sixstrings
Re:Additional steps we're taking ahead of the 2020 US Election
on Friday October 09, 2020 @02:57PM (#24733174)
I think the only way out is for governments to prohibited targeted ads as a business model. It’s deeply subversive to the informed populace when everyone lives in completely different realities based on their advertising profiles.
Making a business model like that illegal would force these services to go the paid route, or have less a subversive, and alas, less effective, advertising.
Re:If pay had kept pace with productivity gains, minimum wage would be...
on Friday October 09, 2020 @02:40PM (#24732987)
Is that net or gross? And assuming 30 days of vacation at 7,5 hours each, are those 225 hours part of the equation?
Interesting to see how those numbers aren’t as drastically different from my country as I’d assumed.
Re:If pay had kept pace with productivity gains, minimum wage would be...
on Friday October 09, 2020 @02:23PM (#24732823)
That view is even more flawed, since everyone who pays taxes is an investor of technology. Most breakthroughs in tech happen at universities. It’s not private equity that funds tech, but taxes. So the beneficiaries of tech breakthroughs should be... everyone.