naw, my point is they generally have it pretty shitty everywhere. i used the term agency for reason.
sure here or there will have a specific better feature, like healthcare, but then thats offset by the incredible violence domestic or otherwise in that same region
I'm confused why this is an unpopular sentiment. Surely we agree patriarchy is an unjust and almost universal force in our world? Some places are better and worse for womens rights... But doesnt every major religion basically dictate that women are not and cannot be equal?
whole countries convince women that they are supposed to be second class citizens. rape is their fault. education is haphazard at best. killed at birth for being female.
the world over, women generally have it worse off than males. this is not a controversy, but a statement of fact.
Yet this looks like the path a large portion of the states are heading towards. There are tons of cases of rape and victim blaming, and that's only the ones that get news articles or documentaries judging by the huge rape kit backlog that nobody with any power or authority cares about
Absolutely. Most people outside US fail to realize that a bunch of states are bigger than most countries on this planet and Texas does not define America.
There's more to the story than the headline. Separation costs from his wife (a lawyer), plus child maintenance, plus burnout from lots of different roles. It's not just the mortgage payments.
If I understand high salary taxation correctly, there are no tax bands above £100K and you just pay 40% on the lot, which makes his take-home net £6K/month, of which a £2K mortgage is one third. I'm managing OK with my mortgage being one third of my net takehome. But I don't have an angry lawyer ex-wife and child maintenance to pay, or a stressful job.
Maybe mortgage increases were the last straw for him. But they are not the only reason for him quitting.
Actually the 100-120k bracket is effectively a 60% tax band as you lose your tax free allowance, then 45% on incomes over 125k.
Compared to other members of that government that mostly earn through investments taxed at 20% (capital gains tax) he is doing a lot worse.
Every office worker has a commute. The commute is just money wasted. The employee needs to consider the commute in the time they actually spend for work. So the employer ultimately pays for the commute, as an employee would always choose the shorter commute if the work conditions are otherwise equal.
By removing the commute, employers get the same productive working time. They give the workers a pay increase, because the total time commited to work is reduced and the costs for the company are often zero or even negative, as they can start closing down offices, dont pay for electricity and so on. With commutes often in the area of 1 hour per way, that means a 25% raise by comparing total time spent for work.
To think about it. A return to office mandate is a significant pay cut to the employee, yet the employer still has to pay the same labor costs and often also increase other costs related to the labor.
It only makes sense in companies, where the performance working from home is extremely lower than the performance working at the office. This is an indication of severe missmanagement and a company set to fail sooner or later. if only the whip of the managers is making people work, the companies culture is fucked.
It goes even deeper than you mention. If you have fewer people commuting, you have less pressure on the methods of commuting - roadways and public transit require implementation and maintenance, which is paid for by taxes. Less demand on those infrastructure things, and the public expense for those things also gets smaller, or you get better infrastructure. Crowded commuting makes transit longer and more stressful for people who do have to physically be somewhere, not to mention for commercial travel and emergency services. Then there's the expense of the unnecessary pollution generated by unnecessary commuting.
Then there's the ability for companies to have a vastly wider pool of workers if they're not tied so tightly to people who live within commuting distance of an office, not to mention workers having a wider choice of employers. Not only does this allow business and labor to fine tune more for better outcomes on both sides, it has a secondary effect of allowing wealth to transfer from high cost of living areas to lower ones, which contributes to a stronger overall economy, in which secondary businesses which serve people where they are (entertainment, restaurants, telecommunications), and in the long term can support people's ability to choose to live outside of metropolitan areas, further reducing overcrowding in terms of housing and public infrastructure, pollution, and the like.
The more people who can work remotely, the better off we will all be.
thats not even the start. Offices cost money. The larger the office the more they cost. So just keeping a smaller emergency office or using an office share membership for workers that need it will save money.
After reporting a bullying incident I was physically threatened by said bully. Later the same day I had another student shouting in my face refusing to make any attempt at the task despite giving one to one assistance and help all year. They're capable they just don't believe it themselves.
I teach English classes in an open area, as the school doesnt have enough class rooms, where those who choose not to attend classes barge their way into my teaching space to disrupt the learning and the pupils in my class spend more time on their phones than making any attempt to improve their literacy skills.
You try and build a curriculum that is relevant, differentiated and interesting but building a working relationship with some students is sometimes impossible for a variety of reasons.
You follow the behaviour policy of the school, your boss contacts home, has meetings, discussions with management but nothing will change until they hit near school leaving age and suddenly they need some qualifications where you have to basically do the work for them to get some bottom of the barrel nonsense piece of paper. Sometimes they don't even get that and you wonder, what are they going to do with their life, or how long will it be until they are a convicted criminal?
But then you have a kid that thanks you, is kind and considerate, works their butt off and becomes the first member of their family to go to uni, becomes a Dr or starts their own business. Thats what makes it all worth while.
90% of the time you're in the trenches fighting fires. But there are some moments you are reminded you are making a difference. You need to hold onto those moments for dear life, because if you dont, this profession will destroy you mentally if not physically through bad habits and substance abuse. Lots of kids do notice the good you are doing, but most don't want to say anything or even do anything to be seen as different from others.
This just in, Israel says the child was Hamas. The US has said they’ve seen the proof and agree. Biden has promised more bombs to deal with the other children.
The crazy thing is how they don't see how this will only make the view of those educated in Florida as less than that of say NY. Companies like, Google, are pretty selective and if this part of their education is gone this isn't going to give anyone a leg up in the selection process but rather will explain why graduates from FL have a harder time getting along with, relating to, and working with their team members.
Not going to lie, if I had an application on my desk that came from a Floridian, I'd check them very closely to see if they're sane. Besides potentially having a lacking education.
I made the same mistake a few months ago. There was some emergency and a minister called for the closure of a whole region or somesuch and I had the same response. "What the fuck, Canadian pastors have way too much power. I thought it was bad in America."
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