Re:Cafeteria workers at Facebook struggle to make ends meet
by tyingq on Monday July 24, 2017 @06:41PM
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I would say your edit is unfair in how you're portraying me. I didn't say "It's not that bad". I noted I had been there. As in, I was there, felt it, but had a very different idea of what entities should fix it.
You're putting words in my mouth I never said. In quotes even. I feel like some kind of stand in Boogeyman for someone else that you are mad at.
I'm not arguing whether it is a problem. I'm arguing that FB isn't the right place to solve it.
Re:Cafeteria workers at Facebook struggle to make ends meet
by kafkaesq on Monday July 24, 2017 @08:32PM
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I'm arguing that FB isn't the right place to solve it.
But in practical terms -- this is basically saying it will never be solved at all.
Re:Cafeteria workers at Facebook struggle to make ends meet
by tyingq on Monday July 24, 2017 @09:16PM
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I suppose there's some path where they might exert some negative PR and get a temporary win.
But any "victory" with a corporate customer of their employer wouldn't help the guy down the street behind the counter at a BBQ restaurant, making less for similar work.
I would put more energy into the union mentioned in the article. Which could grow to have leverage beyond one situation.
EDIT: And I would go even further to say that your comments here are an amazing illustration of the justification that happens by those on the upper end. First through a hackneyed attempt at saying "I've been there. It's not that bad." Then through indifference or this sort of broad appeal to "that's just how the market works" or "it's not Facebooks's responsibility" as if poor people just pop out of the aether and it's not our society which creates and allows for poor people to even exist in the first place!