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Mastodon is financed by crowdfunding instead of venture capital not because we don't know that venture capital exists, not because we don't have bills to pay, and not because venture capital isn't willing to give money to new social media platforms. VCs don't want a sustainable business, they want a big exit. Every VC-backed business is on a timer to deliver or die.
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Mister Shade
Mister Shade
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Good to see this place apparently saw Ello was little more than a speed bump and isn’t repeating history.
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Harris✔︎
Harris✔︎
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``Every VC-backed business is on a timer to deliver or die.''

Repeat this everywhere.

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McDonald’s USA
— Employee: $15/hr, no benefits
— Big Mac: $5.90

McDonald’s Denmark
— Employee: $22/hr, 6 weeks vacation, 1 year paid maternity leave, life insurance, pension
— Big Mac: $5.66

Tell us more about how raising the minimum wage would affect the cost of hamburgers.

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geoff martin
geoff martin
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One extra piece of information to add to that: there’s no legislated minimum wage here in Denmark. Wages are negotiated between workers’ unions and the employers.
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a fish named dog
a fish named dog
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It's weird that the anti immigration people are also
often against raising the minimum wage. If the immigrants are going to take your job because they'll work for $15 an hour and you need to work for $20 an hour to survive, you could raise the minimum wage to $20 an hour and then you and the lazy but also hardworking immigrant are on equal ground again. But hey who ever let reason get in the way of maga?
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