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I think so, absolutely. Consider how some people suggest reading 1984 or Brave New World to understand totalitarian societies, or how people suggest various reading science fiction or fantasy as a way of understanding some issue. What the quote describes is the empathy crowd's version of that.

Assuming everything else is a frictionless void, Company A is a better deal compensation-wise, so that's where I'd go.

Goldman Sachs?

We can blame them for much but not this. I don't even blame Google for this. The newspaper initially giving away their content for free is the "problem". Now it's to late to change people's habits.

What they should have done is only making the web site accessible for subscribers or people with a day-pass from buying a paper. The transition from paper to digital would then be more or less seamless for the consumer as they would have both for a while.

Making people realize they don't need the news papers was their mistake.

Why else would you?

Appreciation of food service workers in particular, and/or a desire to see local businesses thrive. (Neither of which would ever motivate me to subject myself to advertisements.)

Sure, sensible. In the case of the ad industry, I don't appreciate the people who work there in particular, and I have a desire to see those businesses driven from the face of the Earth.

You and I are on the same page here.

Your solution is to further overload the police and prison systems?

If we as humans went bankrupt, it was when we decided to start having the government police what substances people can and cannot use.

The opioid crisis is out of control. Even mussels are ODing.

I think it's a bit of both.

American society indoctrinates people with the negative aspects of labor unions. They're run by radicals or the Mafia, they have rules which limit innovation, hold back talented individuals, sanction goldbricking, and on and on. The pro-union side of things is not often promoted in the mainstream.

When the pro-union side of the story is promoted, it's usually in a context where a company was doing something extremely bad to extremely vulnerable people. It's a tough sell to convince an engineer that they're in the same position as an early 20th century lumberjack or coal miner.

I've known people in tech who think of themselves as self-made people and so they further don't like the idea of collective bargaining on a philosophical level.

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