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by s73v3r 11y ago
No matter how simple and straight-forward it is, someone is going to fuck it up. And they're going to do so in a way that isn't immediately detectable, but screws the rest of the company because now they have to support something
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by s73v3r 11y ago
You're a fool if you believe that $0 is the actual cost.
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by s73v3r 11y ago
"That ahem sort of racist snark would make a lot more sense if we weren't having this discussion in the context of a system that appears to be providing wildly cheaper service." Cheaper to Americans. Not cheaper to it's
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by s73v3r 11y ago
Except in the current scenario, the company already has disproportionately more power. A company can get by shorthanded for a while. A person not having a job, however, is far, far more devastating, especially if that person has a family to
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by s73v3r 11y ago
"That "no" means they have to be willing to replace a substantial amount of their employees" Not if many of them are afraid of being fired by speaking up. You know, the very people who need a union. "Unions are an i
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by s73v3r 11y ago
So using the firing of someone to intimidate everyone else is fine by you?
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by s73v3r 11y ago
"Ability to set rates does not define the employer-employee relationship." By itself, no, but it is one of the larger pieces of it. "In that sense they don't differ much from lead generators for other businesses (plumber
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by s73v3r 11y ago
"A voluntary union could still collectively bargain." And as someone else said, the company can fire the person who brought the demands to them and tell the rest of them to fuck off and get back to work, or they're next.
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by s73v3r 11y ago
"Collective bargaining can absolutely be a component of a voluntary union, if everyone agrees to it." That "everyone" has to include the leadership of the company. All they have to do is say "no", and the whole
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by s73v3r 11y ago
No. Just no. Any argument you make will always come back to, "The company will threaten and fire people who don't go along with what they want."
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by s73v3r 11y ago
"they should still have that choice as they cannot choose what happens with their union dues" This isn't true. "far too many unions spend inordinate amounts of money on political activities instead of their own membershi
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by s73v3r 11y ago
No, it's that they don't care about people not being able to get care, whereas we at least try to care about it.
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by s73v3r 11y ago
"If you are a working, middle class person, the free market health care works extremely well." And if you're not?
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by s73v3r 11y ago
Nobody has ever said that US healthcare was cheaper. Not one.
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by s73v3r 11y ago
It absolutely is dishonest, and quite possibly fraud. There is absolutely no reason why we should allow this to happen, either.
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by s73v3r 11y ago
Worry all you want, but people have never been rational, even when governments didn't do anything about anything. And nothing will change that. Taking away the government regulations will only result in parasitic companies preying on o
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by s73v3r 11y ago
Because it's naively childish, and absolves the companies from any wrongdoing because "the market".
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by s73v3r 11y ago
The masses shouldn't matter. The companies shouldn't be making this crap in the first place, no matter how much the "market" wants it. Hence, market failure.
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by s73v3r 11y ago
No, it doesn't. Not when it comes to the question of whether someone is an employee or contractor.
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by s73v3r 11y ago
"Where is the evidence of that? I've ridden with plenty of Uber drivers who only drive a few hours a week." If you turn down fares or only drive during certain peak times, you get pushed lower and lower into the queue when th
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by s73v3r 11y ago
Except they very much are. Uber drivers get punished if they refuse too many fares, which means they do not get to choose what they work on, and they do not get to negotiate their own prices.
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by s73v3r 11y ago
Then if they want that, they should be hiring employees. I honestly fail to see why what Uber wants is in any way relevant here.
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by s73v3r 11y ago
Not really. An eBay seller negotiates their own price with the buyer, independent of eBay. Uber/Lyft set a price, and the driver has no say in it.
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by s73v3r 11y ago
Drivers get punished if they don't work certain hours, and they don't get to set their own rates. Sounds like an employment relationship to me.
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by s73v3r 11y ago
Why on earth would a state do this? It makes absolutely no sense.
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by s73v3r 11y ago
Problem being that you're now relying on the willingness of people to learn your new language, which creates a friction point, like someone here was talking about.
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by s73v3r 11y ago
StackOverflow careers should have a filter for "Doesn't make you go through a stupid process to submit resume/cover letter".
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Except, at least for Android, it's not easy to override the language settings just for an app.
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by s73v3r 11y ago
Honestly, at least when it comes to Android development, it's far, far easier to "intuit" (use the phone's default language) than it is to let you choose on a per app basis. The system will automatically select the prope
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by s73v3r 11y ago
Doesn't matter. That's how most people are going to react. And as I said, the major reason is that I don't want to create yet another account with credit card info that I have to worry about, and that I'm not really goin

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