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Equally the status quo is not tenable and clearly not the solution.

There are many people coming up with solutions but clearly 'free market' adjustments have failed an increasing number of workers.

But I will disagree with your economic value question, I think service workers are undervalued greatly.

There is a giant disconnect between wage and economic value, the market is terrible at connecting the two.

Certainly, it's a balancing act.

But equally is it ok for people to work hard and long hours and only barely make Or not quite make ends meet?

Sorry I should note that I am not saying you are advocating for the above(could be misread).

There are definitions and I believe another commenter in this thread has defined it very solidly about poverty.

There will always be service sector jobs, this is the argument luddites were having in 1815 (I don't want to get into this as it is distracting from my main point).

We should be ensuring that anyone putting in 40 hours a week should be able to support a family. The wealth is there to be able to create this society (not saying it's easy not saying there are not problems).

You don't think needing to survive forces or keeping your human dignity forces you to find a job?

That's the way I see it.

But you have said yourself it's 'bagel' money, it doesn't seem to be coherent to be defending both teenager after school jobs and teenagers in poverty.

Any gap in labor law leads to exploitation by a business owner, anything that can lead to business advantage gets used.

Besides I found really distasteful when I was in my 20s being told that I didn't need the additional money because I didn't have a mortgage.

I don't think we need to rely on employer moralism, so Dickensian.

I don't think anyone is saying that these sorts of companies have lots of money.

These business have a model that relies on poverty wages changing the minimum wage will disrupt these businesses greatly and I don't see a problem with that.

You can't keep a broken thing going because of the businesses that will have to change their model.

But sorry I also see your point there needs to be help to business to change their business.

But equally a poverty wage job doesn't get you on the ladder it makes you an indentured servant.

Not sure whether you have factored in lost days of revenue into your back of envelope TCO.

When a cheaper less reliable car is in the garage being repaired it's not just about the cost of repair but also the opportunity cost of lost revenue.

I'm not sure where you got that Australian bankruptcy fact but Australia has had universal healthcare since 1975 (and maybe before not sure of the scheme before)

I recently discovered Firefox on Android has one if you focus on the address bar there is an option to scan, you just need to give Firefox permission to access the your camera

Yes I heard the exact same.

Think it was this (I am sure someone here will know better):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhino_(JavaScript_engine)

Albeit it was two years after the announcement.

Thank you I appreciate the comment back and with facts and figures and back to your original point it is totally not possible to bring the things that American progressives want without lifting taxes - there are not just enough of the 'rockstars' you mention above to pay for those services even if they paid huge percentages of tax which wouldn't be ideal for the regressiveness of doing so.

It's only going to be done with all tax payers increasing their contribution (or maybe all but the lowest).

I think if you read the parent comment it was a binary question.

Not disagreeing with your comment though.

This is just so human centric surely you can see how caring for all of Earth's biome is important.

Personally, I care about Earth's biome in its current state, and do not want to cause unnecessary suffering to animals or plant ecosystems because people trashed the joint especially since we had the ability not to.

For your own ethics and morality you should try though.

Great set of actions.

Cutting down on flying is another action you can take, I looked up emissions from taking flights and its a significant chunk of annual emissions.

Do you mean to say you don't care for any living thing but your family?

I've owned both Toyota and Audi and wouldn't touch another Audi for its finicky engine and suspension.

That being said the Audi drove a hell of lot more smoothly and beautifully but just stuff needed to be tweaked and fixed all the time.

Toyota (and Lexus) just know how to make vehicles that run super well for long periods of time.

That's interesting about the progressive taxation. My quick look at income tax rates in the US is that there is a lot of progressiveness in the income ranges of the top 5% rather than through the income levels that the bell curve of Americans live in. I am not an expert or spent anytime I must say so I'm not arguing just my first look.

What income range do you define as middle class? And What's lower class in the US income wise?

Also for a bit of context what government services do people receive welfare for in the US? What are the big sercices that are driving those net negative tax payments?

No what you are saying is not true or rather it's a deliberate obfuscation of the leading cause of the fires- climate change.

Rainforests that have not burnt before, burned last year.

The fires that exploded across Australia were unprecedented and never burn so rapidly and so hot.

Former fire fighter chiefs saying the opposite of what you are saying:

"Just a 1C temperature rise has meant the extremes are far more extreme, and it is placing lives at risk, including firefighters"

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/nov/14/forme...

Can confirm I do 8-9l per 100km in Melbourne with my Toyota Corolla.

But when Im in traffic in the morning the number of 'consumer' (non work purpose) SUV / 4WDs is fairly significant and they would all be doing at least the average.

You need to go to Europe to see the little cars then.

Australia has half price petrol to Europe and you see this in both car size and engine size.

Also I have read (newspaper so who knows) that Australia allows far more fuel inefficient cars than Europe.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-10-11/australians-car-not-a...

But equally we have a lower percentage of diesel cars which is great for not dying

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/09/170918093337.h...

I do agree with your sentiment I think unfortunately the people who want to work from the office require everyone else to be there too - to make it the office.

I don't begrudge their attitude but hopefully there is just a split in companies between remote companies and on prem companies.

Well this has been presented as an informative interview and it's not?

You may have missed in my comment my disappointment at it being so shallow.

I think that pretty much sums up that interview - what drivel.

"The they" "All the usual suspects" "arrogant vision" - many buzzwords not much critical thought.

I've not read his books and was but that was drivel - I was told he had strong frameworks for critical thoughts - none of that was revealed.

I know right, he is definitely on the right in the political spectrum.

The left or even centre-left has never been in power in the US and probably never will.

You know what that could have been it, that would be one of those tricks.

Thanks for the tip.

I also noticed it today on a website that video was autoplaying and was shocked by it as Firefox has stopped that for some time.

I'll note where it happens again.