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by ffhhttt 3y ago
No, haven’t you heard? They’re literally slaves/indentured workers.
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
There is no way these part time workers would ever have as much flexibility as they have under the current model though.
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
How is fixed shift work any better in the regard? Does Amazon treat it’s driver better than uber?
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
Considering current labor shortages it wouldn’t be at all unreasonable to conclude that many gig workers do this because they actually prefer the flexibility these app provides to working fix shifts with almost no way to influence tour sche
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
However they would have no incentives to hire people who prefer highly flexible work hours and would force his dad to work fixed shifts which clearly not something many gig workers prefer (and I’m sure many of them would prefer higher grade
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
Freelance writer are essentially gig workers and therefore slaves or underage factory workers according to you bizarrely nonsensical analogy
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
If so if uber was forced to employ all of their workers how else would to expect it to work than that? Certainly your ability to reject jobs or even to select the time you want to work would be severely limited (but let’s ignore that..)
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
That’s exactly how an app which treated him as a part-time worker would work. If you stopp accepting every ride that’s offered to you, you get fired. What else would you expect? I find it so puzzling that some people can’t accept that there
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
> Obama lost the white non-college educated vote by 26 points to Romney, by the way. I’m sorry what?? It was the complete opposite. Obama won the “high-school dropout” vote overwhelmingly. Had narrow majority amongst those who graduated
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
> To expand a bit: Italy is economically conservative. People don't like to invest, banks don't like to lend to businesses, and when businesses fail That’s true. A lot (most?) of Europe seems to be like that, though
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
I wouldn’t define Italy as highly conservative especially the north where most of economic activity is concentrated. If we did that we’d have to say that some Eastern European countries are “ultra” conservative. > Not sure if that explai
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
Yeah, I’m talking about Italy specifically here. You know.. the birthplace of modern banking.
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
What does that have do with Religion? Most banks everywhere behave the same way..
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
What if the banking system is dominated by an oligopoly (the situation throughout most of Europe) and they are all offering the same deal? > money to start businesses What proportion of bank lending is that? Close to insignificant.. Pre
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
> Do the banks get a "windfall subsidy" when they have bad years? Is that sarcasm? Cause yeah, they generally do…
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
Or maybe because proposition didn’t made a whole lot of sense and wouldn’t have improved the situation that drivers that much on average.
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
Clinton won 2016 in large part because of her overwhelming majorities in deeply red states which wasn’t that helpful during the elections. Also because the Democratic primaries were objectively and transparently rigged. IIRC wasn’t Sanders
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
White college graduates are almost evenly split between the parties..
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
In 2016 the split between college educated voters was 49-45 and the majority of white college graduates voted for Trump. Some college educated white voters shifted to the Democrats in 2020 so the gap was a bit wider so I wouldn’t say “incre
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
I thought the limited number of residencies was the real bottleneck?
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
> There's a lot of information online (some accurate, many not) Books by (relatively) renowned/trustworthy experts are also a thing and they all cost less than your monthly subscription.
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
> ROP is very very true to Tolkien themes, That’s the silliest thing I read today. For instance attention to detail was a pretty important theme in Tolkien’s works. He was pretty strict about timeframes, military planning etc. in Amazon’
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
Yes, the system definitely needs some tweaking. I wouldn’t say this means that there is something inherently wrong about it just because of that.
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
It was very hard to make a living as an author or a publisher before IP laws existed. Basically you already had to be independently wealthy, have a sponsor or a day-job if you wanted to write. Which one could argue impedes progress to a non
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
> You'd think trade ceased. With this discovery, it looks like trade continued quite ok. Why? A great reduction in trade doesn’t mean it no longer existed at all.. it’s not 1 or 0.
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
It seems that iron smelting preceded the bronze age in the middle east by several hundred years. Early iron wasn’t very good metal and it made sense sticking to bronze as long as you could afford it and had access to tin and copper)
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
That doesn’t seem to make a whole lot sense. A meteorite hitting it is one of the most unlikely things that could ever happen to any given garage.
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
There is close to zero reason to consider them too without any real evidence.
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
> given evidence that it occurred Is there any evidence?
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
> These early Christians ardently believed in such spirits, which they considered demons, I’m not arguing about the wide scale vandalism. But this bit seems almost entirely like conjecture and generally nonsensical given in Christianity

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