The trouble with our left is that they are incredibly ineffective and increasingly have no idea how to promote their ideas to the population. We're lucky to have a fairly strong socialist political heritage to live off of but it's dwindling quickly and the current left has not been able in the least to gain new political capital.
In the last elections in my country the key issue was considered to be living wages, in light of the extreme inflation as a result of the Ukraine war. This is supposed to be the left's wheelhouse. The previous center-right government made a huge mess of things, ended their run with a few major scandals right before the election. This should have been slam dunk for the left.
But they made no concrete statements about anything, presented no clear party program, just some generic polite and well-meaning "we should take care of everyone and oh yes racism is bad" They got absolutely hammered by a coalition of center-right and extreme-right.
As opposed to the right which is extremely adept at sending its own people to the poorhouse in order to slave for the super wealthy. But hey the economy is flying!
They will never make another thoughtful, dialog heavy, diplomacy and reason focused Star Trek series. The mass audience won't go to see it if there aren't lots of explosions and personal drama and that's the audience they want.
Employers demonstrated their infidelity to their staff by paying loyal workers, on average, 7% less than new hires — 20 years ago, salaries were largely the same between new and longtime employees.
xkcd #2929: Good and Bad Ideas ( imgs.xkcd.com )
https://xkcd.com/2929...
Riot cops line up next to a sign at University of Texas at Austin. ( slrpnk.net )
Edit: Name of University fixed.
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Employers demonstrated their infidelity to their staff by paying loyal workers, on average, 7% less than new hires — 20 years ago, salaries were largely the same between new and longtime employees.
This might be a more controversial one ( sopuli.xyz )
Alt text: LinkedIn post comparing the firing of Sam Altman from OpenAI to the firing of Steve Jobs from Apple
Sitting near a billionaire ( reddthat.com )
Genius ( reddthat.com )
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