Lyft isn't a bad business. Jia is a slacker who wants something for nothing. Lyft provides a service and pays a certain rate. People choose to use it or work there. So take lyft out of the equation. What would Mary have done for money? Some magical job that paid more that appeared because Lyft wasn't there?
Yes, and healthcare isn't free to create. What right do you have to the doctor's time? Se paid for her education, she took the time to get it. She put in all the hours of residency etc... to make it happen. Working back to back to back to back 18 hour shifts. And the medical device company who spent billions building that latest tech? Are you also entitled to their time and money? Drug company spends billions on a drug over a decade or more and suddenly you get to have it for free? Guess how long that doctor, medical device company, and drug company exist even if they are free to use? They would be gone faster than you can say "but think of the children." You are free to go start your own drug company and give away the fruits of your labor all you want. But you won't last. Go to 12 years of college and give away your services if you want, but you won't be able to buy your family dinner on gratitude. You know what happened a lot in early United States? Pioneers died of starvation and dehydration if they didn't get food and water on their own. Now we expect those things to be given to us? All it will take is one major event keeping the nanny state from shoving its teat in your poor incapable mouth and all the Jia's of the country will be dead in a week.
Without Lyft, who is Mary going to get this money from that she apparently needs to much that she puts her health in danger to get it? Reduce the number of options you have and you put supply even further below demand and that puts the suppliers (employers) in a position to offer lower wages. Jia hates the idea of praising people for doing what it takes to make ends meet and be successful. Jia is a moron. Jia wants a participation trophy for only giving 25% effort.
Yes it is still a choice. Not every choice has a pretty, happily ever after option. If Lyft gigs didn't exist, she wouldn't even HAVE that option. In Jia Tolentino's opinion, that's better for Mary...to not have the choice of working a Lyft. Because it's better not to have the option to work for money you think is worth it because someone else thinks it's too little money for you to make?
And further how will your government reliance treat you when suddenly that government can't support you any more? Sequestration? Country in bankruptcy? What about when the world all goes to shit and it's anarchy? Where is your communist/facist god now? I tell you where, he's standing over your corpse taking your supplies.
Except that isn't at all what this disgusting article is about. It's about how gig economy jobs supposedly trick you into trading your welfare for pittance. "Normalizing" the idea that earning $11 is more important than seeking urgent medical care? What the actual fuck? Writer takes what Mary said was the reason and says no wait but what if it's because her logical decision making has been compromised by evil Lyft and other gig company marketing. Because Mary is a stupid moron who can barely tie her own shoes? No, Mary made a choice. Perhaps out of her circumstances she felt it was worth the risk. Are we really so worried that people can't think for themselves that we're ready to excoriate an entire business model? If people's minds are that weak, then this is the last area we need to be worried about. Think about all those horrible TV shows and movies that just come right out and say so many horrible things are okay! Now we're past "but think of the children!" we're now at "but think of the morons"!
You can work too hard at any job. I could have 3 jobs working 40 hours a week each, none of them "gig" jobs and be carted off the the loony bin after a few months. I take major exception with bullshitters like the article writer saying the gig economy forces or tricks people into working too hard for their own good. Hence my "go fuck yourself" laden original post. And just to make the article even more of a idiot-fest, the writer bashes the idea of self-reliance. Because relying on the government/corporation to take care of you is exactly what you want, right? Fuck that.
Lyft doesn't exist and Mary, subject of article, wouldn't have even had that option for income. How dare Lyft exist and provide Mary with a way to make cash through her entire pregnancy.
This article doesn't introduce grey. It is firmly on the idea that poor worker bees have no self control and will die working themselves to the bone solely because gig companies promote working when you can.
I take personal responsibility. That is all. I don't want government or anyone else feeling like they have to baby me for me to get through that scary thing called life. Lyft and other "gig" based work companies are creating work for people who either don't have 100% availability or just want to earn a few bucks here and there. If you turn that around and take every "gig" and fill in 24 hours a day all week, or drive passengers around when you're 9 months pregnant that wasn't Lyft hurting you. That was you hurting you. So what? Make it so Lyft drivers can't work as much as they want to? Or that they have to submit to medical evaluations once a week and have a doctor's note saying they can drive? What is the warning label going to say "Warning: While most people realize you can't work 24/7 without dying, the surgeon general wants you to know that you can die from working."
I have told more than one friend that I think they are working themselves too much. Some take that advice and slow down, some just keep on trucking. But it's their choice. It isn't up to their employer(s) or the government to say "Hey, slow down". How's a gig company gonna know if you worked 80 hours at five other jobs so you driving for them for 20 hours this week was actually detrimental to your health? What exactly is wrong with gig companies existing to let you the worker choose just how much you're comfortable doing? And how are you so weak minded that a commercial/slogan that implies you should work hard would suspend all of your common sense and just keep working harder?
What does this have to do with voluntarily working more hours? Mary, the first subject of the article, made a choice and it had consequences. She was not forced to work, she chose to work. She decided to take the risk, and she put herself and her riders in a precarious situations. This was not Lyft's fault. This was 100% Mary's fault. Did she do it because she truly needed the money because she was about to give birth and not be able to work? Maybe, but that still isn't Lyft's fault that she made that choice. Working McDonald's isn't for everybody. Working Lyft isn't for everybody. That doesn't mean you won't find yourself needing to do something you don't really want to do as a job when you need money for food, shelter and bills. But that still isn't Lyft's fault. The entire problem I have with this article is somehow because Lyft and others follow the "gig" business model that FORCES people to make bad choices and risk themselves and others. Argue all you want that Lyft's pay scale or lack of benefits isn't reasonable, but Mary knew that when she signed up. People need to take responsibility for themselves and not expect the world to be covered in soft blankets and warning labels. That doesn't mean companies, society, or friends and family shouldn't help, but articles like this try to pin blame in a way that absolves people of personal responsibility for their choices.
There are absolutely companies who take advantage of their workers. They know they can corral them into working long hours for nothing. The "gig" economy is specifically counter to that because it exists to be a "use it when you want to" job. Got extra time? Go be an uber or lyft driver if you want to make a few bucks. This article this goes further and calls America's desire for self-reliance an obsession in a bad way. When it fucking comes down to it, there is literally only one person you CAN rely on. And that's YOU. The more you give that self-reliance up, the less free you are and eventually there won't be anything left. And if you think that's utopian, then I would never want to see your idea of Utopia even from a distance.
Go fuck yourself. Seriously. Fuck yourself. People can work all manner of jobs too much to the point of being burnt out or worse. It's up to you as a free fucking human being to figure out how much you can handle and how much you want to work. I do not want your handholding bullshit anywhere near me. I make mistakes, I fucking deal with the consequences. I make informed decisions. I don't let a commercial convince me to work 24 hours a day 7 days a week. And if you do, well you've already fucked yourself by being stupid as fuck and society doesn't need that stupidity in it. Gah I hate this Jia fucker so much and I don't even know who it is.
because the sheets of "glass" that they show in many scifi shows and movies seem like they would be cool as a computer/phone. Practical? Hell i don't know. But if they make advances in technology that allow it to happen then that's fine by me. There are bound to be applications for those advances that go beyond aesthetics. I prefer my phone not to so easily become shattered, thus I put it in a case. This nullifies the aesthetic benefit of having no bezel for me.
And the reported numbers of digital subscriptions is actually a huge positive for NYT. They may have actually turned the corner on this internet thing.
Make it optional and go for it. I don't mind. And separate completely making a scene visible on a mobile screen versus making it "more immersive" on a mobile device. You pop some x-ray type shit up in my face and I will cancel my account.
Way too early to know that. Right now it would probably cost you a year's salary to have a meal made of IVM meat. The only way it becomes mainstream is if A. it's comparable to regular meat in price or B. regular meat supply becomes severely compromised.
I am not willing to eat a mcnugget. for some reason I love hamburger (ground beef) but the idea of even ground chicken let alone chicken paste just turns my stomach. If this IVM meat is like actual unprocessed meat I'll eat that stuff morning noon and night. If it has the consistency of a mcnugget, not a chance.
Which would come over time from the community adding/refining explanations and voting them up and down till the best ones are at the top. Very limited so far. And the quality of many of the analogies is pretty weak. WPA for example. You don't really walk away knowing what WPA is, but you definitely know that a bunch of people have a bone to pick with it as if someone wanting to know what it means automatically means that person is looking for a SINGLE way to secure themselves on the internet. But that would improve over time.
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Lyft isn't a bad business. Jia is a slacker who wants something for nothing. Lyft provides a service and pays a certain rate. People choose to use it or work there. So take lyft out of the equation. What would Mary have done for money? Some magical job that paid more that appeared because Lyft wasn't there?
Yes, and healthcare isn't free to create. What right do you have to the doctor's time? Se paid for her education, she took the time to get it. She put in all the hours of residency etc... to make it happen. Working back to back to back to back 18 hour shifts. And the medical device company who spent billions building that latest tech? Are you also entitled to their time and money? Drug company spends billions on a drug over a decade or more and suddenly you get to have it for free? Guess how long that doctor, medical device company, and drug company exist even if they are free to use? They would be gone faster than you can say "but think of the children." You are free to go start your own drug company and give away the fruits of your labor all you want. But you won't last. Go to 12 years of college and give away your services if you want, but you won't be able to buy your family dinner on gratitude. You know what happened a lot in early United States? Pioneers died of starvation and dehydration if they didn't get food and water on their own. Now we expect those things to be given to us? All it will take is one major event keeping the nanny state from shoving its teat in your poor incapable mouth and all the Jia's of the country will be dead in a week.
Without Lyft, who is Mary going to get this money from that she apparently needs to much that she puts her health in danger to get it? Reduce the number of options you have and you put supply even further below demand and that puts the suppliers (employers) in a position to offer lower wages. Jia hates the idea of praising people for doing what it takes to make ends meet and be successful. Jia is a moron. Jia wants a participation trophy for only giving 25% effort.
Yes it is still a choice. Not every choice has a pretty, happily ever after option. If Lyft gigs didn't exist, she wouldn't even HAVE that option. In Jia Tolentino's opinion, that's better for Mary...to not have the choice of working a Lyft. Because it's better not to have the option to work for money you think is worth it because someone else thinks it's too little money for you to make?
And further how will your government reliance treat you when suddenly that government can't support you any more? Sequestration? Country in bankruptcy? What about when the world all goes to shit and it's anarchy? Where is your communist/facist god now? I tell you where, he's standing over your corpse taking your supplies.
Except that isn't at all what this disgusting article is about. It's about how gig economy jobs supposedly trick you into trading your welfare for pittance. "Normalizing" the idea that earning $11 is more important than seeking urgent medical care? What the actual fuck? Writer takes what Mary said was the reason and says no wait but what if it's because her logical decision making has been compromised by evil Lyft and other gig company marketing. Because Mary is a stupid moron who can barely tie her own shoes? No, Mary made a choice. Perhaps out of her circumstances she felt it was worth the risk. Are we really so worried that people can't think for themselves that we're ready to excoriate an entire business model? If people's minds are that weak, then this is the last area we need to be worried about. Think about all those horrible TV shows and movies that just come right out and say so many horrible things are okay! Now we're past "but think of the children!" we're now at "but think of the morons"!
You can work too hard at any job. I could have 3 jobs working 40 hours a week each, none of them "gig" jobs and be carted off the the loony bin after a few months. I take major exception with bullshitters like the article writer saying the gig economy forces or tricks people into working too hard for their own good. Hence my "go fuck yourself" laden original post. And just to make the article even more of a idiot-fest, the writer bashes the idea of self-reliance. Because relying on the government/corporation to take care of you is exactly what you want, right? Fuck that.
Lyft doesn't exist and Mary, subject of article, wouldn't have even had that option for income. How dare Lyft exist and provide Mary with a way to make cash through her entire pregnancy.
This article doesn't introduce grey. It is firmly on the idea that poor worker bees have no self control and will die working themselves to the bone solely because gig companies promote working when you can.
I take personal responsibility. That is all. I don't want government or anyone else feeling like they have to baby me for me to get through that scary thing called life. Lyft and other "gig" based work companies are creating work for people who either don't have 100% availability or just want to earn a few bucks here and there. If you turn that around and take every "gig" and fill in 24 hours a day all week, or drive passengers around when you're 9 months pregnant that wasn't Lyft hurting you. That was you hurting you. So what? Make it so Lyft drivers can't work as much as they want to? Or that they have to submit to medical evaluations once a week and have a doctor's note saying they can drive? What is the warning label going to say "Warning: While most people realize you can't work 24/7 without dying, the surgeon general wants you to know that you can die from working."
I have told more than one friend that I think they are working themselves too much. Some take that advice and slow down, some just keep on trucking. But it's their choice. It isn't up to their employer(s) or the government to say "Hey, slow down". How's a gig company gonna know if you worked 80 hours at five other jobs so you driving for them for 20 hours this week was actually detrimental to your health? What exactly is wrong with gig companies existing to let you the worker choose just how much you're comfortable doing? And how are you so weak minded that a commercial/slogan that implies you should work hard would suspend all of your common sense and just keep working harder?
What does this have to do with voluntarily working more hours? Mary, the first subject of the article, made a choice and it had consequences. She was not forced to work, she chose to work. She decided to take the risk, and she put herself and her riders in a precarious situations. This was not Lyft's fault. This was 100% Mary's fault. Did she do it because she truly needed the money because she was about to give birth and not be able to work? Maybe, but that still isn't Lyft's fault that she made that choice. Working McDonald's isn't for everybody. Working Lyft isn't for everybody. That doesn't mean you won't find yourself needing to do something you don't really want to do as a job when you need money for food, shelter and bills. But that still isn't Lyft's fault. The entire problem I have with this article is somehow because Lyft and others follow the "gig" business model that FORCES people to make bad choices and risk themselves and others. Argue all you want that Lyft's pay scale or lack of benefits isn't reasonable, but Mary knew that when she signed up. People need to take responsibility for themselves and not expect the world to be covered in soft blankets and warning labels. That doesn't mean companies, society, or friends and family shouldn't help, but articles like this try to pin blame in a way that absolves people of personal responsibility for their choices.
There are absolutely companies who take advantage of their workers. They know they can corral them into working long hours for nothing. The "gig" economy is specifically counter to that because it exists to be a "use it when you want to" job. Got extra time? Go be an uber or lyft driver if you want to make a few bucks. This article this goes further and calls America's desire for self-reliance an obsession in a bad way. When it fucking comes down to it, there is literally only one person you CAN rely on. And that's YOU. The more you give that self-reliance up, the less free you are and eventually there won't be anything left. And if you think that's utopian, then I would never want to see your idea of Utopia even from a distance.
Jokes on you, I'm posting from the psych ward of a federal prison.
Go fuck yourself. Seriously. Fuck yourself. People can work all manner of jobs too much to the point of being burnt out or worse. It's up to you as a free fucking human being to figure out how much you can handle and how much you want to work. I do not want your handholding bullshit anywhere near me. I make mistakes, I fucking deal with the consequences. I make informed decisions. I don't let a commercial convince me to work 24 hours a day 7 days a week. And if you do, well you've already fucked yourself by being stupid as fuck and society doesn't need that stupidity in it. Gah I hate this Jia fucker so much and I don't even know who it is.
because the sheets of "glass" that they show in many scifi shows and movies seem like they would be cool as a computer/phone. Practical? Hell i don't know. But if they make advances in technology that allow it to happen then that's fine by me. There are bound to be applications for those advances that go beyond aesthetics. I prefer my phone not to so easily become shattered, thus I put it in a case. This nullifies the aesthetic benefit of having no bezel for me.
Otherwise Parker Lewis will stick with iWatch.
And the reported numbers of digital subscriptions is actually a huge positive for NYT. They may have actually turned the corner on this internet thing.
Make it optional and go for it. I don't mind. And separate completely making a scene visible on a mobile screen versus making it "more immersive" on a mobile device. You pop some x-ray type shit up in my face and I will cancel my account.
infinite steps means it would never actually reach 0 because there are always more steps. Genius....
I would go without high def, but since I need to be able to stream on two devices at once I pay for the high def plan.
You wouldn't be able to sue them in US Court.
Way too early to know that. Right now it would probably cost you a year's salary to have a meal made of IVM meat. The only way it becomes mainstream is if A. it's comparable to regular meat in price or B. regular meat supply becomes severely compromised.
What's with the slashes? I thought maybe that was your post style but I see no other examples in your recent posts. I am just curious.
I am not willing to eat a mcnugget. for some reason I love hamburger (ground beef) but the idea of even ground chicken let alone chicken paste just turns my stomach. If this IVM meat is like actual unprocessed meat I'll eat that stuff morning noon and night. If it has the consistency of a mcnugget, not a chance.
The interface is complete shit right now. But the capability concept is good.
Which would come over time from the community adding/refining explanations and voting them up and down till the best ones are at the top. Very limited so far. And the quality of many of the analogies is pretty weak. WPA for example. You don't really walk away knowing what WPA is, but you definitely know that a bunch of people have a bone to pick with it as if someone wanting to know what it means automatically means that person is looking for a SINGLE way to secure themselves on the internet. But that would improve over time.