Does that make sense? I feel my argument is lacking common sense I’m not seeing.

There’s a couple issues with it. For specialized trainings, you’ll only have a few people with them, and with vacations you’ll need more. Training costs money.

People will not work harder to cover. Longer, sometimes. Harder, rarely. The company still needs to make certain timelines. There’s an extent to witch employees can work “harder”. The more people off, the less you can just cover it with working harder.

If you’re not going to hire people, the longer hours the employees work to do the work will be paid at over time rates. Those are not cheap

As much As I agree that pto needs to be required, it’s simply pure white collar thinking to think that more people don’t need to be hired to cover for vacations. In blue collar, labor jobs, the employer needs to hire temp workers (as my area does) or give other employees considerably more hours(some locals have flex employees that do pt most of the year and ft during vacation periods). The employer is out the wages it costs to pay the cover, it is not free. And the employer should be paying that.

…yeah because you said genocide was special to western countries… I’m not some “the whites are getting genocided” person. You denied the genocides perpetrated by other countries and said it was special to typical white countries with a very clear implication.

You started this saying that most countries had been FOUNDED on genocides

I clarified in another comment I meant had done genocide, not founded on it. And yes, most. Not every.

it’s very normal that a nation has had an uninterrupted body of government after they either completely or partially eradicated the native population

I’m not saying it’s good. Quite the opposite in fact. I want People to just understand it’s not some united states special. However, it is much more more typical than people want to think it is

I never referred to it as unavoidable. That was you making things up. It is avoidable, as long as we work together to stop it

These countries get on their high horse when they have an exceptionally genocidal history.

My point was meant to point out how countries with genocidal histories like to point out others as the ones to avoid repeating examples of rather than their own history.

You’re being straight up racist assuming it’s only white western countries commit genocides.

There’s been no genocide in China

Oh I’m sorry, I didn’t realize I was talking to a tankie. Carry on.

proceeded to link to a NATOpedia page that fails to list a whole bunch of European/US genocides and even then is short, oh, about 96% of countries on earth.

Natopedia is a hilarious take

I’m well aware it was not an exhaustive list.

To say that every country has been founded via genocide is to imply this is just a normal, unavoidable thing, which is genocide apologia

It’s not. I never said that.

I wish westerners would stop whitewashing their Nazi ass societies like smearing the rest of us is a good alternative to doing something about the legacy of violence you were raised by.

Wow, racist much?

I was talking about the Japanese in Korea, actually

Somali, Chile, Argentina, south Africa, Japan, Korea, China. It’s horrifyingly common no matter what area.

Also, what part of genocide do you think is about being civilized…?

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…wait, you thought this was a defense? I’m sorry, perhaps I worded it poorly then.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_of_indigenous_peoples

What makes you think it’s not true? A gander through the history of genocide shows how horrifyingly common it is

I was more referring to general genocide than specifically native populations–but even that there is no shortage of countries like Australia, Canada, and japan that have done as such.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_of_indigenous_peoples

There is a depressingly high number.

I hate to tell you this, but basically every country has the same story, except the very young. They don’t need to learn from our history; they should learn from their own.

Imagine portraying trump as anything but dementiaed. You know he posts a about razing all of gaza to the ground to build a resort, right?

Chromebooks that schools use don’t have any computing power to speak of. There’s none to lose

A Chromebook for school kids costs around $200 when I was in school 5 years ago… A normal computer would cost closer to 500

That’s not cheap. Schools can’t afford that. The kids know better.

Yeah that’s one of the things that stood out as what the hell… the companies already have the data, if ICE wanted it legally they shouldn’t need to pay… Really shows how shady they’re being.

the low skill manufacturing jobs they took were going to leave the US anyway.

… Yes and no. A lot of junk, sure. But there was no necessity to move much of large scale manufacturing over—the primary reason it happened was rampant consumerism desiring the cheapness that lower standards brought, without regard to workers or the ability of the national economy to have a modern strength against foreign influence.

Production is fully capable to have been kept in the usa for a lot of products, as long as people were willing to buy less. It’d have been a greater benefit to our economy and the environment overall.

But tariffs aren’t the answer here - instead, the answer is to support local industries by giving them government contracts to produce their goods, which the government can then use and/or stockpile when we aren’t in a time of crisis.

Tariffs are an important tool. They should never be the only tool used from the tool box. But nonetheless, they’re important to disincentive the moving away manufacturing based just on wages. They make products more expensive, allowing local products to survive more easily —but if you rely on them too heavily, your local industries become stagnant.

Most goods are not reasonable to spend government money on as well. That works great for medical goods and food, but not much else.

That’s just the forward march of technological progress.

When companies like Amazon use that logic to cut wages to half of competition… I got a problem.

Hear! Hear!

America gave china the manufacturing jobs by failing to block slave labor imports and failing to put proper tariffs to account for differences in cost of living to a reasonable extent. I say this at risk of sounding like a trumpy…

This is to be clear that while I advocate for some level of global inter investment, having capacity in your home country is ever very important. Usa could’ve kept the jobs if they were smart back then.