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They pay just enough to survive, but not enough to plan for the future, improve your position in life, or be finacially stable enough to be a thoughtcrime troublemaker.

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Fixing the environment is no more complicated then making our products in our own countries and paying appropriate wages.

Instead we let China pollute the planet with coal power plants and ships that pollute.

The people who work at amazon warehouses are slaves too. Being a slave is about being abused in a working environment. It has nothing to do with racism.

They make the crap, make slave wages, amazon flys it over and makes all the $$$. You should get excited about that.

Funny how nobody mentions 15 large container ships like this generate as much emissions as all the cars in the world combined.

It's almost like buying products from slaves in Asia and transporting them across the ocean is bad for the planet and the citizens of the planet.

In politics most companies hedge their bets. They give equally to both political parties.

It doesn't matter who wins the elections, they have a guaranteed inside track.

It's just theater.

If I had not bought a house, I would have no savings. Yay inflation. Jobs don't pay enough and social security won't be there when you need it.

Anyone that is thinking of depending of govt for your long term financial stability, should consider if the most important vulnerable years in their lives, should depend on random govt employees and funds invested in politicians friends scams.

Personally I'm not spending any more xmas or New Year's eve in data centers fixing stuff. Been there, done that

Companies like this hire based on how much they suspect they can push the employee to produce beyond what they need to pay them.

Recent immigrants are fertile territory. They don't know the laws really and are just so happy to have a job in the new country etc. They will put up with a lot of unpaid overtime.

Our favorite globalist progressive companies with all the right virtue signalling about diversity, move jobs to country with fewer laws everytime something gets unionized. They do it for our safety.

It's classic divide and conquer strategy. The peasants are too distracted fighting about idiocy like whether a drug is republican or democrat. Meanwhile the billionaire's are carving up our assets to distribute to themselves.

Own nothing (rent it from us) and be happy with your new life as a serf.

Tires conglomerate, that started a communications company. Nokia tires are pretty good.

Next level of blue screen. I would suspect stars of the future will be similar to "manufactured" and business formed bands of the past.

Sign up a youngster for a small fee. Scan the shit out of his body, voice etc.

Free actor for life.

Kid gets $500 lifetime payment.

The deep fake technology will kill the video star.

Movies will be made more and more with this tech to save $$ on casts.

There is already so much noise pretending to be news that few people pay attention anymore to the media.

Just another version of click bait.

You are talking about union construction workers here. They are only used on commercial jobs mostly.due to the price. All the good trade people work commercial and get paid well. Residential is left with people that can't get the good union jobs mostly.

In Canada the top rate of 50 percent hits anyone making over $60k Usd for comparison.

Most trades in Canada are max tax rate, because the max tax rate kicks in at extremely low levels compared to USA.

Fronting the money for the supplies usually comes from the fact the tradesperson went on a bender after you paid him last time!

Also in the area where I live, most home trade jobs are done with as much cash as possible to avoid taxes.

The pay cash tax savings is greater then any bank financing.

When you pay 50% income taxes you can see that the incentive to work cash is much much greater then formal financing.

If a car repair was going to cost $1000, the tradesperson keeps $500 after tax. He's better off to offer you $750 cash. Take $500 now (he's paid up).

Then if he still collects the $250 cash that's pure bonus.

I didn't even factor in the 20% sales taxes on the work the buyer would have to pay.

All I can say is don't try to expand to a newly third world country like Canada. I just can't see it working here.

This is highly country and legal environment dependant. Very difficult to scale.

Often a tradesperson can secure a lien on a property as part of their permit for that job.

If the tradesperson gets paid,then the security on the debt/loan is gone.

In my own case of endless home renovation, a bigger issue is you have to front the workman etc the $$$ to buy the supplies/lumber/etc.

China causes most of the world's pollution all by itself, so I just never buy Chinease products if I can help it.

Amazon 'jobs' are what slavery in USA in 2021 looks like.

Amazon knows it takes govt decades to catch up with laws. Subcontract out all the really nasty business so they can pretend they know nothing.

Leftist extremism doesn't exist. Look how many years they spent telling us Islam is a religion of peace and calling every islamic attach on society a lone wolf attack.

Cognitive dissonance. Populations doesn't know what to think anymore if they think at all.

My soldering iron is like 30 years old and has 1 to 10 dial. Works great the few times I use it.

I'm still trying to understand why they sell a soldering iron with a cpu and os.

Elon could sell salt water to pacific islanders.

Not much can be done when most bitcoin is mined in China off coal power and the idiots that wrote the Paris agreement on climate change gave China a free pass to pollute the world.

If the multinationals had to pay global taxes, they would immediately lose interest in globalization. If they can't exploit offshore workers, while laying off domestic ones, at the same time avoiding all taxes, what's the point to being a global company?

This is what happens when a leader is a trust fund brat. There is a reason monarchy is not done anymore. The second Trudeau wave is exponentially worse then the first.

Ouch. I get that client images that are not paid to be backed up to a different data center are lost and it's not their responsibility. But Veeam between data centers also not recoverable. That's really bad.

China has a word for laughing at western society about all this. Baizuo.

Google has become a curated search engine. It's no longer finding data based on your enquiry. It's hiding the results from the companies and website that don't buy Google ads, or spend every waking moment on black hat games.

Its up to the citizens to pay taxes, while the largest companies like Amazon pay almost nothing for decades.