“I’d love to see a guy known for dirty play come in and teach this guy known for dirty play a lesson.” Makes sense.

And there it is. “I work harder, I’m special, I deserve this, autoworkers are lazy, golfing is for lazy people, blah, blah, blah.” Just because you’re no Renaissance man and think the most important thing in the world is being a suck-up at work doesn’t mean folks shouldn’t organize to level the playing field for…

I really don’t care about your personal triumphs. The fact that you are management makes it unsurprising that you dislike unions. The end.

Surprise, surprise!

Well yeah, if you pay grad students more, there’s going to be less money for the Dean to wine and dine donors down in Miami. Less money to pay exorbitant salaries to upper-level administration (the dean where I work makes close to $400k/year). It’s not rocket surgery to figure out why the rich hate unions.

Somebody’s aiming for upper management! If I have to wait 2 - 5 years to get paid, that’s wrong. Period. And it has a negative impact on how I approach managing my work decisions. If my boss is a huge asshole but I have to wait for a large portion of my compensation to vest, I’ll likely put up with it. That’s bad. But…

The problem is that equity is yet another tool, like employment-based health insurance, to further erode the ability of workers to take their labor elsewhere if they are treated unfairly.

Don’t want to deal with employees on an equal footing? Don’t start a business snowflake.

When do we start?

As little as possible.

Yeah, I have friends that live in the Bay Area that don’t even consider the possibility of ever owning their own home. My advice to them is to move, which I know is MUCH easier said than done.

I understand enough to know I’d never live there. If I can’t afford to live close to work somewhere, I can’t afford to live there.

It’s the best when you don’t need a car for commuting. So much money saved. I’m 4 miles from my job and bike just about every day. It’s fun, I save a lot of cash, and I can look at cars based solely on my potential enjoyment, not how well they’ll handle a commute.

To each their own of course, but I couldn’t imagine spending 2 hours everyday commuting. I’d be miserable. Of course, I have an acre of property and live 4 miles from work, so I sort of have the best of both worlds.

Indeed. If you live close to work, having any car for commuting makes no sense. Ride a bike and have whatever car you want for the enjoyment of driving, not the slog of commuting.

50 miles each way is a short commute? Jesus people, move closer to work!

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Their pay is completely divorced from their performance too. We need an income ceiling.

I get it, in your view, nothing happens without benevolent billionaires.

Ah yes, the old “it would have been worse” fallacy. We don’t know what would have happened without Illitch. The likely results are fewer cups for the Wings, less success for the Tigers, but to say that the downtown area would have wallowed without him is BS. As pointed out in the article, large swaths of downtown may…