The fact that handlers can fake a “hit” wherever and whenever they want is the entire point, and also the reason they resist moving over to technical solutions. Those technologies also come with logging, which is another point against them as far as cops are concerned.
It’s always been about control and cruelty.
I’m 100% remote and intend to stay that way, but there’s definitely a subset of workers for whom in-office is better - either because they don’t have the space at home for a dedicated office, they work better in an office environment, they have small kids at home who would interrupt work, and so on.
The problem is really that companies don’t seem to want to give people a choice to do what works best for them, their position, or their team. Where it’s possible to WFH that should be the default offering.
Compensated at the expense of whom though?
The taxpayers? Sure, there’s an argument for reparations and pumping money into forcing systemic change.
College students competing for a limited number of slots to schools? I’m less convinced of this, it’s a zero-sum game where if you’re admitting one person you’re denying others from that slot.
IMO there’s probably better ways you could incentivize colleges to aim for a diverse student body that would be more equitable. The goal should equality of opportunity, not equality of outcomes.
The bigger problem with student debt relief is that it doesn’t solve the problem of how that debt is generated in the first place. By all means we should forgive a bunch of federal student debt, even buy out private student loans, but the problem will just start building up again until we’re in an untenable debt situation again in the future. It’s kicking the can down the road, the same complaint that a lot of people in favor of student debt relief have about the US debt ceiling discussion.
The perverse economic incentives right now push lenders to loan out as much as possible, and that drives cost bloat at the university level as they expand their cost structure to capture more and more of the available money lent out for education. What I’d like to see is debt relief paired with actual fixes, such as making student debt (either private or both federal and private) dischargeable by bankruptcy.
Metal Gear Sold - merchant game in the style of steampunk Stardew Valley
Relevant part of the article - they’re not going near AWS or the entertainment/filming side of things, just the retail side it looks like.
Even if Amazon loses every part of a lawsuit like this it won’t materially affect their bottom line, so the headline seems like clickbait to me.