At the time, Seattle was debating an increase to the minimum wage to $15, making it the highest in the US at the time. Small business owners were fighting it, claiming they would go out of business.
The right-wing radio pundit, Rush Limbaugh, whom Price had listened to every day in his childhood, called him a communist.
“I hope this company is a case study in MBA programmes on how socialism does not work, because it’s going to fail,” he said.
Two senior Gravity employees also resigned in protest. They weren’t happy that the salaries of junior staff had jumped overnight, and argued that it would make them lazy, and the company uncompetitive.
This hasn’t happened.
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For-profit falls down, because they can’t be trusted. Where to go for actual lab research? Compromised as it is, my hero Academia.
OHSU is on the case?
Update, Feb. 29, 2020: On Saturday, the FDA announced an “accelerated policy … to achieve more rapid testing capacity in the United States,” allowing academic hospital labs capable of performing high-quality testing to develop and begin using their own tests to detect COVID-19. Before now, hospital labs weren’t sent test kits by the CDC and the FDA required an extensive review process even if the hospitals had internally validated their tests. Under the new policy, the FDA review will still be required, but labs will be able to start using their diagnostics once they are internally validated. On Saturday, officials in Oregon and Washington state said they had found new cases of COVID-19 that appeared to be instances of “community spread,” where the source of infection is unknown.
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To avoid exposing their IP compartmentalization scam, Uber makes a sacrifice to the bus of the justice they can buy.
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I felt like my college experience could be summarized as “necessary door-opening bullshit” rather than learning as such. “Fun” was definitely questionable.
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Elon Musk needs to fuck right off. Not all of us have daddies in the mining business…
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Good grief. Most of my job skills didn’t come from college, but I’m not a doctor, engineer, chemist, veterinarian, nurse, teacher, accountant, or any of the other things I’m totally not educated enough to do.
I think maybe what he’s getting at is this: any asshole with enough money could do HIS job.
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That’s a bingo!
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And hutzpah.
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Yeah. Self reflection is a bug for shady billionaires.
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ETRWR
Eat the rich with rice.
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You can get your stimulus if the IRS already has a direct deposit account number for you—but if you didn’t get a refund this year or last year, it doesn’t have that number, and the website where you’re supposed to be able to enter it often just returns a message that says “payment status not available.”
Something worth trying if you get that message - try entering your address information in ALL CAPS. A developer on another site suggested that and some other people said it worked, so I tried it and it worked for me too. 
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The Trump of coal: theft, theft, and more theft.
https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/27/literal-gunhumping/#injustice
On the solutions front, mandatory licensing for copyright:
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Meanwhile, the orange bikes Uber bought from the Nike guy are going to landfills.
https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/26/pandemic-profiteers/#bezzlers
The Multi-Level-Marketer policy of every season: