"Loyalty" has been dead for decades, just look at that many accounts of successful teams and people that have been laid off in the last year alone. The same exact stories of hard working and dedicated people being laid off on a whim can be found going back decades.
There's a reason that so many people now get prompted by moving "horizontally" between companies, very few companies today properly reward loyalty, if anything most actively incentivize individualism and disloyalty.
According to FBI data, crime is actually decreasing year on year in almost every metric despite police dereliction of duty. Ironically this is creating a stronger case for further police budget cuts and moving that money towards non-traditional policing alternatives. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/29/us/crime-data-fbi-homicid...
Tim Tok has been struggling with a massive problem where many creators that actually start to get big on the platform end up migrating to YouTube anyway because their pay sucks compared to YouTube, the same goes for instagram and every other platform in the industry. Youtube has a lot of problems but nobody pays better than them https://youtu.be/jAZapFzpP64?si=KrLqetuhzmer2T8H
Your link is dead... but the idea that the "vast majority" of Palestinians support a group that was elected way back in 2004, then immediately dismantled elections violently attacks any dissenters is laughable, Palestinians were bravely publicly protesting hamas (again, a group known for executing dissenters) just 4 months before the attacks, internal support for hamas is not high. https://apnews.com/article/gaza-hamas-demonstration-israel-b...
While there may be trends none of the examples you cite are new, the only thing these trends definitively reflect is that society is changing, which is to be expected.
1) Feudal Society was overwhelmingly debt based with serfs in debt for life or even generations, medieval European society did not collapse but rather changed over time in part due to the unstable nature of this system.
2) not sure what "demographic cratering" refers to here, low birth rate? Low birth rate is a well understood economic phenomenon when a society reaches a position of high comfort and well met needs for its population. I would argue this is a good thing.
3) participation in communities of faith has historically fluctuated, such as during the renaissance era. and high participation is not necessarily a good thing, high religious participation among populations also coincided with religious wars where massive scale atrocities or genocide occurred.
4) increased drug use is generally not even a new trend, if anything just a change in what drugs are used. In use United States, Opioids currently are far less prevalent than nicotine was during most of the 1900's, weight loss fad drugs have been recorded as far back as Ancient Greek society. the increase in prescription drug use over the last 100 years has also coincided with a large increase of the average American lifespan.
The "expectation" of tips making up the rest is really just an expectation from the business that you will needlessly subsidize their payroll, in all 50 states the employer is mandated to always pay the minimum wage even if zero tips are earned https://www.dol.gov/general/topic/wages/wagestips
I say tipping is unnecessary because there exist a few states like California who ban the practice of paying a lower "cash wage" and allowing businesses to keep tips for themselves. Anecdotally, I notice that typical restaurant bills in California are not any more expensive than nearby states like Nevada, Colorado, or Arizona.
Do you tip the janitors of each place you frequent? What makes wait staff any more deserving of a living wage than other occupations? Realistically tipping is just a subsidy for corporations who choose to take more profit instead of pay a living wage to their workers.
The government regularly uses taxpayer funds to bail out or support failing private corporations anyway, so it's already our problem when private companies go into debt, why not force out the profit-seeking middle man?
My understanding is the supposed "attack" happened 25 miles away from the airport and over an hour after the last tweet from the elonjet account. It's also suspicious that the LAPD came forward saying no police were ever called nor was a police report on the incident filed. This whole situation seems made up or at least strongly exaggerated.
really just flimsy excuse to ban an account musk personally doesn't like and any journalist who criticizes him as well.
You know that “quiet quitting” just means doing the absolute requirements of your job and nothing more above and beyond right? What cause could you use? “Employee only works exact amount of hours as required in employment contract and completes average number of tasks per day” is absolutely not a just cause.
> Since you'd get more pay without these protections, you can save the excess for a rainy day.
It sounds like you are speaking from a position of extreme privilege, more than 165 million Americans (over half) do not have a spare ~$400 for an emergency, much less savings to pay rent after a sudden job loss.
And when people get desperate some turn to crime. Which then increases your costs through increased taxation for policing and incarceration and secondary effects such as reduced safety and increased personal costs due to crime, such as increased insurance costs and the greater threat of being targeted.
So when all costs are internalized, worker protections pay dividends at making a society better for all involved, for example the many northers European countries with very low crime and very strong worker protections.
You should show pricing somewhere without requiring a sign up/login. Maybe it’s just how your site renders on mobile but I could not find pricing without signing up.
There's a reason that so many people now get prompted by moving "horizontally" between companies, very few companies today properly reward loyalty, if anything most actively incentivize individualism and disloyalty.