If you are a highly paid tech worker, don't fool yourself into believing that IF THEY COULD tech companies wouldn't pay you minimum wage. \1
They absolutely would pay you $7.25 an hour in a heartbeat if they thought they could.
Your skills are NOT more valuable to the company than low paid support staff. It is just harder to find a replacement if you quit. \2
But without the low paid support staff essentially all large tech companies would grind to a complete halt in days to weeks and go bankrupt within months. \3
And it isn’t that paying the support staff like the highly paid tech workers would really impact the companies bottom lines. It absolutely wouldn’t.
They pay low wages to support staff for one reason: BECAUSE THEY CAN.
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Addendum: I include cleaning, security, food service, and building maintenance staff under support staff
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This thread is about how the US media utterly whitewashes racism as the a huge component of the Republican party and more specifically as the main factor behind the Trump's success with White, rural, voters.
So buckle up. \1
If you read the @CNN article it presents a narrative about how economics have driven voters in Brantley County, Georgia towards the Republican party and about how friendly Republican voters and Democrat voters there are to each other.
An argument used by the LGB Alliance et al is that modern trans people are "transing" historical figures
That Queens were REALLY homosexuals - not transsexuals. But they ignore that the distinction between homosexuals and transsexuals was not nearly as clean as they assert \1
Daily News (New York, New York), 1970-08-23
"Queen: Most feminine type of homosexual. See himself as a female. Plays feminine role in sexual relations. He's the caricature of a normal woman."
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The Atlanta Constitution (Atlanta, Georgia), 1966-01-07
'1. The "narcissistic" homosexual is "nelly . . . swishy." He is effeminate and identifies himself as a woman. His emotions stopped maturing at a very early age.'
LGB Alliance now contends that Gary Powell was not a founder of their organization, apparently on the theory that because his name doesn't appear on the officers list at founding, he isn't a founder
Despite having been involved in the launch and pre-launch
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I was digging through the historical records for Stonewall and found their 1989 incorporation document. Simon Fanshawe doesn't appear in it anywhere. He was appointed as an officer in *1997*
A newspaper article on Oct 29, 1993 mentions him and Stonewall...but separately \2
I DID find a document listing him as being PRESENT at the January 29, 1989 meeting of the Stonewall Group - pre-incorporation
"'Gay Rights' is a false term. No person has the civil right to go around deceiving and tricking people nor can people be forced to accept something that's false or else. [...] Homosexuality is a religion not a race."
The Signal (Santa Clarita, California) 1991-08-12
"This is a violation against women, putting us in vulnerable situations, making us victims of unfair laws, putting us in the closet and afraid to speak because of persecution if we do not want to have a lesbian for a roommate."
"When I was young some girls were called tomboys. Today they would be told they are transgender...er...lesbians."
The Journal News (White Plains, New York) 1973-03-01
The Des Moines Register (Des Moines, Iowa) 1990-10-21
* Homosexuals "recruit" by molesting children
* Gay people are mentally ill
* Gay men hate women; Lesbians hate men.
* Gay people want to turn heterosexuals into homosexuals.
* The only thing gay people think about is sex.