Re:Work-from-home boom leads to more surveillance
by tyingq on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @11:53AM
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There was a time when that sort of made sense. When companies didn't lay people off during hard times, carried pensions that were risky for the company, etc. It seems like some didn't understand that loyalty goes both ways...pull one side and the other goes with it.
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Re:Work-from-home boom leads to more surveillance
by wolco on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @12:53PM
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That was back in the day you trained and educated employees (to save money and built loyality). Back when they offered a living wage a single person could raise a family with.
What happened? Free trade.
Cheap goods from other countries gutted the local industries. Hard to compete on price when labour costs are so different. The only jobs remaining become min wage or importing.
People not working as hard as a generation ago doesn't factor in.
Re:Work-from-home boom leads to more surveillance
by munificent on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @01:24PM
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It's important to remember that free trade is not the ultimate cause. Greed among the wealthy elite is. What happened is that rich business owners deliberately pushed for free trade laws as a way to circumvent the laws the labor movement got passed to protect people.
They sold out American workers to increase their profit margins.
Re:Work-from-home boom leads to more surveillance
by andrekandre on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @05:23PM
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said in maybe a slightly different way:
"free trade" allows for the free movement of capital, but not the free movement of labor which is stuck relatively immobile (except maybe from "cheaper" countries to the more "expensive" ones)
Re:Work-from-home boom leads to more surveillance
by throwaway-87398 on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @01:01PM
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Honest question: How do you know what you are saying about how companies used to be was ever true?