And if it could be trained ethically, it’d be more ethical, too!

Equal work for equal pay is important, yes.

Businesses might be willing to “give a chance” to someone with a disability if they don’t have to pay them as much as anyone else.

If there are no other incentives, and someone with a disability is unable to perform the job as well as someone without a disability, then the business would likely choose the more capable employee regardless of any disabilities. And by definition, that’d usually be an advantage for the person without a disability.

You can’t fire someone for having a disability in a lot of places. You can usually fire someone for not performing well enough at the required duties.

What was the book?

I’d be curious to read about the experiment in particular

What a stupid fucking decision they made.

They were on sale!!!

LOL Ex-Hezbollah member changes his ways and sells his pager on E-Bay

Someone finds a cheap pager from Iran on E-Bay and decides they want it…haha

(I know you said Wish, but I like this story too, lol)

I agree with your comment wholeheartedly and in its entirety.

With that said, raising the wages of people with special needs to be on par with that of the general minimum wage would generally be bad for people with special needs. Employers are incentivized to hire people with special needs because of the lower rate. Many employers would prefer someone without special needs if the hourly costs were the same.

In addition, many people with special needs are working fewer than 40 hours a week, and I still think they should be able to support their lives, to at least comfortably have their basic needs met.

I think the government should be stepping in to fill in the gap. If the state minimum wage is $12/h, but workers with special needs can be paid $8/h (for example), then maybe the government could be paying the extra $4/h to meet the difference.

…or they could use that money towards providing programs that people with special needs could benefit from.

Only extra well-done with ketchup

Same here! I spent a lot of time in Midgar, so it felt like the whole game could take place there. But stepping onto the world map was an amazing experience partially because of how amazing Midgar was to me.

I played it as a kid in the 90s though, so that might’ve coloured my interpretation of it.

“Physical copies” is a big ask, considering they would also have to be selling the hardware to run those games.

To your credit, they aren’t actually selling most of their back catalog anymore, since their e-shops that sold games for the WiiU/3DS are closed down, and with them, the Virtual Console died. Now we’ve only got a subscription-based library to play a much more limited selection of old games.

Either way, it’s not Nintendo’s fault you pirate games. You want to play old games, and you don’t want to pay too much money for them, so you pirate them. Let’s be real.

Wow, Midgar was my favourite part of the original FF7! I remember thinking the whole game was going to take place in Midgar.

Why not a controller?

“Men are being left behind!”

They gotta get with the program! Lol

Even if it would, which it won’t, what would it matter? None of the looney tunes who care about this would ever come close to smelling the White House.

I’m weeping having learned this

And let me guess…“somehow”, they haven’t had to hack up their prices after raising wages, huh?

I don’t think it counts if you’re newly rich, though

Probably a combination of

• Trump’s cult of personality
• Voter apathy
• Polling imperfections

Not at all. There are plenty of evil “independents” and “centrists”. But let’s not kid ourselves, there are evil Democrats too.

Still, I get your sentiment.

He’s doing so without doing so.

He knows what he’s saying, and most people know what he’s saying, but he’s not “legally” saying it.

It’s the equivalent of adding “…in Minecraft” to his threat, except it’s legally stronger given the context.