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What's something that's not common knowledge but you think everyone should know? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Specifically thinking of stuff that make your life better in the long run but all kinds of answers are welcome!

I've recently learnt about lifetraps and it's made a huge positive impact on how I view myself and my relationships

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That still means 91% of your job is mitigating legal repercussions/liability.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

... which makes sense, because the reason some actions have legal repercussions is that people have passed laws for the purpose of discouraging them!

We have sexual harassment liability laws because we expect that if we make companies have HR departments that tell managers to not sexually harass their employees, then somewhat less sexual harassment will happen than without those laws.

The law isn't just there to compensate victims, but to align the company's incentive ("we don't want to pay out a bunch of money") with the worker's incentive ("I don't want to be sexually harassed"). The company can avoid paying out a lot of money by not tolerating sexual harassment in the workplace.

It doesn't always work out that way, because corruption springs eternal; but I expect more nonconsenting asses would be grabbed if it weren't someone's job to say "don't grab asses in the workplace".

Mitigating legal repercussions is a good thing!