Employers demonstrated their infidelity to their staff by paying loyal workers, on average, 7% less than new hires — 20 years ago, salaries were largely the same between new and longtime employees.

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    9 months ago

    Reason is a hyper pro-capitalist libertarian magazine who, in an interview with then-governor Ronald Reagan, implied he was too liberal because he didn’t think fire departments should be privatized.

    I wouldn’t trust them with this kind of survey, in other words.

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      9 months ago

      I just linked to the Reason article since that is what the OP article links to. A different organization actually performed the 1995 survey.

      Although, I haven’t been able to find the original survey with a very brief Google search. So maybe take the Reason summary with a grain of salt.

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        Yeah, all I’m saying is to take it with a grain of salt.

        When a publication like Reason writes about a survey that backs their narrative, it’s possible that it came from a conservative organization (and so might have crafted the study to produce the results they wanted rather than having an impartial scientific approach).

        The other likely possibility is that they cherry picked a survey that happened to have the results they want. Even in scientific surveys there’s going to be variability, and it’s never a good idea to base an opinion off of a single survey for that reason alone.