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Bozo_Casanova

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  1. Why would it have to be one or the other? Related question- why were these employees hired and who hired them?
  2. Do you mean like business owners, represented by the legal fiction of incorporation, their hired management teams, and the liability shield and negotiating leverage and buying power that comes with it? Or something else? How is a union different, except on the sell side?
  3. Of course you do. Even if you don’t, you do.
  4. No offense, but that’s a reflect on your management of the workforce, and this very dumb objective: What a stupid goal. Let’s all laugh at this. But, thank you for mentioning it, because it’s a good example of what I’m talking about. Of course it’s easier hide the ball from individual workers who don’t see comp and benefits across the workforce. And if hiding the ball is your only advantage you don’t have much to manage with. The “pain in the ass” you refer to is intelligence. You’re squandering the opportunity to make comp easier and reduce attrition and turnover. Probably some form of tax and incentives for public companies. What a bad strawman. Do better.
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  7. The funnest part is that the most famous people got last billing.
  8. Fair enough- I don’t think purity tests for candidates and politicians are the problem so much as purity tests in candidate recruitment- right now, in 2025, in Texas, white men who are competent and have deep roots in their communities are being discouraged from running for open seats and Republican controlled seats on the basis of their demographics. And then you have the local machines and favored vendors that are coin operated and come with their hands out looking for a piece of the action. Furthermore, all candidates are subjected to questionnaires and other required positions from The Groups, which I suppose is reasonable on its face but leads to bullshit like “Kamala Harris supports taxpayer funded sex changes for illegal aliens in prison.” I’d like to see the party rally around an extraordinarily narrow set of things that focus more on who Democrats care about than placating the loudest organizations and most avaricious local bosses under the umbrella. So all that is to say: winning must come first. It’s not the most important thing. It is, however, the first requirement.
  9. Those people aren’t “right wing nuts.” They are co-belligerents that you need to save the Republic. Only then can you earn the privilege of fighting about policy with them. Until then, they are teammates, not adversaries.
  10. Larger fee for an expansion team in DFW because it’s a bigger market, a better market, has richer people, and would be 5-6 years further out
  11. In for a penny, in for a pound
  12. BTW- in the event a zoom meeting happens, this group should be reminded to turn off their microphones and cameras in the event they wish to participate while naked, need to use the toilet, or/and masturbate.
  13. Counterpoint: 1) Seattle will get an expansion team before Vegas no matter what. 2) A post Mavs expansion team in Dallas would generate more fees than a Vegas team, and on a more convenient timeline. The number of times the league has prevented teams from leaving cities that do not support a new arena is *zero.* If the public won’t pony up for a new arena and the lege doesn’t get behind gambling so they can self-fund, they are gone.
  14. I know you are being hyperbolic, but, basically, every word of this is false- deeply untrue common knowledge. Unskilled labor is very cheap, totally interchangeable and cost competitive with anything. Robotics were used to replace unskilled labor in manufacturing mostly as a result of labor shortages. The real impact of automation and robotics has been to eliminate skilled routine work and compress middle management. You cannot understand the evolution of the US economy over the last forty years but especially since 2002 without internalizing that reality. AI will accelerate that trend and drive It upwards into higher levels of skill. No- again, this is an example of being programmed against your own interest. Your friend is paid more than a pediatrician because he plays an essential role in a value chain that creates more economic value than a pediatrician or state attorney. His share of productivity has risen as productivity increased and fewer humans were needed on the line. He’s being paid not for turning screws but for the institutional understanding to keep a hugely lucrative value chain going and get it back on-line if the routine breaks for some reason. He’s never been more valuable. And because he’s part of a collective seller of skilled labor that can negotiate as an equal with a single collective buyer of labor,* he gets paid like it. That’s not a racket, that’s equality- men died for it. * any incorporated business is, fundamentally, a collective buying entity of organized investors and entrepreneurs who negotiate the price of labor and goods as a single entity.
  15. Thats why I use Honest Vaclav VPN Is safe! Not for crimes or to steal identities!
  16. Find a woman who looks at you the way Norma Rae looks at a fair wage and better conditions. No. But pause a moment and think about the elaborate framework of interconnected premises about the labor market that are baked into your question. It’s not a criticism of you- the voting population has been intentionally programmed to think about the labor economy and organizing labor a certain way, and probably the majority of what they think they know is simply false. There is no necessary, causal relationship or direct link between union labor and higher prices. Show me a bad union and I’ll show you bad management, and vice versa. 100% of the time. They are symptomatic of each other. And incidentally, that’s true with labor problems whether there’s a union or not. We just give management a pass when a union goes bad. In other words- if they commit crimes, they should be prosecuted vigorously. If it’s as simple as dysfunction, fuck ‘em. They won’t be competitive and somebody more capable will come along and eat their lunch. We don’t need to erect barriers to trade, all we’re doing is propping up incompetence. The hand of the market is faster and less subjective.
  17. So much this. Flagg, who I’m glad to have, is 7-8 years from his prime. He can probably contribute immediately and hopefully he’ll be the next Grant Hill, but there’s more than a little bit of a Great White Hope vibe around this kid. My point is that we can’t trust Nico to manage this situation if Cooper Flagg exceeds all expectations. How can we trust Nico if he doesn’t?
  18. In my opinion one of the most important things we could do to improve the health of the US economy (and ultimately corporate America by improving and streamlining price discovery the labor market) is for national policy to encourage most companies and businesses to organize. Most non-management workers should be members of a collective bargaining entity, working on an hourly rate.
  19. Think the Lakers would give us Luka for AD and Christie + a 2031 RD1?
  20. When I was a kid, I sent away for one of these bad boys: It held about 1000 BBs and ran on R12 Freon cans attached with an O-ring adapter. Incredible fun- we would rub around the neighborhood shooting everything and everyone. Of course that was when Freon was about $.25/can. I stopped using it when it became cost prohibitive.
  21. Nico gonna trade this pick to Houston for Dillon Brooks and a Blastoise card
  22. Scalia definitely has no ethical compass. He just wants to eat brains and moan
  23. Yes- and at @TwiceHorn points out the crisis is general to the population. But lawyers have a special role in society, and then they fail, it puts the rule of law at risk, which puts society itself at risk. Sigh. My point is that the legal profession does not effectively police itself, especially against bad actors who discredit the profession and weaken public faith in the legal system. Nothing more or less. I’m not sure where you’re getting the condition in bold. I certainly didn’t point to a lack of reporting as a problem, although it may be, I have no idea.
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