The fair market wage is determined by the same market forces of supply and demand. If they can’t find local workers at the wage they are offering, raise the wage until they can. If they can’t afford the wages necessary to staff their business with local employees and still make a profit, then they have failed as a business. Simple as that.

Temporary foreign workers are supposed to fill skill gaps in the economy when not enough qualified workers exist, not to supply cheap labour when employers want to improve their bottom line.

I’d also like to point out that smaller local businesses don’t have the power and money to exploit temporary foreign workers in the way corporations such as Tim Hortons can, putting them at a severe disadvantage to compete with them. These businesses still manage to survive in most markets, but would grow and thrive if the playing field was leveled. Fuck corporations, support small local businesses.

I’ve just had this Chinese dynasty, it is fucking minging! Suck your dad!

Except the governments and corporations are there because that’s where most of the people are.

Users are still so ignorant to the fact that they are actually the product that Twitter sells. Some of them even pay for that privilege. 🙄

It’s fair that maybe he felt like he could still insert a pro-labour message in the minds of working class Republican voters who were tuned in, but it’s confounding for him to not call out Trump who is representative of the exploitative capitalists he was talking about. That’s the silent endorsement to me, making it seem like the two are not completely at odds.

“This face eating leopard is good! It’s those other face eating leopards you should be worried about…”

I watched the speech live. I actually agree with a lot of what he said, but the dead silence in the crowd when he wasn’t kissing Trump’s ass was all I needed to hear. That speech wasn’t trying to convince Republicans to revolt against their leader, it was trying to soften moderates to vote for a dictator who will crush them at the first chance.

“Maybe if we become friends with the face eating leopards then they will stop eating our faces!”

Total class traitor.

I’m not deep into the lore, but as far as I understand sovcits believe there is a shadow trust (or a corporate entity with their name in all caps) created for every person that the government gets control of at birth when you “register” it. They also believe that certain laws only apply to this corporate entity and not to them as people, and that they can exploit loopholes to get access to this shadow trust to pay for things by telling others to charge bills to their corporate entity (again, name in all caps) instead of to them as people.

I guess she is expecting a new baby to have a new shadow trust for her to be able to pay for stuff with, thus why she wants to make sure she doesn’t “give up control” of it.

Advertisers believe they are doing you a favour by using personal information to serve “better” ads that would be more “interesting” to you.

I thought all this sovcit stuff was based on some conspiracy of the US government creating secret accounts and ownership of citizens at birth. If this person has a green card then they weren’t born in the US, and none of that would apply to them?

I know this is probably too much logic for them to comprehend though. It does tickle me a little that sovcits would be cool with foreigners coming to their country and just declaring themselves citizens state nationals without any due process. How progressive!

Or this is an analytics database where these are well-defined dimensions added for segmentation logic. 🤷

This is the weirdest paid product placement I’ve ever seen. We really need to get money out of politics… /s

I was one of those strategic voters and I was promised by the Liberals that they were going to have the “last election under first past the post”. That didn’t happen so I decided I am done being dragged into supporting a party that constantly fails to deliver the things I believe in. What I don’t understand is seeing how the Liberals are getting demolished at the polls, why isn’t the new strategic vote to go NDP to stop the Conservatives? They aren’t that far behind the Liberals. 🤷

To make it the same as Pascal’s Wager. Many religions have a “reward” in the afterlife that strictly includes believing in the deity. It doesn’t matter if you follow every other rule and are an amazingly good person, sorry, but if you were an atheist or believed in another deity then you will be punished eternally just because of that. I guess all-powerful, all-knowing beings have incredibly fragile egos and AI wouldn’t be different. 🤷

There are still a lot of workers needed in agriculture, but increasingly they are either undocumented migrants or on restrictive visas (like temporary foreign workers in Canada) that limit their bargaining power and let their employers exploit them with poor working conditions and rock bottom wages. This means that these workers often don’t have the means or income to participate much in the local economy beyond the bare essentials. This is actually a case of “trickle down economics” where paying workers fair, living wages would lead to healthier local economies where these workers could spend those wages and support having or starting a family.

Unfortunately advertising doesn’t work on the majority of their users who are bots. 🤷

I’m so glad the blue check marks are working as intended to combat bots and boost real voices. /s

Republicans: Keep political statements out of my sports/TV/video games/etc!

Also Republicans: You can now make drinking water a political statement!

Could have kept the empty/occupied sign with a subtle indicator for staff that comes on after an unusually long time. Same functionality without showing everyone the time down to the second.

If Texas left the US, wouldn’t that be a massive blow to the federal Republican party losing all those electoral college votes and seats in the legislature?

Who do we associate with the power being resisted against in reality? Governments? Politicians? Police? Corporations? The ultra wealthy? Religious institutions? One person’s “bad guy” is another person’s “good guy”.