As it happens you don’t actually have to be a social chauvinist for the country in which you reside.

I don’t really understand how this pans out like that. The US seems to be tanking its own economy at an alarming rate, Russia is still basically a heavily militarised Italy in terms of its economy. Europe is going to suffer but it seems like the only leverage Russia really has is military and gas reserves (which Europe has since hedged against after the energy price spike) at this point.

If you ask me the whole alliance between Russia and the US is notable mostly because it creates a one-sided nuclear hegemony where they each have significant missile defences and other countries don’t have enough arms to overwhelm those, essentially undermining the MAD idea. But you know that’s not economic, that’s “might is right.”

It might not be nutritionally optimal or particularly appetising but like 9 cans of tinned meal of your choice will get you through that kind of period and won’t take a lot of space.

“hey guys I was just chatting with the wives and they all think waging war is for guys with small dick energy”

I’m fine enjoying their leavings.

hello, .world! 👋

By the sounds of it the first point is handled by having essentially a year long probationary period, and then another two year period before someone becomes fully entrenched in the org as a full partner. This is almost certainly a long enough time to determine if someone is going to be a piss taker or not and so other instances of underperformance can be handled via supportive mechanisms.

It’s worth highlighting that performance “curves” in some companies seem to lay off reasonably productive people and preserve people who are great at gaming the system/metrics.

For conflict resolution I don’t know how they do it, but if I were in charge of this I’d probably have a dedicated body like an HR set up for this which would be democratically accountable but ultimately still deal with that kind of thing as a last resort (assuming it can’t be sorted out between team members).

Many worker co-ops have been resilient to recessions as members often choose to temporarily lower their own pay/share of profits rather than having layoffs or other similar arrangements. https://www.yesmagazine.org/issue/new-economy/2009/06/06/mondragon-worker-cooperatives-decide-how-to-ride-out-a-downturn

It’s too easy to reply “it is” at this point for sure.

The victims are those who want musk punished

We covered this, it’s not the case

Sounds to me like it’s a victimless crime then.

I think it’s fair to say Musk already screws them to the maximum extent possible, so the degree to which they are screwed is probably not responsive to changes in insurance premiums and we can expect that to more or less come straight out of Musk’s pocket.

They don’t admit to having real estate investments so we’re sort of forced to assume they’re just control freaks who want to use workplaces to satisfy their megalomania kink.