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.

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.

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

Anti-competition is anti-consumer.

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.

Btrfs would beg to differ.

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.

See: https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]/t/211224/-/comment/883504

Holy bootlicker batman, that’s why we’re saying tips need to go, employers need to just pay them a decent hourly wage.

And again, if the corporations lobbied for the tax burden to be moved from themselves to the poor, who stole from who first?

In 1960 businesses paid 52% per corporate income tax over $25,000. In 2020 they paid 22% for all income. https://taxfoundation.org/historical-corporate-tax-rates-brackets/

Corporate income taxes made up 23.2% of the U.S. governments income in 1960 while individual income taxes made up 44.0%. But in 2018 corporate income taxes only made up 11.3% of the U.S. government’s income where Individuals paid 49.8%.

But please, tell me again how endless programs borrowing against social security and rich people refusing to pay their share are okay but a waitress not reporting the $50 she made in cash tips is the real problem.

Lol, this guy is worried about workers not paying their taxes.

Just got back into replaying Cyberpunk 2077 and I’m very glad a significant amount of the launch issues have been addressed. It’s taken a while but it’s finally playable. Still a bit upset they didn’t deliver on the futuristic GTA experience I was expecting, but I’m at least having a good time.

The type of guy who fits in 38/34s does not take a “lite™” shit.

And people only care enough to do something when their dopamine dispensers stop working.

I agree, thats still not why they’re so popular though. You wanna know where they make money? The cashier doesn’t actually want to bug you about that extended warranty or the current charity or the cost of a bag in some states. The machine has no feelings. It just does what it’s supposed to do that day.

I disagree that people would somehow be more compelled to vote for issues they care about. Most people care about who the president is but that still doesn’t get everyone to the polls. Forcing states to have more reasonable access to mail in ballots would be a step in the right direction but the problem in my opinion is really a out getting people to see it more as a duty than a chore. Say we used a tax credit to incentivize voting?

As for the idea of just letting political parties do what they want, they kind of already do, see DNC primaries 2016. That system already exists and is being actively exploited by the ruling class. I don’t think that’s a fix.

Again, we come back to term limits, people who are elected to office need to be forced out of politics after a set amount of time to prevent career politicians. And more specifically we need to make it so they cannot accept a job offer or payment for services from anyone who could have benefited from their decisions while in office. Maybe we have a pension for ex-representatives to live on for 8 years after leaving office, and make it illegal for them to have any other income? It should be a service to our country, not our country serving them.

It also means you have 4 lanes open with 1 body.

P.S. industry standard seems to be 4 SCO’s per 1 attendant but I know Walmart sometimes does up to 12 per 2 attendants.

Lol you think they cost $5000. My current store had them upgraded at the beginning of the year, with existing infrastructure already in place it took a team of 8 contractors 4x8 hour days. Assuming standard “professional” pricing of $100/hr for labor that’s 8x4x8x100=$25,600 in labor.

I have no idea how much the hardware costs but most stores aren’t using the Chinese knockoffs you see on Alibaba for $5,000. The real ones most people use that can take cash are substantially more complicated and require software support to tie into the store’s inventory system. Our regional IT guy was at my store 10 hours a day for a week after just to get things working.

I don’t even like dogs… But that’s a GOOD boy.

Everytime someone tries it always gets co-opted into an authoritarian regime?