But not terrible enough to issue a refund for the taxpayers.

How would the salespeople make their money then?

Well it kind of does.

They forget the agile cycle moves from maintenance back to development again.

Makes more sense just to offer devs more holiday and less pay.

SLC also has lots of US citizen foreign language speakers. As well as those with experiences of other cultures.

Really handy for foreign companies expanding.

Send a founder and hire a local VP who can translate to American customers and Employees. Plus close to SV.

I'm surprised Utah isn't in the council of American States in Europe. Or otherwise looking for inward investment.

What about cat example.txt?

No browser needed. No GUI. Works offline.

Surely that's simpler?

it's also not an editor.

Would cat >> example.txt be one, however?

Yes, and it is my preferred method of editing `.gitignore` files:

cat >> .gitignore

*.pyc

^D

but you need the cat executable and CLI environment. Harder to do these days than double clicking on the browser icon.

If companies are persons. Should we arrest them? Tax them like individuals?

Corporations are taxed like individuals. The individual tax is the tax borne by the entirety of shareholders of the corporation as individuals. Corporations are then taxed again. They are doubly taxed entities unlike a passthrough LLC or sole proprietorship

or subject them to the death penalty in the case of gross crimes against humanity?

How do you feel about the US' government mandated overtime laws?

The government mandated exempt employees? Just curious.

You mean like 1.5x pay? If so, I don't like that either.

Not sure what exempt employees are (my own ignorance).

I do wonder if Norway has a different Pension/benefit scheme.

Or if they need ever greater numbers to keep the benefits paying out like UK/US.

Freedom of movement means you can look at the EU rate.

Immigration moves people about quite well.

Hence temps. Or they can redistribute the salary as overtime. If there are enough interested workers.

They just employed someone for a full time job because they needed to spend €x on someone to do Y work

Now they don't have to pay that money, which is fine, but they then need to find someone on a 14 month contract that will do it for the same salary as the person they just employed.

Then at the end of it they are left with paying an overlap from the contractor to someone new

First, a little nitpicking: one of the parents can take at most 12 months off, so there is no "14 month contract".

Second, the whole thing can be way more complex. In Germany a mother has her job secured for the moment she announces to be pregnant to until the child is 3 years old. So one could decide that will take the Elterngeld for 12 months but actually just go back to work 18 months, and the employer has no way of stopping it.

Third and final point: NONE OF THIS MATTERS! Trying to find the "fairness" in this is nothing but some incredibly naive exercise. Like most things in life, salaries are not determined by the amount of value produced but rather by market value of labor. Risks when dealing with labor force should be already priced in.

Sure, and the policy is good, but there is still an impact on the company. Most situations that will be a large company which can easily cope, but in small companies struggling to survive is can have an locally detrimental effect (despite the company benefiting from the policy as a whole)

What makes you think that the small companies are struggling to survive? And from all of the policies in Germany that exist to "protect" the employees (minimum wage, employer share of pension contribution, health insurance, etc) what makes you think that this particular policy deserves such special concern?