Re:Tesla's mass firings spread to SolarCity
by gaius on Thursday October 26, 2017 @07:36AM
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You can't fault companies for doing what was needed.
Well, you can, or no obligation means anything anymore. Why should a company even pay you your wages if things are a little tight this month, by that logic?
Re:Tesla's mass firings spread to SolarCity
by kamaal on Thursday October 26, 2017 @10:58PM
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Salary is an obligation in return for your services. The company doesn't owe a person a job for passing time at office.
Its just people woke up to the fact that socialism wasn't a feasible model anymore.
Re:Tesla's mass firings spread to SolarCity
by gaius on Friday October 27, 2017 @01:54AM
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OK, a company decides it won't pay your pension anymore then - identical scenario.
Re:Tesla's mass firings spread to SolarCity
by kamaal on Friday October 27, 2017 @03:12AM
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Its not an identical scenario. Companies don't pay pensions in most countries. These largely get paid through Pension funds, which by and large investment money in Government backed securities.
These are debt obligations at the level of a country. On 'your' investments.
This is totally different than saying a person should be given a job, even if they don't work.
In India many old people got shafted both the ways being asked to take voluntary retirements and being subjected to high inflation rates at the same time.