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For $1500 you could hire someone to come over and put a new newspaper into the frame from time to time.
by fullstop 7y ago
For $1500 you could hire someone to come over and put a new newspaper into the frame from time to time.
- blisterpeanuts 7y agoI was thinking the same thing. Or you could get 10-15 annual newspaper subscriptions, delivered to your door/mailbox.
- arkanciscan 7y agoYes but the refresh rate of newsprint is terrible!
- 1MoreThing 7y ago24 hours isn't optimal, but it gets the job done.
- umvi 7y agoThat's not a living wage
- ColanR 7y agoIf someone considers it the best use of their time, they're better off with extra cash than without.
- umvi 7y agoBy that logic gig economy apps are good, yet they are heavily criticized and in some cases sued.
- Green_man 7y agoGig economy apps being criticized or even sued is not evidence they are bad. *I don't personally like them, but no doubt there are workers that like their jobs at doordash or uber--> not everyone doing those jobs is doing them out of desperation.
- umvi 7y agoWell I guess the question is: if desperate people might take the job, and the job is not sustainable for anyone but teenagers and retirees, should the job be allowed to exist seeing as it would not sustain the desperate person?
- Green_man 7y agosorry for the late reply, my answer might reveal a philosophical difference between our points of view, but I'd ask: would the desperate person be better with a job that covers some of their expenses or no job that coverers none of their expenses? I believe in having a social safety net of some kind (i really like negative income tax), but how useful is it for the government to ban jobs people would otherwise work? the argument could be made that uber could just be forced to pay a living wage, instead of banning their jobs- but the difference is small. uber is already losing money- i would say that forcing them to pay a "living wage" just hastens their collapse and bankruptcy, so we're back to arguing if these jobs are better existing or not existing.
- Klinky 7y agoIt's not a job, it's a gig. Don't go getting DoorDash in trouble. They might have to start treating their employees as employees!
- kfriede 7y agoLet's say it takes someone 30 minutes in total to drive to your house, replace it, and drive back to their own house. If they did it every day, that's 15 hours in a month, or 182.5 hours in a year. If you paid that person $1500 for the year, that's $8.22 per hour, above federal minimum wage.
- organsnyder 7y agoThe minimum wage is far lower than a living wage, even in low-COL areas.
- arkanciscan 7y agoY'all need hobbies
- Phrenzy 7y agoI suggest they put a newspaper on someone's wall.
- Grustaf 7y agoYeah but it doesn’t take 30 minutes, more like 5 minutes if a lot of people were using this service. Or 2 minutes if you simply paid the paper boy to do it!
- mpweiher 7y agoThat's not a full time job.
- fullstop 7y agoIf I had a newspaper delivered to my door I'm not paying a living wage for the delivery person either. How is this any different?
- seanmcdirmid 7y agoThat reminds me of the newspaper walls they have (or had?) in China. Basically, it’s a place outside where the newspaper is pinned up so people can come by and read it while standing, kind of like a bulletin board (probably was like this everywhere before newspapers became cheap).
- Someone 7y agoThat was how government announcements were published for centuries. You ¿still? see that at police offices, with “Wanted” posters.
- seanmcdirmid 7y agoSure, we also have bulletin boards, we just don't pin entire newspapers to them (anymore?).
- ianleighton 7y agoThis is sort of a thing in Portugal. They display all the papers on a board and you can (and people do) read the front pages, and then you can decide if you want to buy one to read the rest.
- Grustaf 7y agoYep, in Russia too, at least 20 years ago.
- toyg 7y agoThis used to be very common in Italy, particularly near community centres, libraries, and political-party locations (in the latter case, of course, it was restricted to specific newspapers). It took a lot of maintenance (vandalism, weather, etc) and slowly disappeared with the multiplication of media channels. Still, it was a very low-tech/high-democracy way to disseminate information. You can still read newspapers for free in libraries and cafes, but obviously it’s not the same (you cannot discuss with others at a library, and cafes will typically stick to sports and local news to avoid alienating anyone).
- saltcured 7y agoHow about an inkjet plotter and a big spool of paper... later revisions might dabble with erasable ink and surface combinations. If it is monochromatic, it might even be able to collect and recycle the ink.