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California bill could force Uber and Lyft to reclassify drivers as employees

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Post by WheelsAtLarge »

PunksATawnyFill wrote: post #90
WheelsAtLarge wrote: post #38

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The Gig economy jobs are a race to the bottom of the pay scale now. You can get the least expensive services by using workers that have no insurance, vacations, sick days or any type of benefits but is that the work environment that we want to encourage? I get it. It's nice to be independent but it's even better to have a job that lets you have at the very least a satisfactory life. Technology can give us jobs that f…

Everyone continues to ignore a glaring problem in the USA: Your health insurance should have nothing to do with your job. When people carp about "benefits," that's really what they're talking about, isn't it? And it's an anachronistic result of incompetent legislation from the WWII era. Fix THAT. Then we can all have "benefits" without any dependence on a particular job.

True, a better future should include health care for all. Now people get locked out of health services because they don't have the right job. That should not be the case ever. Especially, if you get up every day and contribute your labor to improve society.

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Post by m463 »

malandrew wrote: post #116
m463 wrote: post #51

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That's a self-selecting sample, and possibly you've not talked to people who have had problems and/or quit working for uber

Your statement applies to pretty much all jobs.

yes, keep that in mind when interviewing. Asking the interviewer "Do you like working here?" will always return skewed answers.

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Post by TaylorAlexander »

WheelsAtLarge wrote: post #119
TaylorAlexander wrote: post #71

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I’m kind of a techie social activist myself, and you’re very right about technology not being the whole solution. I think people forget that no technology can solve all of our problems. The technology is a tool but we also need to organize with one another in the human sphere and decide what is fair and what is not - what rules we want to play by. And I’m with you that we should question whether we want to live in a…

>Have you ever read Murray Bookchin? I have not but it sounds like it's someone I should. Thx.

You're very welcome. I first came to appreciate Bookchin through his interviews on YouTube, but I am now reading a book of his essays called "The Next Revolution", which I can recommend!

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Post by Skunkleton »

conanbatt wrote: post #103
Skunkleton wrote: post #65

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I have left my house empty every time I have stayed in an AirBnB. Anecdotal? Sure, but I am not the only one.

But the other side hasn't, so in your case its 50% increase in utilization (1/2 parties uses Airbnb). If you had use Airbnb, it would have been 2 more houses per 2 vacation trips.

Most of the time I end up in a spare room, or in a property specially bought to rent out as an AirBnB. Neither of these help with housing shortages.

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Post by jrjdjdhhedh »

michaelmrose wrote: post #97
jrjdjdhhedh wrote: post #94

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They are talking about health insurance it's easy to dismiss things out of hand when you can't seem to read correctly.

Did you just create this account to insult people seems like a bad use of your time.

Seems like learning how to read would be a good use of yours
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