It's 2016. If you're working a blue collar job, you're in a collective bargaining state, and you still refuse to join a union, you're just holding everyone back. I have no sympathy for workers who go out of their way to not be represented.

I'm pretty sure you're in favour of reducing inequality, aren't you?

So why are you calling for something that's going to worsen the only kind of inequality that has steadily been getting worse over the past few decades?

Woah man, turns out a ridiculously high minimum wage is a bad idea. Better hate on unions for realizing this.

>unions fight for $15 min-wage
>unions fight for union exemptions to $15 min-wage

Yeah, my cynicism totally isn't justified here. It's totally not as if they're trying to benefit unionised workers at the expense of non-unionised workers.

Surely, the correct response to their obviously sudden realisation about their own folly is to say "We got it wrong". Not to go "Oh well, let's just make sure our workers aren't shafted".

I'm actually amazed you perceive the situation in the way that you do.

Colonialist States get out tbh

>israel
>colonialist

If I could give out grades for butchering words, you'd get an A+.

The Guardian.

Los Angeles city council will hear a proposal on Tuesday to exempt union members from a $15 an hour minimum wage that the unions themselves have spent years fighting for.

The proposal for the exemption was first introduced last year, after the Los Angeles city council passed a bill that would see the city’s minimum wage increase to $15 by 2020. After drawing criticism last year, the proposed amendment was put on hold but is now up for consideration once again.

Union leaders argue the amendment would give businesses and unions the freedom to negotiate better agreements, which might include lower wages but could make up the difference in other benefits such as healthcare. They argue that such exemptions might make businesses more open to unionization.

Lol.

That reaction.

Just "Oh shit."

Quote from: Meta Cognition on April 14, 2016, 12:58:52 PM

Could you suck those balls any harder?

I don't think so.

Could you suck those balls any harder?

I don't think so.

Quote from: Prime X on April 13, 2016, 08:44:48 PM

Quote from: ねこ on April 13, 2016, 08:43:58 PM

Birds can dance

Not a question.

Not an answer

Quiet, birdy bitch.

So I was right when I called you a woman?

Human genocide when?

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Couple of things that cropped up seemed fairly positive though, prognosis wise, in that it appears to be treatable with CBT adaptations/emotional awareness training etc.

Apparently it's correlated with some personality disorders. I'm sticking my neck into an area I don't understand, but it feels like this could go some way to explaining how disorders like BPD are on a spectrum, with only mildly alexithymiatic people not qualifying for a 'serious' diagnosis but still exhibiting symptoms like fleeting emotions or a lack of identity.

In terms of treatment, this book is cited on the wikipedia page: "Disorders of Affect Regulation: Alexithymia in Medical and Psychiatric Illness". Apparently, the emotional deficits involved in alexithymia makes people incredibly unresponsive to psychotherapy and entering such therapy can exacerbate problems like substance abuse. That said, a cursory read makes it look as if people can be differentiated into those who have it due to unfortunate circumstances, and those who have it as a stable personality trait.

Perhaps those afflicted by poor circumstances are the ones most helped by therapy, whereas those who have it as a stable personality trait do not. Is there any basis for something like that in the psychology literature? Like, situation-driven depression vs. endogenous depression and how easily each responds to treatment?

Quote from: Simseoh on April 13, 2016, 09:25:29 AM

you were drunk at 10am?

5 quid says he lives on an estate too

I actually don't.

My parents are working-class, though.