Shitty. What a sham. What a fraud. What a sham of a fraudulent fuck.
Shitty. What a sham. What a fraud. What a sham of a fraudulent fuck.
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. ~ Marcus Aurelius“It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.”
― George Orwell, 1984
“The urge to shout filthy words at the top of his voice was as strong as ever.”
― George Orwell, 1984
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. ~ Marcus Aurelius“It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.”
― George Orwell, 1984
“The urge to shout filthy words at the top of his voice was as strong as ever.”
― George Orwell, 1984
As one of those tech employees who works at one of those big tech companies everyone loves to hate- I absolutely understand the sentiment behind this law. The job I do is very similar to my non-tech job 7 years ago, and I get paid over 5x as much now to do it. The kind of income inequality this creates is destroying tech hubs. Tech workers get all of the money, and everyone else has to deal with the consequences of that money- insane rent, huge increases in costs of living, etc. Some of that money does go into the local economy but not nearly enough.
Right now the food perks we get aren't taxed, and that money tends to get funneled into a few large catering companies who likely aren't sourcing their food locally. So the money that we would be spending at the local restaurants is going to some food distributor in Utah. That's not good.
Having said that- this law isn't likely going to do what they're hoping it will do. Most companies will just have their catering companies make the food off-site. They're not going to stop giving free food perks because the market for good tech talent is extremely competitive, and they honestly don't want us leaving the office any more than we have to.
What I'd rather see is a tax on the food benefits that goes directly to tax breaks for local restaurants, and for tech companies to start contributing to their communities.
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. ~ Marcus Aurelius“It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.”
― George Orwell, 1984
“The urge to shout filthy words at the top of his voice was as strong as ever.”
― George Orwell, 1984
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. ~ Marcus Aurelius“It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.”
― George Orwell, 1984
“The urge to shout filthy words at the top of his voice was as strong as ever.”
― George Orwell, 1984
Last edited by time4fun; 07-25-2018 at 08:38 PM.