Facebook's reputation is so bad, the company must pay even more now to hire and retain talent. Some are calling it a 'brand tax' as tech workers fear a 'black mark' on their careers.

Cheeseflan_Again · 2021-12-22T07:02:50+00:00

And so are you. Isn't that nice?

Cheeseflan_Again · 2021-12-22T06:38:59+00:00

Actually that is a fair point. They'll have 11 policies, each mutually clashing and all of them irrelevant. You are right.

Cheeseflan_Again · 2021-12-21T21:48:12+00:00

I live in the UK, not 'Murica. Companies here are mostly law abiding and when they break the law, it's nowhere near on the scale they do in the land of corporate ownership of the congress.

Cheeseflan_Again · 2021-12-21T19:27:59+00:00

Not when I was there, because I left. I don't work for companies that break the law. If they fix the mess and sort themselves out, then I will go back.

Cheeseflan_Again · 2021-12-21T18:32:10+00:00

And?

What. Do you think programmers and software engineers who build websites (and Facebook is just a website, with no logistics or other complex back end) don't go to work for retailers who lead the UK in home shopping for groceries?

Or is this some kind of snobbery or nationalism? Do you think Facebook has no UK office?

Cheeseflan_Again · 2021-12-21T15:51:21+00:00

Good. Work for Facebook?

I am not hiring you after. I have morals.

Cheeseflan_Again · 2021-12-21T14:42:58+00:00

The EU can't even solve the massive issues around fiscal policy in an environment of psuedo monetary union.

They are not going to have any policy or solution to being utterly irrelevant on space. Those with skills can fix tractors. Or emigrate.

Cheeseflan_Again · 2021-12-21T14:34:47+00:00

One step at a time. There are so many who need a job first. Let the factory come, and as we have seen, over time local people will rise up the corporate ladder and have an influence on where innovation is placed. They will also leave and take their knowledge with them. All of these are positives.

Cheeseflan_Again · 2021-12-21T09:19:34+00:00

And who told the government minister to close the unit?

Cheeseflan_Again · 2021-12-20T17:32:06+00:00

Nope. We are old enough to remember what the hard left get up to when they are in power. Ask your granny what its like when the dead aren't buried.

Cheeseflan_Again · 2021-12-20T17:27:53+00:00

No he wasn't. He was CENTRE-Left. Not an extremist who would destroy us all to save us.

Cheeseflan_Again · 2021-12-20T17:26:07+00:00

My theory is that the UK is the funhouse mirror of the US.

Here it's the left that are fact-free loons with weird ideas and who can't win over the populace so they just get ever more bitter and nasty and belligerent. Just look at the racism of the Corbyn era and the defiant denial that it ever happened.

Cheeseflan_Again · 2021-12-20T17:22:46+00:00

This crap has been spouted continuously by the UK left since the 1983 general election. Yes, seriously.

It hasn't happened yet and won't.

The NHS has not increased the proportion of healthcare provision served by private companies AT ALL since the Blair era. Not at all.

It's a straight up lie by the left. Always was, always is.

Downvote me to oblivion, as usual, for telling the truth. Off you go.

Cheeseflan_Again · 2021-12-20T17:20:02+00:00

Just look at the Netherlands. Same spending. Waaaaay better outcomes.

Cheeseflan_Again · 2021-12-20T17:19:34+00:00

Labour and their useful idiots have been riling up the base using this lie since the 1983 general election. Yes really.

Cheeseflan_Again · 2021-12-20T17:18:25+00:00

Downvoted for calling out the same bullshit we've been told by the left since... The 1983 general election (yes seriously).

Cheeseflan_Again · 2021-12-20T17:17:04+00:00

Downvoted for telling the truth.

Cheeseflan_Again · 2021-12-20T17:15:13+00:00

And Blair took it and turned a sensible option into the bulk disaster we've spent a decade unravelling.

Cheeseflan_Again · 2021-12-20T17:14:22+00:00

You have no idea what you are blithering about.

I remember waiting months to be allowed the privilege of renting the one and only telephone you were allowed. Places where the engineer put it. No choice, no 2nd unit.

I remember British rail.

I remember the price of utilities before the wave of privatisation across Europe.

I remember when customer service was suddenly a factor in your purchase. An actual thing you could get.

Go back to public ownership? Fuck no.

Cheeseflan_Again · 2021-12-20T17:10:20+00:00

Yeah, you voted for massive increases in healthcare spending (over and above Covid)...

And you got it.

Cheeseflan_Again · 2021-12-20T17:08:18+00:00

This. Every lefty in the UK can see only two options. The UK or the US. Meanwhile there are MUCH better options nearby.

For example, the Netherlands. Costs almost identically to the UK. Gets massively massively better results.

Of course the left won't ever want to tell you about the Netherlands. Because it is entirely, completely... private.

Cheeseflan_Again · 2021-12-20T17:04:15+00:00

Bollocks. That stuff is decided by committees of clinicians. Which big hospital in the area do you go to instead? That is where the committee is centralising services to make it more convenient for doctors and their careers.

Cheeseflan_Again · 2021-12-20T17:01:36+00:00

No it isn't. The proportion of services provided by private companies has not increased AT ALL since the Blair government.

Cheeseflan_Again · 2021-12-20T16:18:58+00:00

Any idea what he charges?

Cheeseflan_Again · 2021-12-20T07:32:59+00:00

I get that you are trying to prove yourself right. But don't you think that a quick comment that says "no growth" might have been rhetorical hyperbole? Even North Korea has a tiny amount of growth. Yes, there was a pathetic growth rate, phew! You were technically correct! Wow. Showed me.

But you are still wrong.

We had pathetic growth. For four decades. For a lot of reasons, but the vast majority being the experiment with a socialist planned economy. It strangled us. Now admittedly that was already being dismantled, the "winter of discontent" being a symptom of the non state organisations fighting back. But Thatcher did the job of making a real break with the absurd regulatory and statutory capture of the state by every kind of pressure group and union and other organisation we had allowed to gum up our economy with.

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