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nevemsenki ,

Supply and demand.

If there’s less supply of workforce, workers are in a better position to demand better conditions or wages. Oversupply of workforce gives employers more power in turn.

More immigrants - or anything that balloons the workforce - helps the side of employers, even without considering the fact that most immigrants are satisfied with worse conditions and/or lower pay than western workers.

nevemsenki ,

Not really, it’s something I’ve lived through already before.

When the USSR collapsed, most of our industry imploded virtually overnight. Demand for work disappeared, and so did wages and worker rights; you are in no position to bargain when there’s a line of people to replace anyone at the drop of a hat.

Then we joined the EU and the problem slowly fixed itself by… emigration! A LOT of people left to work in Germany and the UK, making the workforce scarce (=reducing supply). And let me tell you, it’s a lot easier to negotiate with employers when people are hard to replace.

But go on, explain to me how bringing in a cheap workforce will improve the locals bargaining position on the job market.

nevemsenki ,

They weren’t private but the management wasn’t aby less shitty. And the moment the old system collapsed they turned even worse.

Also not sure how you came to the conclusion I think corporations would ‘have my back’. I literally explained they’ll only negotiate with workers as long as workers are not too expendable. It doesn’t matter what makes workers expendable - societal changes, AI, immigration - the workers positon will worsen and corps will push against their rights.

Why do you think our govt is importing hundreds of thousands of workers from Asia? To push the wages down and be able to loosen worker rights. Because as long as the worker is replaceable - oversupply, if you will - they aren’t in much position to push any demands.

nevemsenki ,

As long as there isn’t enough people waiting on jobs to easy replace someone, there is room for negation because if the guy packs up, the work won’t be done and no money is made.

Sure, the company can pack up shop and relocate to a different country, but that also has a bunch of costs in itself. It may be more profitable to pay people slightly more - again, negotiation. But again, that is only possible if it isn’t easier to just quickly hire someone else.

You don’t need to believe me, just check how the average hungarian wage increased in the last 20 years. That’s the effect when there aren’t enough surplus workers, so employed people can’t be easily replaced.

nevemsenki ,

It’s literally how it worked. You can check the statistics.

nevemsenki ,

Isn’t that more of a gagging?

nevemsenki ,

Just click attack and it’ll work. If not just deploy all untrained units and click attack again!

nevemsenki ,

Squire’s ads are better than the actual vids of some other YTers…

nevemsenki ,

Good idea, let’s drop a colony on them instead.

nevemsenki ,

Yeah, should’ve put them in the pipes like modern people do.

nevemsenki ,

There’s some ageless classics. HoMM3 came out 25 years ago and is still pretty much the top of its genre. Freespace2 more or less shut down the spacesim genre 25 years ago, as well…

nevemsenki ,

Reminder that even earth strongest fighter (that being Krillin) is mostly a joke since forever. And for most of us, even fucking Yamcha would kick our asses.

nevemsenki ,

Ah yes, the usual method of waiting until the issue becomes confirmed and also way too severe to fix instead of acting on precaution and harming profits of private companies. What could go wrong?

nevemsenki ,

Sure, PFAS were also considered a nonsignificant issue until they weren’t, only it’s too late to unfuck it now. Well, no harm in generating more potential ticking time bombs I guess.

nevemsenki ,

shrock

nevemsenki ,

Wait it doesn’t? I always thought it was Lasers, Guns, Bombs, Tanks?

nevemsenki ,

Heat waves and stupid tourists do not mix well, apparently.

nevemsenki ,

Going publicly traded fucks every company up with nextquarter-itis.

nevemsenki ,

Computers do what people tell them to do, not what people want.

nevemsenki ,

Hello Sir, I am Ahmed Hajeeb, your driver for tonight. Please spell your destination slowly and clearly if you would kindly.

nevemsenki ,

Unless Trump is elected, then they have a realistic shot to keep thier gains.

nevemsenki ,

The white people didn’t disappear alltogether, but a lot of them did emigrate. Jewish people are kind of unique in the way that they face hostility everywhere outside Israel, so that’s not really an option for them.

nevemsenki ,

Let’s use a protocol that shadily blocks everything google doesn’t like. Yeah, fuck that.

nevemsenki ,

Try using a custom ROM on Android and you’ll quickly see.

nevemsenki ,

Windows malware: excited noises

nevemsenki ,

Why the hell would my fridge be connected tonthe water main in the first place?

nevemsenki ,

Wish it wasn’t so thinly veiled japanese propaganda.

nevemsenki ,

And if Ukraine is not getting enough aid soon, all those dead will be worth it for russians as they annex (a good portion of) Ukraine.

nevemsenki ,

Someone forgot turning TCAS on.

Study finds voters skeptical about fairness of elections. Many favor a strong, undemocratic leader (apnews.com)

Voters in 19 countries, including in three of the world’s largest democracies, are widely skeptical about whether their political elections are free and fair, and many favor a strong, undemocratic leader, according to a study released Thursday....

nevemsenki ,

Between the housing crisis, economical hardships, ecological collapse and whatever else I’m forgetting about, it’s a bit strange to be surprised at people’s faith being shaken in democracy. Since none of those issues have been seriously addressed pretty much anywhere.

nevemsenki ,

One hand, jesus christ that is all kinds of fucked up. On the other, if the alternatives are starving to death or the mob beating your teeth out (we don’t know what forces these people into their position), anyone would he willing to do a lot of things they wouldn’t normally.

This world’s pretty fucked up. I remember being disillusioned of socialism back in the day (still am) but shit like this makes me wish there was some magical better system than our shitty capitalism.

nevemsenki ,

If someone has access to your sticky note they’re already in your house, and that’s a bigger issue IMO… even from an itsec perspective, once the attacker has physical access to guarantee safety is difficult.

But seriously, there’s a guy in your house.

nevemsenki ,

If I know they are there then I either supervise visitors or trust them to not rummage/take my stuff. If that is your issue then keep your postit in a drawer; most people don’t keep their yubikeys in a securely bolted safe either.

nevemsenki ,

I lived in socialism/communism (depending om who talks about it). After having experienced it, I’m definitely not wishing it back.

nevemsenki ,

Any game that makes people actually move is good in my book.

nevemsenki ,

It’s the Badgers…!

nevemsenki ,

Lemmy being lemmy.

nevemsenki ,

ALAAAARM!

nevemsenki ,

Desperation more or less, from what I understand. The old system was terrible and they figured it can’t be much worse if they don’t opt to continue it.

nevemsenki ,

An individual may understand that. Masses won’t.

nevemsenki ,

That image, while not as bad as a touchscreen, is still a pretty poor design. So many uniform buttons so close still require most people to look. Buttons should be clustered and/or have slighty different shape so you can tell by touch which one you’re about to press…

nevemsenki ,

Big… brother…

nevemsenki ,

Ruined Germany? More like created it. He also invented the social security we use in Europe until today, since he recognised social unequality as an issue. To quote him:

The social insecurity of the worker is the real cause of their being a peril to the state.

The whole matter centres in the question, Is it the duty of the State, or is it not, to provide for its helpless citizens? I maintain that it is its duty, that it is the duty not only of the “Christian State,” as I ventured once to call it when speaking of “practical Christianity,” but of every State.

Bismarck also wanted to avoid something like WW1. He was a strong believer in maintaining good relationship with the Tzarist Russia, because he was very concerned of Germany being encircled in a conflict.

nevemsenki ,

It’s not a scam - it’s a system older than 100 years that was built around different societal parameters that exist today. It worked well in its time, but society changed without anyone adapting the system to it. There would be also ways to make it (more) sustainable, but as usual implementing the solution was delayed so long it’s very hard to do so now…

As for your 2nd point, really? It’s so reaching I won’t even bother with it.

nevemsenki ,

Oh no, a russian asset going down.

nevemsenki ,

Am not from the US, so I don’t care a bit about Pelosi. Assange itself made it apparent he’s on a russian payroll.

For one, when the Panama Papers came out, Assange was quick to critise it for badmouthing russians. To quote them:

Putin attack was produced by OCCRP which targets Russia & former USSR and was funded by USAID and Soros"

Hell, let’s take Assange’s words about why they never poke Russia?

In Russia, there are many vibrant publications, online blogs, and Kremlin critics such as Navalny are part of that spectrum. There are also newspapers like Novaya Gazeta, in which different parts of society in Moscow are permitted to critique each other and it is tolerated, generally, because it isn’t a big TV channel that might have a mass popular effect, its audience is educated people in Moscow. So my interpretation is that in Russia there are competitors to WikiLeaks, and no WikiLeaks staff speak Russian, so for a strong culture which has its own language, you have to be seen as a local player.

He’s either an asset or a willful idiot.

nevemsenki ,

Maybe he’s still waiting in the respawn queue.

nevemsenki ,

I’m not OP, but I can certainly give you my story from Hungary. Not USSR in name, but USSR enough for the distinction to be moot.

Story starts with parents and grandparents. They were around when the soviets put Rákosi into power. He installed communism - everything belongs to the people! Including our fucking house. My grandparents often retold how police came one night, told them their house now belongs to another family, and they were told to get lost by morning. They could bring whatever they could carry with them, but they had to leave all the farming equipment, all the animals, pretty much all their belongings behind. The few hectars of land and our animals all belonged to the Producer’s Union anyway, we lost all rights to them virtually overnight.

Not that it mattered. The things you produced? Since everything belongs to the people, police would come and take away whatever quota the party set that year. Even if we produced it, it’s not ours after all. We may or may not got some of it back, depending on what the allocations were set. Usually not - famines got common, becuase noone cared too much about their work if it got taken away anyway. It got so bad that the good communist people people revolted against Rákosi.

Then came Kádár. I actually lived in that system. Shortages were commonplace. At the start things were strictly planned (later on they opened up to allowing people to work for their own benefit… strictly after they put in their required hours at their workplace, though). There were five year plans, though for what I know, those were mostly for propaganda. But since there wasn’t a free market, the planning bureau would decide how many tractors, shoes, bread etc would be produced. Well, this never worked out well. If you wanted to buy fruits, toilet paper, anything, you would need someone to tell you when the shipment would come. Then you got in line early and hoped the stock wouldn’t run out by the time you got your turn. And you bought whatever you could, because if you had excess toilet paper and your neighbour had none, you could barter for something you needed.

We wanted a car. So we applied at the state car dealership (Merkúr). We paid upfront, waited a year… and got a totally different brand of car in a different colour. We were furious, so we demanded our money back and purchased a second hand Lada Samara from someone in town. It still wasn’t what we wanted, but I’d have rather burnt my money than give it to Merkúr at that point. Turns out the Lada Samara 1300S was a great car though, I shouldn’t have sold it like twenty years later :(

We wanted to build a house. Only everything was in short order. We had to drive three-four towns away, buying bricks and ceramic tiles left and right until we had enough that we could start construction. We didn’t build what we wanted; we could’ve paid for it, but we had to build whatever we managed to find in stock around.

Now I know people called us the “happiest barracks” because say Caucescu in Romania was way worse… but people who are so fond of actual socialism should remember that our people were risking getting shot to escape this system.

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