SgtThunderC_nt

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[–] SgtThunderC_nt 2 points 1 year ago

Time to earn some dosh.

[–] SgtThunderC_nt 1 points 1 year ago

I think you're underestimating how many people want to work for the government for the perceived benefits. I'm saying they have the stuff already set up, in fantasyland it would be a fairly smooth transition.

[–] SgtThunderC_nt 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

If we're talking total fantasyland, I suppose put those employees to work building a government backed alternative or an open platform to allow smaller companies?

Suppose you had a centralized federated system where states or municipalities or even companies could have their own drivers but it's a common app?

Edit to add you could also have both driver and passenger rate each other and allow both to filter by rating, lower ratings would naturally pay more or less to compensate for the service. I bet in cities you'd have luxury versions of the same services all from the same app, but also cheap shitty services too.

[–] SgtThunderC_nt 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Looks like a dope little device but at that price I think I might be more interested in a Steam Deck.

[–] SgtThunderC_nt 1 points 1 year ago

Anti-competition is anti-consumer.

[–] SgtThunderC_nt 2 points 1 year ago

If California has affordable housing that was accessible to everyone it wouldn't have the ORT problem worse than the rest of the country.

[–] SgtThunderC_nt 1 points 1 year ago

This would be a welcome development, I feel like social media is something you use tech to do, but it's very rarely an interesting conversation about the tech itself.

Like how a grocery store has food but you wouldn't call it a restaurant.

[–] SgtThunderC_nt 1 points 1 year ago

Looks more like $10 worth of "reality".

[–] SgtThunderC_nt 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just lost a raid 0 array for what seems like no reason, all I even had to do was reformat and both drives are working again. It's fortunate I only use them for my steam library.

That being said I have an Ubuntu machine that's been running 4 drives in RAID 5 for like 5 years so.... Your mileage may vary?

[–] SgtThunderC_nt 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Btrfs would beg to differ.

[–] SgtThunderC_nt 37 points 1 year ago

“I don’t get all choked up about yellow ribbons and American flags. I consider them to be symbols and I leave symbols to the symbol minded.” — George Carlin

[–] SgtThunderC_nt -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I disagree, he hasn't shown that the amount of unreported tips each year is substantial enough to even affect social security. Especially in a world where more and more transactions are completely cashless. You know what makes a bigger difference? Undocumented migrants that work under the table.

According to https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2020/08/20/key-findings-about-u-s-immigrants/

"7.6 million immigrant workers are unauthorized immigrants,"

And https://immigrantdataca.org/indicators/median-hourly-wage

"in 2019, the median hourly wage [...] $13 for undocumented immigrants"

So $13 x 40 hours x 52 weeks x 7.6M workers = $205B of untaxed income

According to https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/02/how-much-do-waiters-really-earn-in-tips/385515/

"Nationally this adds up to as much as $11 billion in unreported (and untaxed) income."

Let's also talk about wage theft because https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/owed-employers-face-little-accountability-for-wage-theft/

"According to one estimate from the nonprofit think tank Economic Policy Institute, reported and unreported wage theft could amount to as much as $50 billion per year owed to workers."

So tell me again how workers are the ones causing the problems.

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