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If one cares about it, one should campaign to change the systematic inequities that it represents.
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It’s an exchange for a) according to classical economics a balance of demand and supply influenced by marginal costs and marginal benefits of productive labour or b) a more Marxist view that it is an exchange or return for being in a position of power - such power might be derived from being the only person willing and able to do the job as per classical economics or it might be a more perfidious use of types of political power.
The other problem is that apologising for how much you earn is not a signal to the universe to turn off the abundance - or do anything about the abundance. The universe is not listening. I think it is incapable of listening.
Basically boat number 8 is sailing close to mystical hooee.
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(Those 80% are weird and wrong though, because female Shepherd is THE BEST.)
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It also has a bisexual character who isn't portrayed as a sex-hungry slut, which is nice.
Mass Effect chat: since Bioware for some reason didn't allow for human/Krogan romance, it's still pretty cool that you can get together with Jaavik. Very awkwardly, admittedly.
It's also very neat that romance blossoms between two of your crew if you don't get involved with either of them.
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Same with Legend of Korra - Nick were convinced that people wouldn't watch an action-oriented animation with a female lead, and yet they did!
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It' looks awesome!
http://lifeisstrange.com/
What's weird is that it's not listed on Amazon.co.uk at all even as a pre-order. I would think Amazon would list anything by Square Enix.
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If your three year old is running around a bar, knocks into my table and spills my pint on me you should apologize (This happens to me at least six times a year.)
And if your five year old is blasting around on a scooter around cafe tables and runs over my foot (once in 2015 to me already, at least four times last year) you should also apologize.
Another example from last year. Someone had their toddler running around the pub and the only word it had learned to say was "putain" (whore) and it kept pointing at people and screaming "whore" at them. I think that deserves a "sorry" as well.
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But self-censoring doesn't strike me as an answer to that - that seems to lead to people not having open discussions about why the situation is as it is, and what can/should be done about it.
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I've found this out through people messaging me "A potential client is offering $50 for xxx, is that a good deal?" and me being like "Um...no...the industry standard for that is $350 and some clients will pay up to $500."
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What I mean by that is that my salary relates directly to me - someone else in my department doing the exact same job gets a different salary because of factors like how much budget there's been in years when they've got a raise, what salary they were brought in on, whether their team as a whole did well, how long they've been with the company. The salary is related to them, not the role, in effect. What someone else in the same role earns has little impact on my salary.
I would be more comfortable if salaries were widely known, and very closely tied to the role (possibly with a % increase for length of service although I'd argue length of service doesn't really equate to skill) but bonuses of whatever kind were not public and were the more individual part of this ( ... )
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