom.

No issues with Dell warranty/service here and I send Dells, Lenovos, & Macbooks out for repair a few times a week. Equally as good in my opinion.

I'm talking more like $45. Can be found on Amazon too for a little more.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Original-KZ-AS10-5BA-HiFi-St...

Chinese IEM's & earphones are actually starting to compete with the big guys in USA and some simple research can yield wonderful results. TRN, KZ, LZ, Tin Audio, are all wonderful.

Head-Fi forums are all the rage about them.

>It's still barely above poverty in anywhere that's not rural.

I included that.

I would bet they'll be given even less hours now, but at $15/hr.

That's such a bulls##t study. $15/hr is rent and nothing else anywhere within 15 miles. $15/hr qualifies for HUD rent control in Seattle.

I agree with all of your points. Noam Chomsky recently points out that when you walk into work in USA now, you're really walking into something akin to a communist dictatorship [1]. Private Governments.

[1] https://taibbi.substack.com/p/preface-an-interview-with-noam...

It is exploitation at the highest levels.

Employer pays subcontracting company $30-$35/hr, subcontracting company pays the employee $15/hr or lower and pockets the rest. Subcontracting company offers benefits at almost 1/2 of your paycheck every month, and nothing else. Subcontracting company offers you nothing of benefit except for the job you could've gotten without them if the parent employer posted the jobs but they don't because then it would be FTE. Parent employer only provides the job openings to the subcontractor. This is all done so the parent employer can avoid paying any benefits.

It should be illegal in my opinion. A lot of lower level tech jobs and now even software development are going this direction. It's very big in Seattle and in my field it's impossible to move jobs unless you're willing to drop your salary $40k/year and wait for a potential FTE opening in which that company will hire you FTE, but you don't know how long you'll be making minimum wage.

Sounds like a monopoly that needs a little breaking up.

https://i.imgur.com/IC8Ehgh.jpg

>I'm guessing for many people an Amazon warehouse job is stable employment near their small town that might not have many opportunities otherwise.

If they do their research, they'll realize they probably won't have a job for that long [1] and it would be preferable to stay in a position (that likely pays better with your examples) that is reliable.

[1] https://www.ibtimes.com/amazoncom-has-second-highest-employe...

>I'm guessing for many people an Amazon warehouse job is stable employment near their small town that might not have many opportunities otherwise.

Not with the 2nd highest turnover of all Fortune 500's.

https://www.ibtimes.com/amazoncom-has-second-highest-employe...

I didn't hear anything about improving working conditions. The employees in Seattle making $15/hr already are still being treated like shit.

>What we need isn't just to get the people at $10 to $15, it's to get the people at $20 to $35 or $50.

Exactly. $10-$15/hr is absolute bare minimum to SURVIVE now unless you live in an extremely rural area. $15/hr is coming too late.

$15/hr is not a lot of money, regardless of how positive and mind blown these media websites are. Nobody's "moving cities" for $15/hr. It's still barely above poverty in anywhere that's not rural. $15/hr in Seattle is poverty or living 2-3 hours away from work.

>This gets floated around a lot. At least in the US I can't imagine a scenario where not paying bills for 1 or 2 months results in homelessness and a repo'd car.

>Being both a homeowner and a landlord

You're in a totally different economic situation, and probably have little to no economic struggles at all. I'll call this out of touch as well.

If it's on the NY Times about a trade war and a country the USA is losing ground to economically, it's probably something relating to Chomsky's propaganda model.

Now they're going from $7.25 with medicaid, to $15/hr with no health insurance and no subsidies. The $15/hr middle is rough.

You're out of touch with the job market and reality itself. It's not easy for these people to just "get a new job". They get paid minimum wage and are probably living paycheck to paycheck. If these people just "move jobs", they're out a paycheck for weeks and may lose their car, their home, not be able to eat, etc.

>I'm not sure it is fully capitalism's fault, but more of lack of laws protecting folks from capitalism alongside adequate enforcement of those laws.

So what you're saying is...it's capitalism's fault?

>I'm assuming it relates to the tight labor market giving workers the power to choose where they work at (as opposed to "this is the only job offer I have")

Lol no it's still not like that unless you have a high salary career, and most people don't have those.

>Or you’re NYC and already have an existing subway. But instead of 10s of millions it needs HUNDREDS of millions (or more) to ‘fix’, minimum.

Remind me how much money is in NYC?

The answer nobody wants to hear, but knows is true. There is propaganda from all sides with big lobbying interests. Media is completely in the pockets of those interests which only further pushes the propaganda model.

Just watch TV around an election. It's complete and total doublespeak and propaganda every few minutes.

Our country is a lot bigger with barely anything in the middle. Cities without adequate public transit can be blamed directly on the voters.

I always call it the hamburger menu, especially when doing tech support for everyone.

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I don't apply at companies I don't share moral & ethical grounds with in the first place. Amazon sends me recruitment offers all of the time and I turn them down immediately, even straight up telling the recruiters I don't agree with their morals or ethics. None of it stops them from repeatedly sending me offers though.