"Your work was perfect and thanks to your continued efforts going above and beyond we achieved record profits. Unfortunately the budget doesn't allow any raise this year."
The most likely answer to get in 2 years.
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Oh yes, there are some who did the research, performed the experiment and got the opposite result. Then they rejected the conclusions of the experiment and researched some more.
The problem is politics and government becoming part of the market where laws, regulations and power can be sold and bought, if not for money then for influence.
There was a time where more companies held on to people and you could start and retire in the same company. That's now decades ago. That era ended with the oil crisis and never came back, despite bosses pretending it's still there.
Oh, how they hate the new generations doing exactly the same as they do, and only being interested in what's in it for them in the short term and not trusting any promises.
This is the same in more places and more jobs: Schools, hospitals, nursing homes, ...
Workers: we need more budget to attract new people. We're already stretched too thin as it is
Boss: I'm cutting the budget to save on costs. If you don't like it then quit.
Workers: That was the straw that broke the camel's back. Here's my notice. I quit.
Boss: You can't do that! Now I'm in trouble!
Disruptions are in the near future. Energy systems are changing, climate change is going to wreck things, wannabe dictators starting wars and others. Usually one of those isn't a problem but a lot of those at the same time wrecked past civilizations. But you can't predict how it'll all turn out.
If history is anything to go by, the English speaking world runs into some trouble. Nothing much new comes out in English while somebody else becomes dominant in research and publishes in their language. That's getting picked up in academia and politics and if anyone wants to be up to date, they learn that language. The other language now starts to distribute their movies exposing more people who pick up that language and spreading from there.
Sure, that can take a few generations. It's not like everybody just decided to switch right now
Italians (Latin) and Greeks were salty before them. And the Anglo-Saxons will be salty when Chinese, Indian or an African language becomes the new lingua franca. That's
Sounds like that system that Reddit announced with communist tokens and crypto.
"If you're ignoring the constitution, it also means others see the second amendment as null and void."
Maybe that gets their attention.
Celebrities apparently.
That was Musk too laying on the whip demanding progress and a breakthrough with the team running head first into fundamental technical limitations. It was made worse with him putting on even more restrictions with vision only.