Developers have high workloads and managers are remarkably oblivious to sloppy work.

Ground lug nut and bolt: I’m tired boss

I think Leavitt is picturing all the propaganda she can spin out of this

Thanks for the interesting read!

My condolences on the state of the US food industry as a whole, and dairy in particular. As a European who loves their cheeses, it saddens me how a product that’s not cheap but accessible can be gatekept economically like that in the US.

Don’t be hard on yourself about it though, to me this is a systemic failure. You clearly did your research, even though the “cheese platter” available to you is small and mostly gross ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ .

If you’re looking for a hobby though: making cheese yourself doesn’t require any expensive stuff except milk (and in some cases time). You may have come across making mozzarella at home, which you can do in a day. But other cheese is possible too: apparently you can make a young cheese with yoghurt as the culture which starts fermentation!

That rate of exploitation is pretty wild though, $2/hr while earning hundreds for the employer. Most capitalists begin uncontrollably salivating just thinking about that.

This is a power thing though, the closest we have/had in terms of rate of exploitation was silicon valley software engineers. They got basically free everything to distract them from how much they were being exploited. If working circumstances were worse, they would have demanded higher pay or quit, because they could afford to.

As the article notes, in the Philippines that is not the power dynamic at all. These are already among the highest paying jobs, and I doubt these workers are in a position to bargain for better. There are too many people willing to take their job, either in their own country, or in other impoverished countries.

Yes, because:

• a small apartment is more comfortable when you have other spaces where you can exist for free

• in our increasingly isolated society we need more spaces for serendipitous socializing

It does tie into affordability though, because the lack of third spaces is in itself an indication of an over-exploited real-estate market. A third space is almost by definition not maximally exploited, because you’re allowing non-paying patrons to take space which could be used by paying ones. Allowing non-paying patrons is only a moral question up to some point, after that it’s just the market forcing the choice between more exploitation or bankruptcy.

Yes, and he’s such a great communicator as well. In those few paragraphs he packs arguments to convince people ranging from idealist liberals to cynical leftists.

IMO this should be the case for everything developed using public money, looking at you, pharmaceutical companies…