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Id suspect its the disconnect between wealth and reality. At the end of the day the VC only sees what the VC wants to see. in this case a verdant world of the
by nimbius 7y ago
Id suspect its the disconnect between wealth and reality. At the end of the day the VC only sees what the VC wants to see. in this case a verdant world of the futuristic e-scooter where each is powered by the fantastic internet technology of the smartphone and destined to enrich and engage the lives of millions while forging a new path in e-commerce that will surely reward the diligent shareholder.
unforeseen is the army of charging slaves that patrol the city at 4 AM for a few extra dollars at their own expense. E-scooters launched through shop windows and into streets after bars close. The Litigation prompted from both governments endless frustration with this new corporate detritus littering the public sidewalk, and citizens facing ugly medical expenses after the sobering reality that cars in the United States are still far more prevalent, careless, and lethal than any chinese internet scooter.
- aok1425 7y agoHow are they slaves? They have the free will to decide if they want to work or not.
- evv 7y agoYeah? Depends how you define free will. If people want to eat and make rent, they need to afford it somehow, and the employment options are bleak (see: charging scooters). So maybe you meant they have "the free will to decide if they want to work shitty jobs, or not live". We can't be too surprised that the suicide rate is going up in this country.
- yibg 7y agoThat’s a weird definition of a slave and free will. By this definition none of us have free will since most things we do are driven by some motivation. I want to eat and make rent, so I work for the money to do so. Now I’m a slave?
- technobabble 7y agoIf you hate your job, which has negative affects on your health, are you really free just because you get to choose what clothes you wear or what you have for lunch?
- yibg 7y agoYes because I can choose to find another job. No one chained me to my desk.
- rbobby 7y agoI think it may have to do with the number of options a person has to earn money. To those with few options a shitty job can feel a lot like slavery. Taking someone to task over the technically incorrect use of the word slavery seems a bit pedantic at best.
- yibg 7y agoIncome inequality, underemployment and lack of employment opportunities are real problems. But words have meaning, and we as a species have had a pretty ugly history with slavery. Let’s not dilute the meaning of that word when there are others that are more accurate.
- morelisp 7y agoExperience demonstrates that there may be a slavery of wages only a little less galling and crushing in its effects than chattel slavery, and this slavery of wages must go down with the other.