Do you also have a paper about the wage increase in things where the price of the employees is a bigger part of the total costs (restaurants, accountants, notaries, etc)?

In a restaurant, the costs of the wages (plus social security and pension payments) are often as much as the costs of the food itself.

Depends on the company, that's why I am asking. In companies where wages are the main cost (like in many restaurants) raining the wages will raise the total costs. Which can mean they will go into the negative if the prices aren't increasing as well. I have seen a fair amount of administrations/annual reports of restaurants. And it was pretty common to spend at least as much on food as on the personel costs (wages, social security, pension, etc.)

30$ is a lot compared to the minimum wage 14,40€ (16,84$) we have in NL. Which is why I am asking what the impact of it would be in the US of such an increase.

(Yes it will not matter for MacDonalds, Burger King or any other big chains)

Can you link one of those studies? Truly interested in the subject.

The restaurants I have/had as clients all had only 1 or 2 locations, but one of their main expenses is well wage cost. At least here in NL and with my clients. Increasing the wage there would require a price increase or they would go to the negative. I am just wondering how it would impact in the US.

The TLDR about Anglo-Saxon vs Rheinland's is different cultures in companies and the Anglo-Saxon (mistranslated in my previous comment) mindset is more along the lines of profit and shareholder value optimalisation (you see this a lot in the English-speaking countries) and the Rheinland's model has more focus for other things like the other stakeholders like the employees. (You see this more in NL and DE, among others). The Rheinland's model isn't the greatest, it is slower because there is more to consider than profit maximisation. And pretty sure it is also worse for startups for similar reasons.

The US is also really consuming focussed, they really want you to consume aka buy as much as possible. That's why big box stores exist, and that is generally how they seem to act.

The modern NL had a good monetary head start due to our past, but in general our system is pretty decent. It will take a while to get something done and the government will fall pretty often, but everybody can get into it, at least in some levels if they get enough votes. In local politics, this isn't the hardest thing to do if you want it and believe you can make a difference. We have a lot of issues (uneven taxes, people missing out on social security due to faults of others, discrimination, etc.). But I do truly believe that our government, the rule of law and the executive power is at least pretty decent.

In my opinion you should look at the law objectively, a group of people who aren't fully educated on the law and aren't trained in being objective will not form an objective opinion.

Juries would be fine to give advice to the judge on how the public sees it, but they shouldn't have a real impact on the outcome of the situation. That should be a question of executing the law.

We have no trial by jury in The Netherlands and the international court of law doesn't have a jury either. The just have 15 judges to decide the outcome.

If you file a complaint with an instance like the NBA in this instance it will not go directly to the person who you complained about. They should stop the harassment.

In the case of accountants, the rules and regulations already make us write down a lot of our work and why we made certain decisions. If something is not written down, it is going to be hard to defend.

Yes in a restaurant it is different, but generally harassment is pretty rare, at least with the restaurants I have or had as clients. None really saw it as an issue. You just ban them, kick them out, call the cops if it really becomes bad or just deal with the couple bad reviews.

Depends, if you have a security camera on your own yard it is legal, but if it films the sidewalk it is illegal.

Bitching about things like unlawful camera use is exactly how things like the GDPR get enforced. A lot of people don't even know that it isn't allowed.

Heck the police will still use your camera if it is filming the road. They cannot use it as evidence, but it can help them in their investigation. FIlming cars is fine, but it is hard to fil the cars without filiming the people walking or cycling. There is also a balance that needs to be struck between privacy and being able to find/monitor actual criminals. This article from the authority of personal data goes into the Police and their camara use

Of the US law yes, but that's not the case everywhere.

I personally don't think juries should do more than give extra input to the judge. The judge should follow the law exactly and tif they don't, the average person should be able to file a complaint about them not doing their job and they should be investigated.

(I also work in a field (accountancy) where you can file complaints to be for very cheap if I don't do my job correctly)

Well yeah it is better to regulate it but that should include that you aren't allowed to use the data from it to track people etc. We already have protrait right in the GDPR so it is already hard to use.

You don't need to know who works at the library, you need to know the financial statements of the company together with the base on which the salary is based on.

It always baffles me when I try to find annual reports of American companies and they are just not made public unless they are public. But for things like non-profits, or government owned companies it is especially important as well. Sadly it is easy to get a non-profit in the US, so people abuse that. Becoming a CPA in the US is also very easy compared to at least NL.

Privacy doesn't exist in the US unless we are talking about companies.

Why the fuck would it need to be public? Especially in a country like the US where most of the annual reports of companies aren't public where people can actually benefit form.

If you work for a company that company is responsible for the actions you take while working there. If you discriminate somebody in the library it is your library which is being targeted and then they will target you as well.

At least that's now it generally works in the world, variations can exist depending on the area you live in.

It is definitely not going to work on any cop. There are still cops who are working in countries where privacy laws exist.