but the cost of higher education was always, well, high. We just like to forget the massive federal subsidies we got in the 90s. To be fair it wasn't Reagan who cut them, it was Clinton/Bush jr. But Reagan's administration (along with Karl Rove) created the notion of 'starve the beast) that underpinned the cuts. The idea, crammed into our skulls over and over again, that We Can't Afford It, usually because of debt (nevermind that a modest capital gains plus repatrioting 2 trillion sitting off shore could take care of the debt in short order). The idea is to load the gov't with debt by massively cutting taxes on the wealth (and modestly on the poor and middle class) while increasing spending until the whole thing collapse. Just google the phrase and you'll get better explainations than I can give.
So yeah, I'm going off on right wingers. I've also got damned good reason to. I've thought this through, you haven't. Please start. Please. We're losing everything to guys like you drinking Karl Rove's Koolaid...:(
that this will reduce tuition paid because the foreign students subsidize local students. As someone trying to come up with the money to send a kid to college I know full well this is bullshit, but what can I do? 30 years of Reagenomics and Starve the Beast means anyone not in the top 10% is boned...
Wish we could do something about it, but good luck. Nobody gives a shit. Hell, us techies laughed at the blue collar folks while they were losing their jobs overseas. We kept voting in right wing free trade jerks and telling them to 'retrain!'. Why the hell should we expect them to give a fuck now.
Or living in a very, very liberal district. There's lots of ways. The most common is just to make the employees contract to hire and never actually hire them. You can also move the site to somewhere they can't get to and declare anyone that doesn't move has quit. You can cut pay/benefits/hours until they're more or less forced to quit. These are just the one's I've seen first hand. If all else fails most states use arbitration to decide if unemployment benefits were legitimate. Wait 6 months and sue the employee to get your benefits back. The Arbitrator is appointed by the local chamber of commerce or some other right wing, pro business group. They'll side with you.
I meant what I said. You're safety net's gone. Clinton & the blue dogs started dismantling it in the 90s and Bush finished the job. Now would be a good time to notice and do something about it...
That sort of control is what an employer gets, not an informational based contracting service that only seeks to link buyers and sellers. If I want to sell something on ebay I put my price up. If I decide to keep my item because nobody will pay my price then Ebay doesn't get to tell me to sell it for less just because they want their cut of the fees. Uber sets the price. They also exercise control over your choice to accept working for that price. That's what we have traditionally called 'employment'...
and inflation you'd be very, very lucky if you had the savings to say no. Also, at least here in Arizona businesses have a million ways to weasel out of unemployment, and Georgia isn't exactly well know as a bastion of workers rights. There really isn't a safety net out there, and unless you're very, very lucky you won't be knitting one yourself...
and if it's one thing I know about folks who've been laid off, they have no trouble affording lawyers. They're certainly not vulnerable after 20 years of outsourcing.
Check here. Didn't take long to find it either. That said, Uber doesn't explicitly 'fire' folks any more. But then again neither did the fast food place I worked at as a kid. Just cut your hours/pay until you're basically fired. There's other nastiness they do, but you'll have to google to get the specifics.
why not just get a chrome book? They'll have email, netflix, Word processors, etc and if it breaks the OS is in ROM. Hit a few buttons and it's back to normal. Just make sure they're using cloud storage and their set.
if Uber wins. They can't compete. There are a tonne of regulations they must follow. They're background checks are much more thorough and costly. Their drivers carry much more insurance (as do they). They're legally required to take unprofitable fares. As has been pointed out multiple times Uber externalizes costs that Taxi cab companies face daily.
Also Right now Uber is in growth mode. They're spending investor money. That ends after the Taxi cab companies go away. They'll cut unprofitable routes and fairs. Maybe not directly (they won't want the bad press) but indirectly by either pricing those fairs so high they're not practical for the rider or driver or just plain letting the driver turn them down (btw, today if drivers turn down a lot of fares Uber fires them).
I'll answer your question with my own: If you live in the South, what's stopping you from shopping at an independently owned grocer instead of Walmart?
and if they turn down too many fairs Uber fires them. Also Uber is dependent on them for their ongoing business needs. Uber doesn't have a business without their labor. That makes them employees. Not contractors.
Automation is rapidly replacing them. Foxconn is already starting. They're doing it slowly to prevent social unrest, but they have the tech to replace them all in less than a year. Stephen Hawking just pointed this out during an 'ask me anything' session on twitter if you want to google it.
Capitalism is a complex system. It's not going to break down in one place. Think of it as an airplane where you can loose an engine or two before it crashes. But sooner or later you lose enough engines. The crash is gonna suck for anyone who couldn't afford a private jet.
I want _all_ employees to stop being abused. The argument that it's OK for Uber to abuse employees because someone else does it is something like what a toddler says when they're caught stealing cookies. What I don't understand is how the hell an argument this ridiculous is resonating with people.
To be 100% clear, I want _both_ groups to be treated as employees. I want to put an end to the practice employers using the word "Contractor" to get out of the social obligations we have place on them. I don't care if you're Uber, a Taxi company, and IT service company or bloody part runners for an auto shop. If your business depends on those people and you wouldn't have a business without them they're employees. If they work they do is an ongoing part of your business they're employees. If you exercise significant control over their day to day work (how and when) they're employees. Enough with the bs already. If we're going to base 90% of our quality of life on employment then employers don't get to bitch when they're given obligations. Period.
I suppose we could also move to a system of single payer health care, basic income, increased and regulated food prices ( e.g. commodities regulation, not setting the prices at the supermarket, btw. Just wanna head off the "But Communism!" nonsense ), etc, etc. But doing that meaningfully isn't going to happen quickly. If we give up our benefits in exchange for the above the 1%ers will just give us neither of them. That's kinda their thing. What's that old Dilbert joke about saying Yes and then not doing it?
some folks need less sleep to get the same amount of rest. Can we _please_ stop acting like they are the norm? The 1%ers have been doing this for ages as an excuse to get the working class to work harder for less. At least as far back as the invention of artificial light and we when we use to call those shmuks "Puritans".
Did you even read my post? I'm a favor of workers rights. I want all workers treated well. It's that simple. Nice try on the traditional "It's just extra pocket money" crap though. Are you a shill for Uber? You've got their talking points down, and your skill at misdirection is excellent. Seems your talents could be used elsewhere though. The folks that stole the Election from Al Gore would love to have you.
Just because the Taxi cab drivers are being abused doesn't mean Uber isn't abusing their drivers. Here's a crazy idea: Why don't we protect _both_ groups of workers? Crazy? I know, right?
say it again. It's not the service, it's how they treat their employees, e.g. by calling them contractors to get out of paying for their Health Care, Unemployment, tax and other benefits (as well as their commercial insurance and proper background checks). Right now Uber is externalizing all those costs. Either onto the driver or eventually society (since we more or less don't just let people die in a gutter in this country, yet...). Their entire business model falls apart as soon as those costs aren't externalized. Look at all the 'Uber for...' companies and how quickly they shut down when their told that they have to treat people who are a core part of their buiness as employees...
Uber is a race to the bottom and a sign capitalism is starting to break down...
Teachers are paid like crap and treated worse. It's like how nerds view Game Programming. Every little girl wants to do it so the employees can be abused. It doesn't help that if you're a college bound kid fresh out of high school with no idea what to do in life it seems like a great idea. You cling to what you already know so you want to stay in school forever.
When I worked in call centers there were tons of elementary & junior high teachers (with degrees) looking for work. Many with years of experience. The math science teachers had a touch less trouble finding work, but the elementary were screwed. We've been cutting education since Reagan so it makes sense. The teachers I know who are doing well are all really house wives working part time for extra cash. And we all know how undergraduates are getting screwed. Basically if you need to make enough money to support a family then you're not going to be a teacher in America.
a vehicle showing where a driver has been. E.g. if you're a politician and somebody hacks your car to show you've been frequently gay bars and brothels.
and/or nonsensical crap to scare rubes into voting Republican. Seriously, we don't even register guns in most places, you think we'll get drones registered? Then again, I could see businesses siding with this. Drone regulation is going to be important for several reasons. For example, put a camera on a drone and you can film a business pouring raw sewage into river water in violation of the law.
Still, I'm guessing this is a non-starter. Might rile up the base a little bit though.
they're legally required to offer the job to an American. Then when no one 'qualified' applies they get to bring in an H1-B. Vote Bernie, he's the only one against it all.
I sorta get your sentiment, but you didn't finish it. What exactly are they doing about it? Are they joining communes? Committing Sepuku? Otherwise there's 3 possibilities: a) they're starting their own businesses, unlikely in this economy. b) They're job hopping because that's the only way to move up in the world or c) they're having nervous breakdowns and/or being forced to quit/retire.
is to stick with Google. I run a few adds to pay for the hosting fees (it's a few hundred a year, yeah, I know I could do better but my host works and I can email their support directly). You'll know when you're site is serving Malware ads, it'll be taken off line by Firefox/Chrome warning your users that your domain is serving up viruses. It happened to the Angry Nintendo Nerd and it happened to Penny Arcade. Both of those guys do their sites full time. Mines a little hobby site for my Firefox plugin to store help docs and beta version of my plugin. I haven't got the time or the inclination to spend getting my site off black lists. So far google's managed to police their Ad network well enough that I haven't had to (knock on wood).
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He's the only candidate to oppose more H1-Bs.
but the cost of higher education was always, well, high. We just like to forget the massive federal subsidies we got in the 90s. To be fair it wasn't Reagan who cut them, it was Clinton/Bush jr. But Reagan's administration (along with Karl Rove) created the notion of 'starve the beast) that underpinned the cuts. The idea, crammed into our skulls over and over again, that We Can't Afford It, usually because of debt (nevermind that a modest capital gains plus repatrioting 2 trillion sitting off shore could take care of the debt in short order). The idea is to load the gov't with debt by massively cutting taxes on the wealth (and modestly on the poor and middle class) while increasing spending until the whole thing collapse. Just google the phrase and you'll get better explainations than I can give.
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So yeah, I'm going off on right wingers. I've also got damned good reason to. I've thought this through, you haven't. Please start. Please. We're losing everything to guys like you drinking Karl Rove's Koolaid...
that this will reduce tuition paid because the foreign students subsidize local students. As someone trying to come up with the money to send a kid to college I know full well this is bullshit, but what can I do? 30 years of Reagenomics and Starve the Beast means anyone not in the top 10% is boned...
Wish we could do something about it, but good luck. Nobody gives a shit. Hell, us techies laughed at the blue collar folks while they were losing their jobs overseas. We kept voting in right wing free trade jerks and telling them to 'retrain!'. Why the hell should we expect them to give a fuck now.
We just don't like to acknowledge them and prefer to kid ourselves into thinking were a meritocracy...
Or living in a very, very liberal district. There's lots of ways. The most common is just to make the employees contract to hire and never actually hire them. You can also move the site to somewhere they can't get to and declare anyone that doesn't move has quit. You can cut pay/benefits/hours until they're more or less forced to quit. These are just the one's I've seen first hand. If all else fails most states use arbitration to decide if unemployment benefits were legitimate. Wait 6 months and sue the employee to get your benefits back. The Arbitrator is appointed by the local chamber of commerce or some other right wing, pro business group. They'll side with you.
I meant what I said. You're safety net's gone. Clinton & the blue dogs started dismantling it in the 90s and Bush finished the job. Now would be a good time to notice and do something about it...
That sort of control is what an employer gets, not an informational based contracting service that only seeks to link buyers and sellers. If I want to sell something on ebay I put my price up. If I decide to keep my item because nobody will pay my price then Ebay doesn't get to tell me to sell it for less just because they want their cut of the fees. Uber sets the price. They also exercise control over your choice to accept working for that price. That's what we have traditionally called 'employment'...
and inflation you'd be very, very lucky if you had the savings to say no. Also, at least here in Arizona businesses have a million ways to weasel out of unemployment, and Georgia isn't exactly well know as a bastion of workers rights. There really isn't a safety net out there, and unless you're very, very lucky you won't be knitting one yourself...
and if it's one thing I know about folks who've been laid off, they have no trouble affording lawyers. They're certainly not vulnerable after 20 years of outsourcing.
Check here. Didn't take long to find it either. That said, Uber doesn't explicitly 'fire' folks any more. But then again neither did the fast food place I worked at as a kid. Just cut your hours/pay until you're basically fired. There's other nastiness they do, but you'll have to google to get the specifics.
why not just get a chrome book? They'll have email, netflix, Word processors, etc and if it breaks the OS is in ROM. Hit a few buttons and it's back to normal. Just make sure they're using cloud storage and their set.
they do, however, regulate paid endorsements. See the difference?
if Uber wins. They can't compete. There are a tonne of regulations they must follow. They're background checks are much more thorough and costly. Their drivers carry much more insurance (as do they). They're legally required to take unprofitable fares. As has been pointed out multiple times Uber externalizes costs that Taxi cab companies face daily.
Also Right now Uber is in growth mode. They're spending investor money. That ends after the Taxi cab companies go away. They'll cut unprofitable routes and fairs. Maybe not directly (they won't want the bad press) but indirectly by either pricing those fairs so high they're not practical for the rider or driver or just plain letting the driver turn them down (btw, today if drivers turn down a lot of fares Uber fires them).
I'll answer your question with my own: If you live in the South, what's stopping you from shopping at an independently owned grocer instead of Walmart?
and if they turn down too many fairs Uber fires them. Also Uber is dependent on them for their ongoing business needs. Uber doesn't have a business without their labor. That makes them employees. Not contractors.
Automation is rapidly replacing them. Foxconn is already starting. They're doing it slowly to prevent social unrest, but they have the tech to replace them all in less than a year. Stephen Hawking just pointed this out during an 'ask me anything' session on twitter if you want to google it.
Capitalism is a complex system. It's not going to break down in one place. Think of it as an airplane where you can loose an engine or two before it crashes. But sooner or later you lose enough engines. The crash is gonna suck for anyone who couldn't afford a private jet.
I want _all_ employees to stop being abused. The argument that it's OK for Uber to abuse employees because someone else does it is something like what a toddler says when they're caught stealing cookies. What I don't understand is how the hell an argument this ridiculous is resonating with people.
To be 100% clear, I want _both_ groups to be treated as employees. I want to put an end to the practice employers using the word "Contractor" to get out of the social obligations we have place on them. I don't care if you're Uber, a Taxi company, and IT service company or bloody part runners for an auto shop. If your business depends on those people and you wouldn't have a business without them they're employees. If they work they do is an ongoing part of your business they're employees. If you exercise significant control over their day to day work (how and when) they're employees. Enough with the bs already. If we're going to base 90% of our quality of life on employment then employers don't get to bitch when they're given obligations. Period.
I suppose we could also move to a system of single payer health care, basic income, increased and regulated food prices ( e.g. commodities regulation, not setting the prices at the supermarket, btw. Just wanna head off the "But Communism!" nonsense ), etc, etc. But doing that meaningfully isn't going to happen quickly. If we give up our benefits in exchange for the above the 1%ers will just give us neither of them. That's kinda their thing. What's that old Dilbert joke about saying Yes and then not doing it?
some folks need less sleep to get the same amount of rest. Can we _please_ stop acting like they are the norm? The 1%ers have been doing this for ages as an excuse to get the working class to work harder for less. At least as far back as the invention of artificial light and we when we use to call those shmuks "Puritans".
Did you even read my post? I'm a favor of workers rights. I want all workers treated well. It's that simple. Nice try on the traditional "It's just extra pocket money" crap though. Are you a shill for Uber? You've got their talking points down, and your skill at misdirection is excellent. Seems your talents could be used elsewhere though. The folks that stole the Election from Al Gore would love to have you.
Just because the Taxi cab drivers are being abused doesn't mean Uber isn't abusing their drivers. Here's a crazy idea: Why don't we protect _both_ groups of workers? Crazy? I know, right?
say it again. It's not the service, it's how they treat their employees, e.g. by calling them contractors to get out of paying for their Health Care, Unemployment, tax and other benefits (as well as their commercial insurance and proper background checks). Right now Uber is externalizing all those costs. Either onto the driver or eventually society (since we more or less don't just let people die in a gutter in this country, yet...). Their entire business model falls apart as soon as those costs aren't externalized. Look at all the 'Uber for...' companies and how quickly they shut down when their told that they have to treat people who are a core part of their buiness as employees...
Uber is a race to the bottom and a sign capitalism is starting to break down...
Teachers are paid like crap and treated worse. It's like how nerds view Game Programming. Every little girl wants to do it so the employees can be abused. It doesn't help that if you're a college bound kid fresh out of high school with no idea what to do in life it seems like a great idea. You cling to what you already know so you want to stay in school forever.
When I worked in call centers there were tons of elementary & junior high teachers (with degrees) looking for work. Many with years of experience. The math science teachers had a touch less trouble finding work, but the elementary were screwed. We've been cutting education since Reagan so it makes sense. The teachers I know who are doing well are all really house wives working part time for extra cash. And we all know how undergraduates are getting screwed. Basically if you need to make enough money to support a family then you're not going to be a teacher in America.
a vehicle showing where a driver has been. E.g. if you're a politician and somebody hacks your car to show you've been frequently gay bars and brothels.
and/or nonsensical crap to scare rubes into voting Republican. Seriously, we don't even register guns in most places, you think we'll get drones registered? Then again, I could see businesses siding with this. Drone regulation is going to be important for several reasons. For example, put a camera on a drone and you can film a business pouring raw sewage into river water in violation of the law.
Still, I'm guessing this is a non-starter. Might rile up the base a little bit though.
they're legally required to offer the job to an American. Then when no one 'qualified' applies they get to bring in an H1-B. Vote Bernie, he's the only one against it all.
I sorta get your sentiment, but you didn't finish it. What exactly are they doing about it? Are they joining communes? Committing Sepuku? Otherwise there's 3 possibilities: a) they're starting their own businesses, unlikely in this economy. b) They're job hopping because that's the only way to move up in the world or c) they're having nervous breakdowns and/or being forced to quit/retire.
is to stick with Google. I run a few adds to pay for the hosting fees (it's a few hundred a year, yeah, I know I could do better but my host works and I can email their support directly). You'll know when you're site is serving Malware ads, it'll be taken off line by Firefox/Chrome warning your users that your domain is serving up viruses. It happened to the Angry Nintendo Nerd and it happened to Penny Arcade. Both of those guys do their sites full time. Mines a little hobby site for my Firefox plugin to store help docs and beta version of my plugin. I haven't got the time or the inclination to spend getting my site off black lists. So far google's managed to police their Ad network well enough that I haven't had to (knock on wood).