> This law makes good headlines, but that's all.

A civil judgement for wrongful death can be dismissed during bankruptcy. So the perp in theory can get a clean slate and keep all earnings.

I didn't read the text of the law, but the idea is probably to get around that.

> good way to keep desperate to work people from being taken advantage of

This is not possible unless there is collusion between different employers. There was evidence of that happening with big Tech in Silicon Valley a while back, but there is no evidence of that ever happening in Pennsylvania.

I can tell you that 30% of all people earning minimum wage or less had a household income over $100K.

Because a universal minimum wage is a fundamentally stupid idea.

Cost of living varies greatly across the state.

Federal worker salaries are adjusted for the area where the employee lives. That only makes sense. Private companies are starting to do the same with work-from-home arrangements if the employee moves away from high COLA locations.

According to official statistics, about 0.1% of people that are not young people earn minimum wage.

And it's most likely part-time positions that would have been volunteering positions but can't be for various legal reasons, so they pay minimum wage.

This minimum wage battle is a sham, like most things in politics. It just pits not so smart people against each other from both sides and keeps them busy fighting each other.

They are literally saving the consumer money by not building too much capacity. Extreme colds are extremely rare.

It's better for the consumer to sacrifice a little during 0.01% of the time and have cheaper energy the other 99.99% of the time.

Fun fact: environmentalist groups that were targeting nuclear energy received money from big oil. They were in direct competition.

Nukes can't compete because they suffer from economies of scale. If there was more nuclear, it would be cheaper per unit built/operated. The world took a wrong turn here. Nuclear is a better source if one goes by facts not emotions.

> for when the heat pump can't work efficiently

Not exactly. Heat pump efficiency is related to outside temps. It's gradual. The colder it is, the less efficient it is.

Heat pumps are sized for the space they need to heat. Installers can undersize a heat pump unit and you'll need to run electric strips when it's 40F outside. And they can size it so large that it will heat your house to 90F when it's -10F outside without any heat strips.

On top of sizing, newer heat pumps just work much better in extreme colds. Newer is better in this case.

Remember the old days when environmentalists were trying to sink popular opinion about nuke power in the 80s? They succeeded.

/u/JesusOfBeer > Watching that SBUX burn at Dilworth was fun 🤩

Hello, this is not the FBI, so what other burning buildings have you been around when they burned down?

> we have a handful of local

So why don't the Starbucks employees go work there then?

> All season's are nice usually, but I managed to stop around a turn when I saw an accident and had 5, 5!!! cars fly around me into the oncoming traffic's lane.

That's the thing. If all seasons are not enough to get you to where you are going, then you should not be on the road at all. Someone else will crash into you even if you have snow tires.

> Unfortunately, many companies are so greedy that they aren’t willing to compromise.

The same can be said about unions. Greed is just human nature, and there are humans on the company side and the union side.

> A good union and a good company would recognize they have a mutual interest

Not going happen. Human nature is unchangeable, short of evolutionary changes, and that takes millions of years.

Where do unions work well? Germany? What are they doing differently? Well, they don't have company level unions for one. They are per industry.

Like everything else, unions have upsides and downsides.

One of the largest downsides is that there are no checks and balances that prevent union request from damaging the business, all the way up to going out of business.

Metalworkers have all but been eliminated. That business is now in Asia and Russia.

Autoworkers allowed the Japanese to take a huge chunk of the market.

There are many examples where short term gains for the union lead to long term losses for the union and the business.

> So basically, millennials couldn’t afford kids.

People had more kids during WWII in Europe. It's not that they can't afford. They are just brainwashed to think it's not important.

> I have a modicum of more respect to him for conceding like a civilized human being.

Now that the election is over can we admit that Oz is a well educated, polished, highly accomplished professor at Columbia and head of cardiac surgery at a major hospital in Manhattan?

> You can have my portion of the Turkish delight i don't want any.

Keep it. Choking on some Turkish delight when election results are released will be epic.

> Obama was not born in an African country

Keep implying that Oz is not a native born American.

Keep implying that's he's not a real doctor. When in reality he's the head of heart surgery at Columbia.

Keep implying that he doesn't have a strong connection to PA. When did Democrats become the nativist party?

Keep doing it. That's going to work out well.

> Send oz back to Istanbul

Imagine if someone was saying send Obama back to Africa.

But that's essentially what you are getting upvoted for saying.

This hypocrisy and double standards permeates the Democratic party and is going to lose them elections.

> I am curious why you assumed there was a political /party based thing here.

You don't watch MSNBC? Republicans are always scheming in all imaginable and unimaginable ways to suppress democrat voting.

Don't you remember how Louis DeJoy was purposefully removing mail sorting machines so mail ballots would not get delivered on time in the 2020 election?

The guy is still the postmaster general by the way. Biden must have forgotten what a supervillain that guy is and didn't replace him yet.

Physical separation of a minority group in an attempt to help them gain acceptance among the majority group is a great idea.

> What kind of gotcha is that supposed to be?

Logic 101?

> I think the assertion is simple - why are we paying these cops to be administrators and not cops? That's misuse of a limited resource, and a sign of mismanagement.

Because the physical person behind that job, again, gets good union pay and union labor protections.

How is this not obvious given that the narrative here is that unions are good, and higher pay is good? Are you giving up that narrative only because the money comes out of taxpayer pockets and not private company accounts?

> It isn't even theft, it was valid safety concerns.

It's not even safety concerns, it's liability. If a Wawa employee is hurt or killed on the job that's an automatic workers comp claim. And almost certainly a civil suit on top.

> For example, many cops are performing administrative duties and jobs that could be done by regular civilians.

And they are doing it while getting good union pay and union labor protections.

I thought strong and large unions were a good thing?

> How would you incentivize them, aside from their paychecks and pensions? Also, why do they need to be incentivized when the rest of the world just goes to work and does their jobs? Because if we don’t do our jobs, we get fired. But they don’t.

It sounds like you work for a paycheck because you can be fired. Because you are replaceable.

Cops generally are not replaceable. All the people that want to be cops in a general geographic area are already cops.

• If you are replaceable = no leverage with the employer

• Not replaceable = you have the upper hand

You've read plenty of Karl Marx. This should be obvious to you.