Sheldan

Who, in their right mind, thought other countries would pay them?

I have had enough times in which this was not the case, so dispute the percentage. But this can be the case, yes.

I don't see the issue with recommending a generic instance, if your intend is to convert the generic user. It certainly is a better experience than saying 'ok, so choose what you like from this list of instances' and they don't even know the implications or what that means.

The overcomplication of Lemmy is an issue, and this behavior tries to avoid that.

Bin auch dieser Meinung.

Fuck no

It can be free, but people creating a distro can ask for money. Mostly it's free tho, and you probably can enter a custom amount of 0.

Yes, because the union contract defines the absolute minimum of the rate, and union members can also earn more.

This will be my last response, it's frustrating, these are basic principles of how these contracts work and I'm tired of explaining it.

The contract negotiated by the unions just defines the minimum, union members can earn more.

That's just personal negotiation then. And nothing that this top level comment was talking about.

You are saying it's union members vs non union members being separated.

And it's not.

The people the contract is with, maybe all employees of the company have the agreement.

You are thinking way too much into that statement, the way I described is the way it works here, and that seems much more likely tbh.

I don't read it like that. The sentence just says that their pay rate has that amount, not that it is connected to them not being a union member.