with a safety net Uber couldn't get enough drivers at the wages they're willing to pay. I've take 2 Ubers and 2 Lyfts in my lifetime. 3 were people recently laid off and one was somebody who's job was outsourced to Mumbai and was making significantly less now. Of the 4 only 1 was doing it for 'extra' money (to save for a trip) and at her income level odds were good those 'savings' were going to get eaten up by car maintenance and/or some minor emergency.
Basically Uber only works because folks are desperate. I forget who said it but it's a great point: Uber is a Payday Loan where the interest is wear and tear on your car. And like a Payday Loan it's a bad deal.
because I don't know a lot of young alt-righters who are also tech savvy enough to be posting on/.. If it really is mostly new Ids then it's probably professional trolls:(...
it's only a matter of how much they pay. But that won't change how they treat employees as contractors when it's convenient for them. Still no benefits, not workman's comp, no unemployment insurance payments and no matching Social Security or Medicare payments.
It's especially bad for SS & Medicare. The 'gig' economy is going to be a big part of dismantling what's left of the safety net. It'll pull billions out of those systems and then the right wing will point to a lack of funds as a reason to privatize the system (they don't want to do away with it, they want to pocket the money for themselves...)
but don't think they're working class hasn't noticed. This isn't going to sound pleasant, but I don't know a 'nice' way to put this. Muslim immigrants in Europe aren't assimilating. That's causing huge problems because they're a ready made target for their right wing. Right wing's the world over use non-assimilating immigrants to drive their agendas. They can point to them as the cause of lower wages (and it doesn't help that for a lot of blue collar folks they're right) while playing on people's general fear and dislike of anything not like them.
It hasn't taken too much hold in Germany because they're deathly afraid of their right wing (e.g. neo-Nazis, real ones) but in France it's become a huge issue. Their mega corps are using it to get in power and strip those same workers of their protections. Just like Donald Trump did with the Mexican immigrants.
the courts are pretty well stacked with a pro corporate / anti-worker bias. The folks who favor Uber's model have been taking over the courts by winning local elections via heavy money spending and gerrymandering for 20 years. I guess it's just another example of our "post-truth" society. If Uber was going to lose on facts they would have done so by now. Hell, they've more or less won every court case so far. Worker's rights went out the window when the blue collar and white collar guys started fighting among themselves and solidarity went out the window...
Are you seriously that dense? Or do you work for one of those Russian pro trolling sites? If you do see your boss, you need to brush up on your work.
Should a woman who gets beaten by her husband stick around because it's a "good economic move"? If you're answer is yes, then I suppose in that light, yeah, keep driving for Uber without complaint. Just ask your sugar daddy to buy you some nice sunglasses to cover up the bruises.
give it 20 years with the current policies and we'll get there. We were there for hundreds, if not thousands of years. The current situation where people aren't constantly being abused everywhere is a blink the the eye (and if you live in large swaths of China or India not what's happening at all). What makes us 1st world countries such a bunch of precious little snowflakes that It Can't Happen Here, huh?
It's a luxury good. It gets a lot iffier when you start talking about health care. And basic housing. And enough access to food that you can't be pressured into effective slavery. Do the folks in China working 16 hour shifts 6 days a week really have a choice?
No market is ever free. Money is power. The one who controls your access to food, water, shelter and health care controls _you_. You can either support democratic socialism, dream of joining the ruling elite (you're on/., so it's safe to say you haven't done that yet) or wallow in the muck while dragging us all down with you. Even if you don't choose one of those 3 options one will be chosen _for_ you.
they realized the exact opposite. Pity you didn't. Uber controls what the drivers charge, what they drive (minimum standards and all) and punishes them if they don't work when told to (by locking them out of the app for declining low paying rides). That's not a contract gig, that's employment.
but my God, you make a good point in all that. I'd been noticing how far right/. had moved and wondering why for some time. It hadn't occurred to me that they'd just aged into right wing politics like their parents from the 60s did... Hows that saying go? Everything old is new again...
who's never had a rent check bounce. Or never had to pay out of pocket to fix a kid's broken arm. Or been born in a rust belt town when the last factory just left and/or automated.
That's the essence of modern American Slavery. Nobody's _ever_ forcing you. You're completely free to starve to death and die in the streets. It's why the South abandoned real slavery. Wage Slavery is ever so much more cost effective.
but if Clinton was using leaches then Trump's Trepanation. His cabinet pick's alone make that obvious. Robert Reich pointed out that every single person he's appointed is on record saying they're opposed to the purpose of the department they'll be heading....
so no, no chance there. He's pushing 80 for God's sake.
And you're forgetting how many 'Blue Dog' and social liberals there are. The Republicans have a much stronger position because they have two basic issues: Low taxes and no regulation for the wealthy and right wing evangelicalism for the bible thumpers (with all the guns, none of the Gays or Abortions). It's real easy to keep those groups together.
Dems have to balance our economic regressive/social liberals with socialists, environmentalists and civil rights activists. We're a much, much looser coalition. That's why Hilary couldn't get the vote out. She was walking too fine a line and tripped over it.
The sad thing is things are probably going to have to go to shit for 80% of the population before we start seeing progress again. It's been like this since I was a kid. Republicans deregulation and wreck the economy, Dems move in and fix it up, folks get complacent and want the Republicans back because instead of slow steady growth they promise the world. Lather, rinse, repeat. Savings and Loan,.com bust, housing bust. Over and over and over again.
it's nothing more than what the majority of Americans, without the distortion of a Republican government designed from the ground up to mute their voices, wanted.
When anyone's talking about the popular vote, that's what they mean.
is give your stuff away to the schools. The tax write offs basically pay for the whole thing and in 10-15 years the kids hit the job market trained on your software (on the public's dime, no less).
Not that I oppose computers in education, but we should be buying what's needed directly instead of these round about scams where we pay for it anyway with tax write offs. That way kids get what they actually can use instead of what the mega corps want them to have.
These companies have the potential to make billions with only a handful of employees. That's where the ruling class is putting all their chips. They're trying to find ways to make a ton of money without all those pesky employees getting in the way with their wages and benefits and pensions. When one out of a hundred of these companies takes off it pays for all the rest of the failures (which are tax write offs anyway)
tax evasion schemes. This is not one of them. I often wonder if these sorts of stories are an attempt by mainstream media to go after 'safe' financial targets. They can't do real journalism against our corporate overlords because, well, those are their bosses. Hell, look what happened to Gawker when they went after a member of the ruling class (Thiel, not that jerk Hogan). Dead before they hit the ground, I tell ya.
what difference does it make? That's the trouble with letting these Mega-corps keep all their profits instead of taxing the heck out of 'em. It sounds good on paper (after all, who are we to take somebody's money from them) but when they start throwing all that weight around you mega merger after mega merger. And thanks to upcomming changes in tax law they're about to bring 1 trillion back to the country and use most of it for mergers & acquisitions. We'll be seeing a massing round of layoffs over the next 4-8 years as these tech companies merge like crazy...
Though I'm not saying we couldn't lose all tech. There's a sizable portion of the population that would like to see that happen since science conflicts with their world view (in more ways than one). I think as long as we keep those people in check we'll be fine though.
since evolution at that scale is hard to predict. There are other factors at play (e.g. how many children you have, your level of intelligence and other abilities, whether you're children will have the same troubles you have, etc, etc).
Idiocracy was funny and all, but it's not science. And speaking of science, the human body is a machine, and we're capable of fully understanding it if we try. Maybe not in your lifetime or mine, but soon. Now, if we can just get the damn anti-science folks clamped down before they send us into another dark age...
so they're the public face representing the interests of those record companies and setting the policies and tone for those companies. It's like the NRA. They're a trade group.
is still more than 100% of nothing, but with some of the contracts out there the band ends up in debt paying off their "advances". 100% of 0 is better than 10% of -$100,000.
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with a safety net Uber couldn't get enough drivers at the wages they're willing to pay. I've take 2 Ubers and 2 Lyfts in my lifetime. 3 were people recently laid off and one was somebody who's job was outsourced to Mumbai and was making significantly less now. Of the 4 only 1 was doing it for 'extra' money (to save for a trip) and at her income level odds were good those 'savings' were going to get eaten up by car maintenance and/or some minor emergency.
Basically Uber only works because folks are desperate. I forget who said it but it's a great point: Uber is a Payday Loan where the interest is wear and tear on your car. And like a Payday Loan it's a bad deal.
because I don't know a lot of young alt-righters who are also tech savvy enough to be posting on /.. If it really is mostly new Ids then it's probably professional trolls :(...
it's only a matter of how much they pay. But that won't change how they treat employees as contractors when it's convenient for them. Still no benefits, not workman's comp, no unemployment insurance payments and no matching Social Security or Medicare payments.
It's especially bad for SS & Medicare. The 'gig' economy is going to be a big part of dismantling what's left of the safety net. It'll pull billions out of those systems and then the right wing will point to a lack of funds as a reason to privatize the system (they don't want to do away with it, they want to pocket the money for themselves...)
but don't think they're working class hasn't noticed. This isn't going to sound pleasant, but I don't know a 'nice' way to put this. Muslim immigrants in Europe aren't assimilating. That's causing huge problems because they're a ready made target for their right wing. Right wing's the world over use non-assimilating immigrants to drive their agendas. They can point to them as the cause of lower wages (and it doesn't help that for a lot of blue collar folks they're right) while playing on people's general fear and dislike of anything not like them.
It hasn't taken too much hold in Germany because they're deathly afraid of their right wing (e.g. neo-Nazis, real ones) but in France it's become a huge issue. Their mega corps are using it to get in power and strip those same workers of their protections. Just like Donald Trump did with the Mexican immigrants.
the courts are pretty well stacked with a pro corporate / anti-worker bias. The folks who favor Uber's model have been taking over the courts by winning local elections via heavy money spending and gerrymandering for 20 years. I guess it's just another example of our "post-truth" society. If Uber was going to lose on facts they would have done so by now. Hell, they've more or less won every court case so far. Worker's rights went out the window when the blue collar and white collar guys started fighting among themselves and solidarity went out the window...
thanks for posting what you can. We could use more old timers like you.
Are you seriously that dense? Or do you work for one of those Russian pro trolling sites? If you do see your boss, you need to brush up on your work.
Should a woman who gets beaten by her husband stick around because it's a "good economic move"? If you're answer is yes, then I suppose in that light, yeah, keep driving for Uber without complaint. Just ask your sugar daddy to buy you some nice sunglasses to cover up the bruises.
give it 20 years with the current policies and we'll get there. We were there for hundreds, if not thousands of years. The current situation where people aren't constantly being abused everywhere is a blink the the eye (and if you live in large swaths of China or India not what's happening at all). What makes us 1st world countries such a bunch of precious little snowflakes that It Can't Happen Here, huh?
It's a luxury good. It gets a lot iffier when you start talking about health care. And basic housing. And enough access to food that you can't be pressured into effective slavery. Do the folks in China working 16 hour shifts 6 days a week really have a choice?
/., so it's safe to say you haven't done that yet) or wallow in the muck while dragging us all down with you. Even if you don't choose one of those 3 options one will be chosen _for_ you.
No market is ever free. Money is power. The one who controls your access to food, water, shelter and health care controls _you_. You can either support democratic socialism, dream of joining the ruling elite (you're on
they realized the exact opposite. Pity you didn't. Uber controls what the drivers charge, what they drive (minimum standards and all) and punishes them if they don't work when told to (by locking them out of the app for declining low paying rides). That's not a contract gig, that's employment.
but my God, you make a good point in all that. I'd been noticing how far right /. had moved and wondering why for some time. It hadn't occurred to me that they'd just aged into right wing politics like their parents from the 60s did... Hows that saying go? Everything old is new again...
who's never had a rent check bounce. Or never had to pay out of pocket to fix a kid's broken arm. Or been born in a rust belt town when the last factory just left and/or automated.
That's the essence of modern American Slavery. Nobody's _ever_ forcing you. You're completely free to starve to death and die in the streets. It's why the South abandoned real slavery. Wage Slavery is ever so much more cost effective.
but if Clinton was using leaches then Trump's Trepanation. His cabinet pick's alone make that obvious. Robert Reich pointed out that every single person he's appointed is on record saying they're opposed to the purpose of the department they'll be heading....
anyway. Oh, and if you work in a retail store or drive a cab/Uber (retail will get killed by Amazon as soon as self driving is a reality)
so no, no chance there. He's pushing 80 for God's sake.
.com bust, housing bust. Over and over and over again.
And you're forgetting how many 'Blue Dog' and social liberals there are. The Republicans have a much stronger position because they have two basic issues: Low taxes and no regulation for the wealthy and right wing evangelicalism for the bible thumpers (with all the guns, none of the Gays or Abortions). It's real easy to keep those groups together.
Dems have to balance our economic regressive/social liberals with socialists, environmentalists and civil rights activists. We're a much, much looser coalition. That's why Hilary couldn't get the vote out. She was walking too fine a line and tripped over it.
The sad thing is things are probably going to have to go to shit for 80% of the population before we start seeing progress again. It's been like this since I was a kid. Republicans deregulation and wreck the economy, Dems move in and fix it up, folks get complacent and want the Republicans back because instead of slow steady growth they promise the world. Lather, rinse, repeat. Savings and Loan,
it's nothing more than what the majority of Americans, without the distortion of a Republican government designed from the ground up to mute their voices, wanted.
When anyone's talking about the popular vote, that's what they mean.
is give your stuff away to the schools. The tax write offs basically pay for the whole thing and in 10-15 years the kids hit the job market trained on your software (on the public's dime, no less).
Not that I oppose computers in education, but we should be buying what's needed directly instead of these round about scams where we pay for it anyway with tax write offs. That way kids get what they actually can use instead of what the mega corps want them to have.
Google wrote it off their taxes.
These companies have the potential to make billions with only a handful of employees. That's where the ruling class is putting all their chips. They're trying to find ways to make a ton of money without all those pesky employees getting in the way with their wages and benefits and pensions. When one out of a hundred of these companies takes off it pays for all the rest of the failures (which are tax write offs anyway)
tax evasion schemes. This is not one of them. I often wonder if these sorts of stories are an attempt by mainstream media to go after 'safe' financial targets. They can't do real journalism against our corporate overlords because, well, those are their bosses. Hell, look what happened to Gawker when they went after a member of the ruling class (Thiel, not that jerk Hogan). Dead before they hit the ground, I tell ya.
what difference does it make? That's the trouble with letting these Mega-corps keep all their profits instead of taxing the heck out of 'em. It sounds good on paper (after all, who are we to take somebody's money from them) but when they start throwing all that weight around you mega merger after mega merger. And thanks to upcomming changes in tax law they're about to bring 1 trillion back to the country and use most of it for mergers & acquisitions. We'll be seeing a massing round of layoffs over the next 4-8 years as these tech companies merge like crazy...
Though I'm not saying we couldn't lose all tech. There's a sizable portion of the population that would like to see that happen since science conflicts with their world view (in more ways than one). I think as long as we keep those people in check we'll be fine though.
since evolution at that scale is hard to predict. There are other factors at play (e.g. how many children you have, your level of intelligence and other abilities, whether you're children will have the same troubles you have, etc, etc).
Idiocracy was funny and all, but it's not science. And speaking of science, the human body is a machine, and we're capable of fully understanding it if we try. Maybe not in your lifetime or mine, but soon. Now, if we can just get the damn anti-science folks clamped down before they send us into another dark age...
so they're the public face representing the interests of those record companies and setting the policies and tone for those companies. It's like the NRA. They're a trade group.
is still more than 100% of nothing, but with some of the contracts out there the band ends up in debt paying off their "advances". 100% of 0 is better than 10% of -$100,000.