because if it existed they'd have to pitch in tax dollars to pay for it. If it were they could jump on Bernie Sander's Medicare for All bandwagon. What they want is a system where their drivers pay for the benefits Of course, we have that now; only the drivers aren't paid well enough to afford health care on their own. This is a dodge. A distraction meant to keep single payer from happening. Nothing more.
This is about the worst thing to come out of Uber yet. Rather than support a single payer system (that they're afraid they might have to chip in for) they want 'portable' benefits. e.g. completely paid for by the (underpaid) drivers. The best part is this makes it sound like he's doing it for the little guy when all he's really doing is trying to divert attention away from the fact that his company broke one of the fundamental social contracts in America (to wit: "Work for us and we'll take care of your healthcare).
How the hell are you going to do business like that? Do you have any idea how many companies don't have IT staff who understand TCP/IP networking but somehow are in charge of it? How much do you think it would cost when your network constantly has to be reconfigured to allow connectivity by IP and/or expiring certs rather than passwords?
Unless highly skilled IT workers get a hell of a lot cheaper then this is pie in the sky. The cost of a breach is still less than the cost of wages needed to keep a scheme like this working _and_ have a functional network.
Here's a scary article for you. There are cops out there making $10.50/hr working part time. Less than a Wal-Mart Greeter. At those prices beggars can't be choosers and cops who've been fired for misconduct get hired by cash strapped departments who can't afford the $140k it takes to train up an officer. This is what happens when you slash taxes non-stop for 30 years. The government doesn't waste nearly as much money as people think. Sooner than later those cuts need to come from somewhere real.
And it's been incredibly useful. There's all sorts of nasty things businesses don't do because California won't let them and it's too expensive to run two lines of production (one for Cal and one for the parts of America where people don't get to vote). You shouldn't be content with your 'betters' telling you what to do. You should want your vote to count and be weighted equally.
Hilary was run because she was popular with the billionaires who basically run things. Between Hilary and Trump they'd have taken either one, but they made damn sure we didn't get Bernie. Already I'm seeing stuff like top ten Democratic contenders lists without Bernie on them. The mainstream media (CNN, MSNBC, etc) are doing their best to pretend he and the actual American Left don't exist.
Meanwhile the Republicans took both the House and Senate but lost the popular vote both times. And not by small margins. Dems took home 55% of the votes in the last round of elections to 45% on the Republican side and _still_ lost the House and Senate. You can't even blame that on Gerrymandering since the Rs took the Senate. And then there's Trump's victory despite losing the popular vote by 3%.
It's getting difficult to even pretend we live in a democracy anymore... I don't know what's worse, that these statistics exist or that our government doesn't even have to bother covering them up.
unless the electorate turns on the Republican party. That's really what doomed Nixon. I don't see that happening. There's not a lot of difference between the Dems & the Rs right now (excluding Abortion & maybe Gay rights). There's a movement in the Democratic party to change that but so far they've been successfully shut out by the party leaders, even after the huge loss to Trump.
nobody, and I mean nobody, believes they're going to end up as the toilet cleaner, much less one of the ones dying of starvation. Everybody thinks they'll join Galt with the rest of doers and the makers.
and it's up to me whether I want to give my money. And if you want to give your money away go right ahead. But don't take my money (at the barrel of a gun, always at the barrel of a gun, because that's how taxes work) away from me and make me give it to someone else. Who I give my money to is my decision.
These are the arguments you're going to hear when we start getting serious about UBI. And as for the part about the 'barrel of a gun', well, it's not wrong. In the past when income inequality has gotten really bad there's been violence against the aristocracy and merchant class. To be fair the only thing that got them to part with any money whatsoever was violence. But it would be nice if somebody could come up with a peaceful solution. I haven't yet. I haven't found a way to shut down right wingers and libertarians when they say the above to me.
I'll be too busy joining a roving gang of bandits to just go wandering about. Somebody has to use violence against the weak for political and financial gain now, don't they? That's something you'll never fully automate.
not to work? The phrase "Those who don't work don't eat" exists in just about every culture. And the American political system's seen welfare used as a defining wedge issue of our political system since Reagan.
_Airlines_ are not. We've let the major airlines buy out their competitors left and right, leading to a lot less competition. But that wasn't natural. There was a lot of incompetence on the part of several airlines (bad fuel contracts come to mind) and a few went tits up. Normally you'd see some new competitors in the wake of those shake ups, but we've stopped enforcing anti-trust laws making it far too risky. If we'd crack down on anti-competitive pricing you'd see some new airlines, but fat chance of that.
it's a major part of the discussion. A big part of NN is allowing a startup to join the big players and disrupt the industry if they've got the tech and a good idea. You can't beat the established players without NN because you won't be able to buy enough bandwidth. Hell, even if you could exclusivity deals will kill you deader than Elvis.
fan boys are more likely to slag on something that doesn't meet their expectations. Hell hath no fury like a fanboy scorned. Bright OTOH has no expectations since it's a new property.
especially on the Christian right & among evangelicals. Still this guy is full of it. The public health risks to Facebook alone are a fraction of smoking. Plus there isn't a concerted effort on the part of Facebook to downplay those risks. We ought to keep a close eye on social media vis-a-vis fake news but we don't quite need the same level of regulatory muscle as tobacco companies get.
and telecom (anyone remember the John Oliver bit where he showed AT&T had bought up all the Bells they'd been forced to break off from?).
All I can say is good luck. You're trying to fix something that's fundamentally broken. It didn't work when we did it to AT&T. Better to regulate and live with the reality of mega-corps than to pretend you can break up these kinds of large power structures.
notices. Also there are explicit exceptions to gambling laws for non-profits, charities and government organizations in many places (which is why churches can do Bingo night). Card games generally publish the odds of getting the merchandise.
There's also finite limits to the amount of feedback you can give with a card game. You open the pack and that's that. With a video game, especially an online one, there's all sorts of nasty tricks that can be played. Call of Duty for example makes it a point to show all the other players the loot box being opened to great fan fare.
to shut them down. Microsoft used to do it all the time. $25 million is a small price to pay to shut down upstart new media. Meanwhile Bernie Sanders had to go on youtube to get coverage for his Medicare For All townhall.
had some sense of the gravity of their position. Trump (and his people) don't. He's way, way in over his head. He wasn't supposed to win. It's only the astonishing arrogance and incompetence of Hilary Clinton that made it possible.
and he's going to be up for reelection at some point. And it's not just Trump, it's all his 'the best people'. We handed nukes to a bunch of grifters who grew up with silver spoons in their mouths. If it were me I'd have shaved at least a minute off the clock.
and they were heavy on GUI tools to build apps. It reminded me of VBA. I think that's what he means. You don't have to set up your own UI or learn a markup language.
That's all he needs to say. The damage from occasional breach by criminals will be dwarf by the gains from proper law enforcement. His arguments will be non technical. They'll pass the 'truthiness' test. Emotional if you will. To be honest such arguments usually win out in the end, if only because the people making them keep pushing for it.
what makes you stick with the Rs? They've been pushing the 'Tough on Crime' / 'Think of the Children' agenda for ages. Sure, Clinton (Bill) pushed it too, but largely to court Republicans. While I'm not saying the Dems are saints I think it'd be much easier to purge and/or marginalize the corporatist schelps & authoritarian types from their party than the Rs.
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because if it existed they'd have to pitch in tax dollars to pay for it. If it were they could jump on Bernie Sander's Medicare for All bandwagon. What they want is a system where their drivers pay for the benefits Of course, we have that now; only the drivers aren't paid well enough to afford health care on their own. This is a dodge. A distraction meant to keep single payer from happening. Nothing more.
This is about the worst thing to come out of Uber yet. Rather than support a single payer system (that they're afraid they might have to chip in for) they want 'portable' benefits. e.g. completely paid for by the (underpaid) drivers. The best part is this makes it sound like he's doing it for the little guy when all he's really doing is trying to divert attention away from the fact that his company broke one of the fundamental social contracts in America (to wit: "Work for us and we'll take care of your healthcare).
How the hell are you going to do business like that? Do you have any idea how many companies don't have IT staff who understand TCP/IP networking but somehow are in charge of it? How much do you think it would cost when your network constantly has to be reconfigured to allow connectivity by IP and/or expiring certs rather than passwords?
Unless highly skilled IT workers get a hell of a lot cheaper then this is pie in the sky. The cost of a breach is still less than the cost of wages needed to keep a scheme like this working _and_ have a functional network.
Here's a scary article for you. There are cops out there making $10.50/hr working part time. Less than a Wal-Mart Greeter. At those prices beggars can't be choosers and cops who've been fired for misconduct get hired by cash strapped departments who can't afford the $140k it takes to train up an officer. This is what happens when you slash taxes non-stop for 30 years. The government doesn't waste nearly as much money as people think. Sooner than later those cuts need to come from somewhere real.
And it's been incredibly useful. There's all sorts of nasty things businesses don't do because California won't let them and it's too expensive to run two lines of production (one for Cal and one for the parts of America where people don't get to vote). You shouldn't be content with your 'betters' telling you what to do. You should want your vote to count and be weighted equally.
Hilary was run because she was popular with the billionaires who basically run things. Between Hilary and Trump they'd have taken either one, but they made damn sure we didn't get Bernie. Already I'm seeing stuff like top ten Democratic contenders lists without Bernie on them. The mainstream media (CNN, MSNBC, etc) are doing their best to pretend he and the actual American Left don't exist.
Meanwhile the Republicans took both the House and Senate but lost the popular vote both times. And not by small margins. Dems took home 55% of the votes in the last round of elections to 45% on the Republican side and _still_ lost the House and Senate. You can't even blame that on Gerrymandering since the Rs took the Senate. And then there's Trump's victory despite losing the popular vote by 3%.
It's getting difficult to even pretend we live in a democracy anymore... I don't know what's worse, that these statistics exist or that our government doesn't even have to bother covering them up.
unless the electorate turns on the Republican party. That's really what doomed Nixon. I don't see that happening. There's not a lot of difference between the Dems & the Rs right now (excluding Abortion & maybe Gay rights). There's a movement in the Democratic party to change that but so far they've been successfully shut out by the party leaders, even after the huge loss to Trump.
nobody, and I mean nobody, believes they're going to end up as the toilet cleaner, much less one of the ones dying of starvation. Everybody thinks they'll join Galt with the rest of doers and the makers.
you'll clean my toilets or die of starvation and thirst.
and it's up to me whether I want to give my money. And if you want to give your money away go right ahead. But don't take my money (at the barrel of a gun, always at the barrel of a gun, because that's how taxes work) away from me and make me give it to someone else. Who I give my money to is my decision.
These are the arguments you're going to hear when we start getting serious about UBI. And as for the part about the 'barrel of a gun', well, it's not wrong. In the past when income inequality has gotten really bad there's been violence against the aristocracy and merchant class. To be fair the only thing that got them to part with any money whatsoever was violence. But it would be nice if somebody could come up with a peaceful solution. I haven't yet. I haven't found a way to shut down right wingers and libertarians when they say the above to me.
I'll be too busy joining a roving gang of bandits to just go wandering about. Somebody has to use violence against the weak for political and financial gain now, don't they? That's something you'll never fully automate.
not to work? The phrase "Those who don't work don't eat" exists in just about every culture. And the American political system's seen welfare used as a defining wedge issue of our political system since Reagan.
_Airlines_ are not. We've let the major airlines buy out their competitors left and right, leading to a lot less competition. But that wasn't natural. There was a lot of incompetence on the part of several airlines (bad fuel contracts come to mind) and a few went tits up. Normally you'd see some new competitors in the wake of those shake ups, but we've stopped enforcing anti-trust laws making it far too risky. If we'd crack down on anti-competitive pricing you'd see some new airlines, but fat chance of that.
it's a major part of the discussion. A big part of NN is allowing a startup to join the big players and disrupt the industry if they've got the tech and a good idea. You can't beat the established players without NN because you won't be able to buy enough bandwidth. Hell, even if you could exclusivity deals will kill you deader than Elvis.
fan boys are more likely to slag on something that doesn't meet their expectations. Hell hath no fury like a fanboy scorned. Bright OTOH has no expectations since it's a new property.
especially on the Christian right & among evangelicals. Still this guy is full of it. The public health risks to Facebook alone are a fraction of smoking. Plus there isn't a concerted effort on the part of Facebook to downplay those risks. We ought to keep a close eye on social media vis-a-vis fake news but we don't quite need the same level of regulatory muscle as tobacco companies get.
and telecom (anyone remember the John Oliver bit where he showed AT&T had bought up all the Bells they'd been forced to break off from?).
All I can say is good luck. You're trying to fix something that's fundamentally broken. It didn't work when we did it to AT&T. Better to regulate and live with the reality of mega-corps than to pretend you can break up these kinds of large power structures.
notices. Also there are explicit exceptions to gambling laws for non-profits, charities and government organizations in many places (which is why churches can do Bingo night). Card games generally publish the odds of getting the merchandise.
There's also finite limits to the amount of feedback you can give with a card game. You open the pack and that's that. With a video game, especially an online one, there's all sorts of nasty tricks that can be played. Call of Duty for example makes it a point to show all the other players the loot box being opened to great fan fare.
when it does you discipline and/or fire the people involved. Lyft and Uber both have done terrible things. But this? This is a big 'ole nothingburger.
to shut them down. Microsoft used to do it all the time. $25 million is a small price to pay to shut down upstart new media. Meanwhile Bernie Sanders had to go on youtube to get coverage for his Medicare For All townhall.
had some sense of the gravity of their position. Trump (and his people) don't. He's way, way in over his head. He wasn't supposed to win. It's only the astonishing arrogance and incompetence of Hilary Clinton that made it possible.
and he's going to be up for reelection at some point. And it's not just Trump, it's all his 'the best people'. We handed nukes to a bunch of grifters who grew up with silver spoons in their mouths. If it were me I'd have shaved at least a minute off the clock.
and they were heavy on GUI tools to build apps. It reminded me of VBA. I think that's what he means. You don't have to set up your own UI or learn a markup language.
That's all he needs to say. The damage from occasional breach by criminals will be dwarf by the gains from proper law enforcement. His arguments will be non technical. They'll pass the 'truthiness' test. Emotional if you will. To be honest such arguments usually win out in the end, if only because the people making them keep pushing for it.
what makes you stick with the Rs? They've been pushing the 'Tough on Crime' / 'Think of the Children' agenda for ages. Sure, Clinton (Bill) pushed it too, but largely to court Republicans. While I'm not saying the Dems are saints I think it'd be much easier to purge and/or marginalize the corporatist schelps & authoritarian types from their party than the Rs.