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Auth@lemmy.worldto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Epstein puts my morality into perspectiveEnglish1·7 hours agoIts not though. The employee is far more likely to win the wage theft case than the union firing case and I just think its wrong to try and dissuade people from fighting this issue. Its actively harmful to people to push that kind of a narrative.
Auth@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•To survive the AI age, the web needs a new business modelEnglish1·7 hours agoSomeone I don’t know making a website I didn’t ask for isn’t doing anything for me, and doesn’t have my agreement or consent.
Yes they are, they are hosting a website which you’re visting to presumably consume some of the content or use in some way. They dont need your agreement or consent, you are choosing to vist the website. Just to be clear we arent talking about paying websites you dont vist. We are specifically talking about websites like a blog
Auth@lemmy.worldto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Epstein puts my morality into perspectiveEnglish1·7 hours agoBeing fired for forming a union is a completely different case than committing wage theft then firing your employee for bringing it up.
Auth@lemmy.worldto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Epstein puts my morality into perspectiveEnglish1·10 hours agoUnionization is great but thats a much bigger ask and far less likely to suceed. And risker as the employee can be fired with no protection as soon as they’re found trying to unionize.
I think employees should be trying to unionize as a default and then if they’re the victim of wage theft seek legal recourse.
compared to the other foss alternatives its the best we got by a long long way. Unless signal is foss then its the best.
Auth@lemmy.worldto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Epstein puts my morality into perspectiveEnglish1·1 day agoNo, lets be clear wage theft covers a lot of things. Here we are talking about a very specific situation where an employer is clearly violating the FLSA. You can even see it in this thread, so many people dont even believe that its illegal. So they dont even know they can sue for it.
“they’re going to find an arbitrary reason, or better yet write down “I didn’t like that person” because it’s a right to work state and even in non right to work states” nah that does not hold up in court. A judge isnt going to look at an employer getting sued for wage theft and then said oh i guess you just happened to fire this person. Nah thats never goign to hold up. Also yes US labor laws are fucking dogshit but they exist.
Auth@lemmy.worldto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Epstein puts my morality into perspectiveEnglish1·1 day agoDo you seriously think people aren’t winning these kind of cases? FLSA cases get won all the time. Also its different because wage theft is illegal but trump can legally rape kids according to the supreme court.
Auth@lemmy.worldto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Epstein puts my morality into perspectiveEnglish1·1 day agoSo you’re telling me that the waitress earning $2 hr + $3 per hour in tips will be getting paid $5 an hour and not $7.25? If thats the case, then thats wage theft and its illegal and she should find a lawyer who will sue that employer.
Auth@lemmy.worldto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Epstein puts my morality into perspectiveEnglish1·1 day agoWhat the fuck is your point? “What happens if they find out im suing them” If your employer doesn’t pay you correctly and then fires you when you seek legal action they are fucked under the Fair Labor Standards Act. They’ve just increased their fine from up to 10k to add another 25k.
I actually perplexed why people are pushing back against my claim that people should seek to protect their federally protected work rights. The examples that have been brought up are open and shut cases that will be picked up by any law firm and they will sue for recomp + damages + lawyer fees. Yes its “harder” than doing nothing, but by doing nothing you do not fix the problem and continue to be exploited. There is no magic eye that can perfectly detect illegal activity its up to the victim to come forward and make their case thats how law works in our society.
Auth@lemmy.worldto Fediverse@lemmy.world•Lemmy User Feedback and Improvement Thread: Share Your Complaints, Suggestions, and IdeasEnglish12·1 day agoThe ability to block posts by keyword would be nice. The ability to merge communities and have lemmy move the subscriptions over to the merged community, mastodon does something similar with moving accounts so it is possible.
Auth@lemmy.worldto Fediverse@lemmy.world•Lemmy User Feedback and Improvement Thread: Share Your Complaints, Suggestions, and IdeasEnglish6·1 day agoThis is a valid complaint in an ideal world, but in our current world this happens with every other site that has the same discussion model as lemmy. Your posts are not gone when you delete them on reddit. Reddit has a ton of mirrors and reddit themselves will never delete your post.
Personally I’d rather see lemmy grow as it is rather than die try the extremely tough task of building a good federated privacy protocol. The privacy on lemmy comes from being able to create an account while providing no info, being able to access from TOR. People seeing your public posts is debatably even a privacy issue.
Auth@lemmy.worldto Fediverse@lemmy.world•Lemmy User Feedback and Improvement Thread: Share Your Complaints, Suggestions, and IdeasEnglish2·1 day agoTry All + scaled it order active posts and scales it so its not dominated by large communties… Also yeah its expected large communities will dominate an all inclusive feed. They product the most content and have the most users.
Auth@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What was something that you thought was overhyped that actually lived up to the hype?English1·1 day agoNot just monero but crypto. Any darkweb market place, most privacy services, a ton of small online sellers accept it as payment for goods. You can buy cards, houses coffees with crypto now. Its not wide spread enough to not have a bank account but you can make a decent amount of payments with it these days especially online.
Auth@lemmy.worldto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Epstein puts my morality into perspectiveEnglish1·1 day agoYes they do receive a min wage its just lower than what they receive through tips and thats why they dont want to get rid of it. Look at any other country for what happens when you dont tip. I will never tip out of principle.
Auth@lemmy.worldto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Epstein puts my morality into perspectiveEnglish1·1 day agoI’m sorry how is this relevant?
Auth@lemmy.worldto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Epstein puts my morality into perspectiveEnglish1·1 day agoFor a wage theft case you would not need to pay a lawyer. There are plenty of lawyers that seek out these cases and pay themselves off the settlement. You would need to do is book a meeting and explain the case and show up in court once if you boss was stupid enough to fight it. Thats not a wildly impossible set of steps to take.
Auth@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What was something that you thought was overhyped that actually lived up to the hype?English1·1 day agoI’m seriously concerned for when someone comes in contact with you and asks for your source when you’re discussing something
How often does someone ask for a source? I dont know any redditors IRL. At the moment AI is great for quickly finding the answers to common questions. In a few years it will likely be a realiable source for almost all questions.
Also AI does list sources now. So if I ask then it can find the answer and link where that answer came from. If I really needed to double check its work.
For blockchain stuff I shouldnt have said involved I should have said control. A 3rd party is involved in the transactions but no 3rd party controls it.
Auth@lemmy.worldto Leopards Ate My Face@lemmy.world•Joe Rogan's friends followed him to Texas. They all seem to hate it.English21·2 days agoIf you didnt get the job then its not being canceled but in this case Shane did get the job. Anyway no one cares about it, its just something that he laughs about on his podcast.
Auth@lemmy.worldto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Epstein puts my morality into perspectiveEnglish11·2 days agoIts up to the employee to ensure they do not get away with it.
This is literally victim blaming.
No its not. Crime is not magically detected by the all seeing eye. If someone commits a crime against you then its in your best interest to report it because it sure wont be the criminal who is reporting it.
it is that they will take advantage of the convoluted system in order to exploit the vulnerable and desperate workers they are responsible for.
Even if this is what I said (which it isnt) that still doesnt give a reason why employees shouldnt seek legal recourse and it just proves what I am saying even more. IF employers were so confortable explotiing this system then the only reason that would be is because they dont expect the workers to take any action against them. You’re the only one here saying workers should take no action against their employer who is taking their wages. Actually in one of your comments you said they should “protest until the boss wont do it anymore” which is a terrible suggestion.
You’re intentionally trolling and im done feeding you.
Play Squad where you can easily spend 10 mins running to the next objective because your SL is to dumb to call for a heli or organize a ride.