Google Takes on Uber with New Ride-Share Service

Post by ancap » Wed, Aug 31, 2016, 7:19 PM UTC

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>The literature I've seen does not purport that no conceivable change in the minimum wage would have any effect on unemployment levels. That alone demonstrates the answer in the above linked DOL "mythbusters" to be false, or at least deliberately misleading. Let's break down their response: >with the weight of evidence now showing that increases in the minimum wage have had little or no negative effect on the employm…

> but never has any past increase tried to more than double the minimum wage as some strive to do today. That's true, but not by a large margin; the biggest %age one-time increase in the federal minimum wage in the past was 87.5%, a one-step increase to $15 now would be just under 107%. > Regarding the aforementioned studies, even if we take their conclusions to be accurate (which I do not--their methodology is deepl…

Post by xapata » Wed, Aug 31, 2016, 8:11 PM UTC

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As if managers never break the law. Plenty of managers pool the tips and take their cut from the pool. Illegal? Sure. What can anyone do about it? Only quit.

Quit and report the manager to the labor board. There are whole government departments, federally and in each state, dedicated to prosecuting people who do things like this. If people stop letting them get away with it, they'll stop doing it.

Post by ebalit » Wed, Aug 31, 2016, 8:27 PM UTC

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What network effects do you see in Uber?

Customers use Uber because there are enough drivers that service tends to be reliable; Drivers use Uber because there are enough customers to sustain a living. It's the usual marketplace model.

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Aug 31, 2016, 9:30 PM UTC

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Guess what asshole, if you are so unstable in your existence that simply losing your job would mean you cant take care of your kids, THEN YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE KIDS.

Peoples situation changes in ways that can be hard to predict. People die. People get sick. People get divorced. Peoples family members become ill. People run into expensive legal issues. People have unplanned pregnancies and aren't willing to abort. Most of the US isn't in financial position to weather more than temporary hardship without shit falling apart. Other countries deal with this by providing a safety net p…

Post by relaytheurgency » Wed, Aug 31, 2016, 11:01 PM UTC

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> Waiter spit in my food and was really obnoxious/rude to me - 10% tip It is absolutely insane to me that you would tip anything at all in that case. US tipping culture is crazy. In what situation would you give 0% tip?

I have never given a 0% tip in the United States. If the service is that bad, get the manager, have them fired - but as long as they are working, they should be paid. Not tipping is equivalent to asking someone to work without salary. Tipping 10% is pretty damn aggressive, and the few times that I've done it, it's certainly gotten a reaction. What people have to understand, is that a "Tip" in the United States for a…