Supply and Demand

American manufacturers say they are struggling to fill the jobs they already have.

That means there’s a demand for workers that is bigger than the supply, so as a consequence, the price for labor (aka. wages) should rise. If it does not, the demand was fake.

My stance is: when arguing on lemmy, you’re not only trying to convince the other one. You’re also trying to convince future readers. Even if the other one is an asshole, people see that and that has an effect.

Genies appear when you “rub the lamp”.

“Rubbing the lamp” is possibly a symbolism for sexual intercourse. It describes the exchange of sexual services against “favors”, i.e. wishes.

As such, it coded a possible course of action of young, powerless people in need to receive a wish.

how about you fucking learn to read my point? I was explaining it two minutes ago.

Now, you’re being emotional, and i respect your stance, but “fuck off” is not a great argument.

It’s mostly racism in the case of the US.

The US wants to preserve its exceptionalism, and thus doesn’t want to get “flooded with a wave of normal people from other countries”.

They worry it would dilute their exceptionalism.

Apart from that, other countries can have other reasons to be against immigration. I live in Europe, and for me it’s mostly economic concerns: I’m thinking that immigrants make the economic situation of the people living in this country worse, because they take jobs and occupy resources such as housing. It’s not racism, just economic concern.

It doesn’t affect me, but it’s not illegal to have good points and valid criticism about other country’s internal politics. As long as they are reasonable and respect the different circumstances of that other country.

worse, Doom runs it

perfect customer experience

but there is no real monetary incentive right now.

dude, solar energy is literally the cheapest form of energy right now. there is a real monetary incentive.

i’d like to be a labor leader, but i’m not (yet). Yet here’s my opinion:

Knowledge was meant to be free since the beginning. I look at ideas as human-cultivated, carefully cultured viruses. They’re packages of information that live within a host.

They’re a lot less aggressive than their feral counterparts, but they’re still individual beings who want to spread. Holding back knowledge is unnatural, and the internet should be free.

damn Ubuntu Satanic Edition sounds cool.

Water dissociates in the presence of electrical voltage into hydrogen and oxygen, and that makes it somewhat conductive (due to ionisation).

The bigger problem however is corrosion. Said oxygen causes corrosion.

the onion can not keep up with this, because fiction has to be believable, unlike reality ;-)

I think it doesn’t actually matter what distro you use.

It’s like whether you’re wearing red socks or blue socks. As long as you’re wearing socks, so you don’t get cold.

No shit sherlock.

But the decline in real (inflation-adjusted) wages is a broader phenomenon and not constrained to gig-works, and that’s what deserves attention.

Background:

For years, inflation has been under-reported. Inflation should be measured mostly based on food-items, as the production methods don’t change over time in these areas, so prices there (inflation-adjusted) should stay constant. But if you look at official inflation rates, they are much lower (approx. 1% annually). Since wages barely keep up with official inflation, they fall behind on “food”-inflation. And that principle is basically at the core of the current “cost-of-living”-crisis.

The basic issue is that wages are dropping because progress is ending. Progress creates demand for human labor, and that keeps wages up. Since progress worldwide is slowing down, that depresses wages. That’s why we need fundamental reform, or revolution.

Or we need to find new progress. I’m all for mars settlement btw, just that many people here can’t imagine it happening (yet). But we’ll see.

to not have to balance priorities between getting a good tip and following restaurant policies.

Can you explain more? Like, why is it an either-or-situation?

It’s all about how far you look into the future.

If you look into the future by 20 years, then yes, not tipping is the best way to improve the average wages of servers, and in fact the wages would probably rise to match exactly the loss in tippings.

But if you look at only the next 3 months, wages might not rise quickly enough to compensate the losses through tipping, and that puts servers in a (temporary) hardship.

So, it’s all about whether you’re far-sighted or short-sighted.