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> high-brow comment You say that like its a bad thing :-) > all worse off than before. Let's stipulate, for sake of argument, that is true. Coffee shop owne
by rhelz 3y ago
> high-brow comment
You say that like its a bad thing :-)
> all worse off than before.
Let's stipulate, for sake of argument, that is true. Coffee shop owners are selling less coffee, delivery drivers are getting paid more per hour, but get less hours in, and erstwhile customers can no longer afford hand-delivered coffee.
Further stipulate that its this bill which us the cause.
The question is, wouldn't all of that happened anyways? The bill might have made it happen now, and not 6 months from now. But can you show everybody was not just living in a fool's paradise?
I know it's unusual these days to make public policy based on calculation and not ideological conviction, but lets do some math. If a driver is making $20 an hour, and it costs him 75 cents a mile to drive his car, how fast, in MPH, can the driver go before just running the car uses up the entire $20? I calculate 20/.75 = 26.7 MPH.
So anybody driving at over 30 MPH is already wearing their car out faster than they can earn money to maintain it. 6 months later, there will be no money set aside for replacing the tires. When the break pads are worn away, well, just hope that the calipers digging into the brake discs can keep you going. And we'll just hope the timing belt--which should have been replaced 50k miles ago, doesn't break, or we'll have to pay for an engine rebuild.
Seriously guys in what universe does it make any sense that you can get coffee hand-delivered to your house for a few bucks extra? If something looks too good to be true, that's because it is too good to be true.