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It's very interesting to think about, depending on your sociological understanding of law. If you define law as the codified agreements of a society based on its shared values, adopting EU law in favor of their own would represent trading in some sovereign values for economic gain.

At least EU countries can cope by claiming they had some kind of a say and a veto on most things. EU prospects don't have this rationalization.


What are you talking about? >99% of all Austrian employment contracts are based on and negotiated by the unions here.

Is our school system failing? No. Is our public infrastructure somehow inferior? No.

The U.S. is much less unionized and much worse off for it.


Winston Churchill one quipped 'You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they’ve tried everything else.' I suppose that also applies to managing their societal affairs as well. The upside to falling so far behind the industrial world? There are plenty of proven solutions to copy to which they'll loudly proclaim as their own stroke of genius.

Specifically in the US context, this is failing. And 70% of our teachers are unionized, with unionized districts seeming to underperform equivalent non-unionized districts (despite researchers repeatedly trying to find the opposite, the stats just are what they are)

You need to be able to explain this better than “look at Austria”. Nearly everything about Austria is different than the US.


>Specifically in the US context, this is failing.

You have existing counterexamples in other countries who don't employ your suggested tweeks. It's a sign you should go back to the drawing board (and history books).

Ask the customers: Ok great. I can already see how well that would've worked in the past. Tobacco smokers are pissed off at the rioting slaves for slowing down shipments. Boo-hoo.

There's stats being thrown about that this Black Friday the number of people buying shit decreased even though the amount of shit bought was higher. Even if you ignore that point but can concede the growing wealth inequality is a thing (consumer class is shrinking but getting richer), you should be able to understand why giving more weight to the wealthier class should be thought about twice.


You made the assertion (teachers unions are failing students). The burden of proof is 100% on you.

Are you referring to public sector teaching jobs in both cases?

I would have never expected to read about Hermagor in an HN thread. Greetings from the Werbutz Alm!

That is the point! Austria is on the verge of overtourism, it's a conscious political decision in this case to tax transport of tourists highly and allow the population cheap subscription plans.

No voter in Austria would want it any other way.


People do not have anything to do with IBM Research. As long as IBM Consulting exists, your name will be seen as tarnished and not be taken seriously by most technology workers.

Just look at this comment section as Q.E.D.


I suspect they were referring to the first Xbox. It used to be colloquially referred to as "Xbox One" before Microsoft decided on their piss-poor naming scheme after the 360.

I earn much more in my 'highly-taxed' Central European city than I'd earn in i. e. Switzerland after all costs are accounted for. Starting my company here cost almost nothing, and hourly rates start at €80. Cost of living is absurdly low compared with earnings - this all in a capital with one of the highest qualities of life on this planet. Schooling and university is completely free and of high quality.

How do people find so much to complain about?


Just take a look at their comment history, most comments are completely empty in content like this one, and I'm willing to bet that if this indeed a person, they've never lived in an European country. Nobody that actually lived in the EU says they've "left the EU", since each country is pretty different and it makes no sense to say it like that. This whole thread has bot-vibes.

There should be a civil war in the U.S. for this alone.

I prefer cross-polinating, as we're probably diametrical.


Yes! When developing Smart Contracts this used to be a best practice, enabling us to fix security holes in worst case scenarios.


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