Every web server logs request information. Is that spying on you too? If you go to a website, they aren't "spying" on you, you are volunteering your information to them. Stop hitting yourself.
How does it protect online news websites to prevent people from sharing links to their articles on social media? That's a major discovery mechanism for their content.
>The United States is one of just a handful of countries — others include India, Pakistan, Suriname, and Papua New Guinea — that have no national policy guaranteeing workers paid annual leave. (It’s also among the few with no federal laws guaranteeing paid parental leave or paid sick days.) Any benefit offered to workers, like paid time off, is entirely up to the discretion of private employers.
It's not "up to the discretion of private employers". It is up to the contractual arrangement between an employee and his employer.
The USA is a huge place. It isn't obvious to me that there should be national laws for things like this. This is exactly the sort of thing you'd expect to be set on a state-by-state basis.
It seems that there could be at least a minimum, something like 5 days. If not, what demographic factors in a state would you consider valid to deny any paid time off?
If they don't have paid time off then clearly they don't value it. Any state legislature could pass legislation creating that rule. Maybe let people democratically choose their own rules
Why is a federal rule undemocratic but a state rule democratic? If the federal government ran with that as part of their platform that would be democratic, no?
Fundamental worker rights should be covered in a national law. The EU is huge as well, and economically and culturally and order of magnitude more diverse than the US, and every worker in the EU is entitled to at least 4 weeks of paid time off. I don't see why this wouldn't be possible in the US.
There are also countries that are much richer than the US, yet they still have stronger worker protections. Unless the US is some sort of Goldilocks country, with just the right combination of development and size, then there's no reason why it can't have things like nationally mandated paid time off.
Luxembourg, Norway and Switzerland have substantially higher GDP/capita than the US.
As for median income, I think you're looking at income net of taxes, because I'm fairly certain that median gross income is higher in Luxembourg and Norway (and in Switzerland) than in the US. If you're looking at net income, you also have to factor in what those taxes do to improve quality of life (a huge amount, if we're talking about the three countries I mention above).
Idk, I get 6 weeks of PTO a year and I make a hell of a lot more money than Europeans do.
Just because the mandated minimum PTO is 0 doesn't mean everyone has 0 days PTO. Minimum wage is another example - the federal minimum wage is really low but the median income in America is higher than in Europe.
We just don't have the same approach to government regulations.
Making rules at the right level that makes sense is not "oppression". Is it oppressive that you local city council manages rubbish collection and not your national government? Is it oppressive that you have a national military and not an EU military?
I don't think that's really so meaningful. If not for 'capitalism' (which is a pretty vague term anyway) we wouldn't have these websites. There would be one version of most if not all of these products. That's what you'd get, and nothing else.
I might be wrong about Netflix, I have not watched it in a long time. But certainly many pay channels, pay sports networks, and pay streaming services also have ads. Sometimes skipable, sometimes not.
Your intellectual inconsistency is amusing. You believe in intellectual property but not stochastic terrorisim, even though both are just created concepts to explain things that people believe exist.
That is a truly bizarre thing to say. Do you believe that everything with a name exists? If I say the words "the great replacement" does that mean that it actually exists? If I say "COVID-19 lab leak" does that confirm the truth of that theory too?
I tried saying "my enormous wealth" a few times, but I'm still not enormously wealthy. Do you have any tips for how I can learn to make things true just by referring to them?
To be more serious: "stochastic terrorism" is nonsensical because it attributes to a person some act that is not his responsibility. It doesn't matter how large your audience is or what you suspect they might do with the information: saying "this hospital performs masectomies on teenage girls" will never be a terrorist act, even if some audience member allegedly called in a bomb threat later. In no way, shape, or form is that act attributable to him. If you say something, and someone reacts by doing something, that is not your fault, and never will be.
