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Did they have to use a human driver to get the last few miles through surface streets?

FTA: > An ex-WeWork employee says Neumann frequently pushed hard to cut costs associated with office furnishing, a major expense. How much could the furnishings have possibly cost?…

I think the takeaway would be that WeWork has found the biggest sucker out there, and that nobody else at this point would invest a dime in them. Until you can somehow show profit …

> Either you're trying to gaslight me, or we're on completely separate levels. See how trippingly accusations flow out of you. Seems like you're misinterpreting everything I'm sayi…

> Of course not. You can, however, compel people to pay taxes. And you can compel people to not just throw their garbage out into the street. You cannot compel people to pay taxes,…

> I am a white, male software developer. I have absolutely nothing to complain about or envy others. Congratulations for your situation in life and happiness. Many people will neve…

> You don't compel labor, you don't print money. vs two sentences later. > And, yeah, at that point you have a bit of coercion Which is it? Can you compel a poor peasant farmer to …

Depends. How much do you need to make? Do you need broadband, the new mobile, or a car and insurance? Will 3 days working as a garbageman make you reasonably happy? If so, please g…

How do you make the pay high enough? Compel labor, print money, or some sort of complicated metric? "Based on family background, education, and IQ tests, we estimate that your best…

Why would you still be working there if you could find something, ANYTHING else as a job? This might end up being a black mark on your resume.

> People want purpose, but they also need their basic needs met. That means our garbage would never get collected or our toilets cleaned, because I don't think anybody's intended p…

Perhaps I was not precise in my wording. With the way WeWork currently works, and its asset allocation and fee structure, I don't think expansion or more market cap than Regus is p…

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/445846-you-wasted-150-000-o... That summarizes the issue. Why pay 200k or even 100k at the beginning of your adult life for something you can read …

https://i.imgur.com/11EVBte.jpg Basically, there's going to be a dip in the worldwide demand for oil, and with the permian basin coming online, we can satisfy much of the world's d…

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/IWGFF?p=IWGFF&.tsrc=fin-srch This looks like the upper limit for WeWork. It doesn't matter how much nicer looking their offices are or if they have …

> What about a variety of direct quotes from the heads of different state Republican parties? https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/17/us/some-republicans-ackno... . That shows no eviden…

> Today the jim crow defenders, the people that say slavery wasn't so bad, some people were even better off. Those are republicans. > They switched. A lot of them switched for reas…

> Ah, so we are still acting like Republicans aren't the legacy bearers of Jim Crow. Democrats enacted Jim Crow laws (0). I see no evidence that Republicans have enacted any laws t…

> When 'some' is enough to control a state legislature, and similar things happen across the country ( https://www.npr.org/2018/10/23/659784277/republican-voter-su... ), it's a log…

>How about proof of citizenship for the right to a free press? Should we require a passport to get into church? Do only citizens get to walk into a post office? Do I need to show s…

> Because the goal of the Republican Party is explicitly to use these laws to suppress the votes of certain demographics, not to actually secure the vote. Your linked source is tal…

I find it amusing that the first thing I saw on that page was a graphic asking me to accept cookies (I'm assuming tracking cookies)

Well, we'll have to look at the cost benefit analysis. It should be done if it makes sense. Would it be more economically feasible to invest the money into fourth generation nuclea…

When they have liabilities that are due?

Rent controls are just a fancy way to say "price caps". If you artificially depress the price of a commodity, you induce a scarcity. Apartments are slightly less liquid than say ap…