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Obviously sometimes a business is unsustainable, and it's unavoidable, but it's pretty sociopathic to not consider that people are harmed by being laid off.

They are literally not harmed. The end of an at-will employment agreement is not a harm.

>The end of an at-will employment agreement is not a harm.

So if you got fired tomorrow for no reason in particular, you would not feel "harmed"? No family to support, bills to pay, or career to progress cut short? No trips nor big purchases that need to be re-planed or cancelled? No obligations you need to cancel because last week you were fine and this week it's all about scambling for a new job? This is the most asinine thing I've heard here yet.

I didn't have a choice in my society on what contract to take. And the power dynamic is unequal. I don't consider being suddenly laid off as "harmless" with that in mind.


They were at-will employment. That should have been considered with their every purchasing decision ever. Their personal and moral failures is not their employers failures.

Budgeting is trivial thing. Spend less than you earn. And it is not like these were minimum wage workers. They should have known to have plenty of buffers at this point. It is entirely their own fault of not reach that point.


You didn’t answer how you would feel if you are fired tomorrow friday?

I didn't know, guessing some others don't either:

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Laws in the era of lawlessness. Laws never really stopped all crimes anyways.

What was it meant to process? Why have some of us evolved tolerance for lactose?


Fruits, roots and vegetables. A tolerance for lactose is not an indication of optimal human food.


I mean, some animals have evolved to thrive in post Chernobyl disaster Pripyat. No other animal consumes the milk of another species of animal.


What role did you specifically play in your country's nationalization of healthcare?


Maybe not that person above, but I’ve continually voted in support of it and initiatives to expand it


EVs or vehicles generally?


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Who ever credibly claims that cameras prevent crime though?


But they found him? If he was alive, he probably would have been caught eventually, no?


Maybe. The average homicide clearance rate in the US is only around 60%. But that includes a lot of killings where nobody really cares about anyone involved. This was a much higher profile crime so it would get a lot more attention. But there are high profile cases that get a lot of (at least local) attention that don't ever get solved either.


It is really difficult to ascertain motive and suspects when it’s a chronic homeless case getting murdered. It could be a thing from drugs to just looking at a crazy guy wrong one night, you literally have no leads unless there is a video or some other piece of hard evidence. It isn’t really about caring, judt that the environment they live in is so chaotic and uncontrolled that you’d have a suspect pool that is too big to reasonably investigate.


Sorry, to make my point more clear: They knew the identity of the killer, and this is part of how they found his dead body. If he hadn't killed himself, they would have found him regardless, since they knew who he was, and knew the license plate of the car he was driving.


I mean I guess all criminals die or are caught, yes.


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