I want nothing to do with being in a union and I hope to God my work never gets one. And if they do get a union, I hope I'm not forced to join one.
My wife has been trying to get out of here union for well over a decade, and everyone says ti can be done, but no one knows how to do it.
My wife's best friend, who is a paralegal, was forced into a union. The law firm unanimously voted the union out, and the union sued the law firm for union busting.
My SIL worked for a restaurant that went union. It's no longer in business. When the guy tried to re-open a new restaurant in the same location, the union sued him trying to force the new restaurant to be union.
Unions CAN do a lot of good. But the unions we have in the US are just toxic. We need labor unions like they have in the nordic countries and the way we do them in the US.
I live in a market where I have a choice of ISPs. I can pick either Comcast or Verizon FiOS. I can also do DSL. Nowhere in this area are there any data caps. And my price is significantly lower than what some of coworkers pay. I have a triply play (home phone, Internet and TV) for bi-directional gigabit FiOS and my bill is only $129.00 a month. And that includes a CableCard rental.
You can continue to try to regulate ISPs, which is only as good as the next election cycle, or you can foster actual free-market competition is a far more long-lasting solution.
China is a communist country. They should have a centrally planed economy, and none of these companies should need to IPO, since the government should own them all.
I honestly don't understand any of this
I think the problem we have now with reddit is that we have people screaming that "disinformation" needs to be banned. But "disinformation" is what they consider disinformation. For example, there is a new study out of Canada that does a bunch of number crunching and experimentation and says:
They recommend N95/KN95 masks and good room ventilation as the best defense against COVID-19
I read the whole paper and there some really good science to back up all their claims.
Well, a lot of this goes against current CDC guidelines. And if you link to the paper on Reddit, the downvote brigade will destroy you and you'll be reported. A lot of these people treat emerging science about COVID-19 as evil.
I think it's everyone's job to do what they can to end the pandemic. But there's a LOT of people talking about rouding up unvaccinated people and just shooting them.
It's very hard to have a civil discussion on Reddit these days.
Today is a good day for information-gathering. Read someone else's mail file.