Typical dues are 1-2% of pay

A lot of us in the US still pay rent in checks. I get them from my bank in books of a hundred, and there’s no upper limit on how big they can be.

Anything that risks bouncing requires getting a fancy check (certified) where they take the money out before issuing the check.

It’s mostly software engineers, and distributed across almost every team.

These layoffs didn’t happen because Google is out of money. It’s insanely profitable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guyana–Venezuela_territorial_dispute summarizes the history. I think what Guyana wants is the status quo.

I’m an anarchist, and my take is that anarchism isn’t pacifism, and “no coercion” is a bad summary. It’s more about the absence of hierarchical coercion and instead distribution of power to all people and communities.

If you’re going around burning down houses, your anarchist neighbors are going to use force to take away your matches and gasoline if you don’t stop.

Left libertarianism was first… But nowadays it only exists to “well actually” people with, at least in the US.