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It's the rules of the game you're mad at. Not the commuting equitably issue.
I am literally not mad at the rules of the game… I am saying the rules are fine which are already codified for when your are “on the clock”
I am not opposed to changing the rules to make the game better for everyone but giving Carlos an extra 2m/ game because he lives in Wyoming when everyone else lives 5 minutes from the stadium is just bullshit.
Equity is a very important issue with uncontrolled circumstances but commuting distance is mostly in control of the employee in which case equality makes more sense
I don't think you understand... The only difference is there are those who expect and demand to paid for their time and money spent getting to work and those who don't. There are those who accept getting the raw end of the work-life and financial balance, and those that don't. If the CEO can demand, expect, and get compensation. So can the boots on the ground worker. Only real difference is that you don't. That's capitalism.
Saying that we should be able to do things because a CEO does is a shit argument.
We don’t need more people acting like CEOs who terribly pollute the planet…
The money that is going to the workers is fixed it is a zero sum game if they pay people more for commuting they aren’t going to just take a loss on their income.
In the case of the pilots and the flight attendants the difference is not them commuting from home but that they can be stuck waiting at an airport or even on a plane that isn’t departing that is completely out of their control. So if they normally get paid $50/hr for a 5 hour flight that under normal conditions involves 3 hours of unpaid airport time currently they would get $250 if they instead got 31/hr they would get paid the same for a normal flight but if there was a uncontrolled 2 hour delay they now get 310 instead which is 100% deserved
In the case of engineers if they have 10 engineers who have a budget of 5000/day why should the 9 that live 30 minutes away get paid $484 and the one that lives 2 hours away get paid 645 for not contributing anything extra?
Compensation should be increased! Work life balance should be increased! Doing it through paying commuting costs for office workers is a dumb way of doing it.
All your reasons for it are coming down to ad hominem attacks that I apparently just hate workers and I have said multiple times now that it has nothing to do with that and I want workers to be paid but the mechanism of paying them for commuting just doesn’t make logical sense
If you want to have a real conversation where you give real reasons why you think a commuting compensation is useful I would love to hear your reasons but if you are just going to keep insulting people who disagree then you can talk to yourself
Oh so you're pro oligarchy. Just say that. Could have saved me a lot of time.