GaBeRockKing
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GaBeRockKing
5d ago
Passing around information is what software engineers do. And more importantly, I'm under no impression that the value of my work is correlated to how long I work is correlated to how much I get paid. And yet it would be trivial accounting-wise to turn me into an hourly instead of salaried worker, and the same is true for the rest of the bullshit-email-job cadre. The business doesn't even need to pay me any more money on net; in fact they could pay me less and it would still be worth it looking at total post-tax compensation.
GaBeRockKing
5d ago
Our society feels as if it is run for the benefit of retirees and people with fake email jobs.
Hi, I'm one of those people with a fake email job (software engineering.) You do understand that offices could easily shift to paying their employees hourly, right? I already track hours. CEOs work a massive amount of "overtime" too. Who's going to tell them that golfing with their business partners isn't a business meeting? They can just shift their stock compensation to income instead. "No taxes on overtime time" alone or in conjunction with "no taxes on tips" is effectively just a massive, widespread reduction on income taxes for everyone who's not a public servant.
If your goal is to destroy the public sector, balloon the deficit, and justify cuts to every type of welfare-- well, I admire the elegance of your murder weapon. But at least be honest about it. This isn't a proposal to "help blue collar workers." It's a proposal to kill medicare, social security, and medicaid all at the same time.
And for the record, I 100% believe Kamala Harris is going to end up saying something similar, just like she copied trump's homework on the "no taxes on overtime" thing. The only difference is, she'll also impose punitive wealth taxes and maybe a VAT to continue funding our existing welfare state. It's a truly no-win scenario.
GaBeRockKing
5d ago
Today, of course, the entire industry should just be drowned in a bathtub. It is so ideologically captured as to be worthless. I don't care if I ever read another book of "literature" written after the year 1980.
I think you have an overly narrow view of what the "industry" is. The publishing industry, certainly is staffed mainly by 30 and 40 something white women trying to appeal to the same. But the superset-- the literature industry-- is much larger, still relevant, and wholly unkillable. We think of "literature" as being "classical books about people being depressed in russian" and "modern books about suburban moms leaving their husbands" because that's what we learned about in school and that's what makes it onto the talk shows. And so because nobody reads those books and actually changes what they believe, we think literature is a dead, academic pursuit. But in reality, I think it's stuff like dark romantasy smut and isekai webnovels that are having the greatest net effect on philosophical and moral development. (Which is a terrifying thought, but I digress.) You can find any number of people talking about how, for example, Mushoku Tensei changed their lives.
/u/coffee_enjoyer this is also relevant to your comment.
GaBeRockKing
5d ago
I mean in exclusively the technical sense, but you're a scrub. Effective emoji use is associated with better social outcomes. (Low quality study but I'm being lazy since I don't think you'll disagree with me.) Emojis are the new midatlantic accent are the new cockney rhyming slang. Their aesthetic qualities are totally irrelevant-- what matters is that their effective use signals charisma and social status.
This is a solved problem. If you're getting paid hourly and there's no good way to discriminate non-work time from work-time you just claim as much time as you think your bosses and a court of law would let you get away with because that's what you're incentivized to do. If they can't accurately correlate your level of output to your hours worked that's a them problem.
You don't. Abuse is the point. There's no possible way to segregate between "legitimate" hourly work and "illegitimate" hourly work without massively expanding the regulatory state... which of course would lead to regulatory capture that would favor all the people favored by the current system anyways.
"No tax on overtime" is transparently the sort of populist bullshit that succeeds as messaging but is is totally unworkable as a policy proposal. It's a way for trump to tell blue-collar workers that he's their guy without having to actually promise workable policy. When he tries to pass this and it fails his base will blame congress instead of him, and then content themselves despite a complete lack of further advancement. Just like his "build the wall" spiel.
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