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Don't use it? How can I do that when I'm legally forced to do so?


I’ve worked in unionised industries in two countries and neither required union membership, it was optional.

I can’t speak for everywhere though. Maybe you can provide a reference showing that your local legislation works this way?


It seems to me you were supporting the op when he said

>It could be nice if companies would be forced to set up collective workers representation entities when they reach a certain numbers of employees, where I am the limit is of 50 employees, then you must have a collective representation

So if that was the case, how can I work for a large company without such workers representation?


What the OP is describing is that the company must provide a way for it's staff to join a union that they recognise. The individual staff members are still free to choose whether or not they want to join.


No thanks, please stop forcing me to be unemployed.


>There would be no avenue at all for someone to make money on the actual content.

Except this is trivially disprovable by simply looking at YouTube.

Copyright plays essentially zero role in the business models of the vast majority of sucessful youtubers, and it is arguably a platform that is far more sucessful than traditional media at producing high quality, relevant content.

Sure, if you get rid of copyright some business models will no longer be possible... but some new business models will now be viable.

You wouldn't argue "we have to protect the baby crushing machine industry because if we don't then the baby crushers won't have a job", so why are you making that argument for copyright?


Copyright hasn't stopped rampant piracy and bootlegging either, but a lot of that is due to super annoying or unavailable legal ways to stream/acquire the same content.


That seems to indicate to me that the original work is actually not under copyright, since if it is the only method of achieving such an image in such a style, then there is no originality to be copyrighted.


Good thing population is reducing, isn't it?


Even if we conveniently assume that all the people of the future smaller population have it in them to do the jobs AI is not yet good enough at (and none of them are would-be copywriters because that's where their skill ceiling is), surely the game-theoretical shift from "if you, aspiring original writer, don't make it for some reason or another, you'll have to settle for a lower-prestige/-pay writing job" to "...you'll actually be stuck with none of the skills you acquired being of particular value to anyone". Writing as a career would assume a risk profile more akin to trying to become a K-pop idol.


There are no legitimate reasons to go on my property.


Nonsense. Property ownership is not absolute.

If the police can convince a judge that there is probably cause to believe that a crime is being committed on your property and to give them a warrant, that would be a legitimate reason to go to your property.


So are you going to be protesting against the democratic party for doing so in 2016?


Except that's not true.

At the end of the day all stock market returns come from one's of 3 things:

Dividends

Earnings per Share growth

Multiple expansion

Over the long run the speculation that you so decry ( which amounts to Multiple expansion) has a negligible impact (less than 1%).

Sure you have plenty of short term booms and busts, but over the long term they are really irrelevant.


> At the end of the day all stock market returns come from one's of 3 things

None of which really reflect reality, and rely on basically pure speculation.

They also depend on the stock to go up up up up.

> Over the long run the speculation that you so decry ( which amounts to Multiple expansion) has a negligible impact (less than 1%).

Over the long run stocks are just speculation.


I disagree that the others are 100% pure speculation, but let's just look at the case of dividends.

Dividends (especially for companies with a long track record of paying and increasing them) are reality as far as I can tell.


Huh? How do dividends depend on “stock to go up up up”? That’s opposite of my experience. How does EPS have anything to do with stock price? I think you have it all backwards.

Stock PICKing is speculative because we can’t predict the future. But that doesn’t mean that the future is unhinged from underlying fundamentals.


Dividends and EPS are real and don't rely on stock movement at all. It's the exact opposite where they drive stock movement.


Of course they reflect build costs, as well as regulatory costs...


From personal experience cost of living in portugal is in line with germany.


I'm not sure Germany is famous for its good weather nor good food, but I've only visited a couple of times, never lived there, maybe I missed out on something obvious?


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