Excellent idea. I would love something like this but for property reviews for renters. Ideally an open source self-hosted platform that communities can use to keep landlords in check. It would be more complicated, of course, due to a number of reasons, but a step forward.
We let businesses exist for one reason, so people can actually live (and I say let, because it is society - that is, its individuals - that has a put a system in place whereby such entities can exist and do what they do). If a job doesn't pay enough for that, the business isn't worth keeping around from the society's point of view. Workers should be paid decently, no matter what — profits or no profits. If an industry or company can't afford to pay fair wages, it’s not worth having, plain and simple.
On top of fair pay, companies owe their employees more. Businesses don't exist in a vacuum—they're tools we use to make life better for everyone. The entire economy is just a system we built to serve people, not the other way around.
Right now, companies often act like mini-dictatorships, where the tradeoff — giving up freedoms in exchange for money — ends up hurting society even if it props up the economy.
In short: if a company isn't contributing positively, it's failing at its purpose and should either disappear, or forced to fulfill its role.
This is a legitimate, reasonable way to assess whether a document should be published or not. However, it's also a very potent method to stir up shit and cause inadvertent social crises rather than scrutinise power in all its forms and inform the public, which are arguably the main roles of journalism.
Interesting, and lovely UI. But I wonder if there's truly a market for it since solutions like Laragon exist and do all that, and then some. I may not see the whole picture here.
Absolutely. I have, in fact, done that for exactly the reason(s) you mentioned in your comment. There's a limited amount of time in my life, which I want to have real control over and spend it with the people that matter to me, and doing the things that matter to me.
I disagree with that, and there are more ways to look at it, I suppose.
One aspect is that time matters more as long as you're able to keep alive, healthy and live a meaningful existence. All which are possible without "more than enough money".
Another is that, depending on a number of circumstances (many of which may be personal), time may matter more regardless of everything else.
Well you always need "enough money". What that means is indeed personal.
Some people are happy with very little, even happy to, say, live off-grid or stuff like that.
But, IMHO, it's hard to be happy when you have to watch your spending all the time or can't afford to do many things. That does not mean you have to spend your life chasing money but there has to be a balance, which is a personal preference.
This is true. But unless one close to poverty or have some fixed obligations (like care for person with special needs) there is always a way to cut 25%. Smaller house, less unnecessary buying, etc.
I’m not saying it is a way to go, but for some people it looks attractive.
I would say it's not realistic for the majority of people, unless they happen to be robots.
"The eight-hour workday is not based on the optimal number of hours a human can concentrate. In fact, it has almost nothing to do with the kind of work most people do now: Its origins lie in the Industrial Revolution, not the Information Age." [0]
"Would you like to have 4 hours workdays? That's the question really. We know that we're spending less than 40% of our workday actually working, but would you be willing to sacrifice what you do on that extra 60% just to end your day sooner? [1]"
"The 8-hour workday has been the norm for more than a century, but employee surveys suggest that most people are truly productive only for about three hours every day. This has led to calls for the workday to be reduced to five or six hours, with proponents saying it would increase employee wellbeing, and ultimately productivity." [2]
"Mexico—the least productive of the 38 countries listed in 2015 data from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)—has the world’s longest average work week at 41.2 hours (including full-time and part-time workers). At the other end of the spectrum, Luxembourg, the most productive country, has an average workweek of just 29 hours." [3]
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