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Re:I Was Wrong about the Ethics Crisis (Moshe Vardi, CACM) by forgetfreeman on Monday December 30, 2024 @01:34AM (#42547055)
Hey. Remember that time a bunch of economists and politicians got together and decided we'd brick domestic manufacturing and switch to a service economy? Well this is what a service economy looks like.
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Re:I Was Wrong about the Ethics Crisis (Moshe Vardi, CACM) by jandrewrogers on Monday December 30, 2024 @02:28AM (#42547316)
None of which is relevant to my point.
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Re:I Was Wrong about the Ethics Crisis (Moshe Vardi, CACM) by forgetfreeman on Monday December 30, 2024 @04:10AM (#42547752)
Segments of the working class who would have in decades past done modestly well for themselves in the industries we're currently missing are now stuck trying to get by on jobs that were intended to give teenagers something useful to do. Seems pretty relevant to a discussion of minimum wage. That is what we're talking about, right?
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Re:I Was Wrong about the Ethics Crisis (Moshe Vardi, CACM) by ahartmetz on Tuesday December 31, 2024 @10:55AM (#42559460)
In the UK, that "new economy" was even explicitly motivated by strong unions in industrial labor, and Thatcher really hated unions. It's not that far-fetched that something similar happened in the US.
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