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Re:New Facebook tool allows employers to suppress “unionize”... by compiler-guy on Friday June 12, 2020 @02:44PM (#23502334)
I think the burden of proof is on those saying, "This time it will be different."
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Re:New Facebook tool allows employers to suppress “unionize”... by Apocryphon on Friday June 12, 2020 @02:50PM (#23502393)
Well, why don't we apply the scientific method and try it out! This industry was built upon experimentation and radical thinking.
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Re:New Facebook tool allows employers to suppress “unionize”... by compiler-guy on Friday June 12, 2020 @02:59PM (#23502472)
Unionization is much more of a social experiment than a technical experiment.
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Re:New Facebook tool allows employers to suppress “unionize”... by Apocryphon on Friday June 12, 2020 @03:02PM (#23502494)
And what is ridesharing, house-sharing, cryptocurrency, or social networking? Or open source software for that matter? As software eats the world, technical innovations are creating social situations that have never existed in the past, creating social experiments whether intentional or not.
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