You buy a car. You sign up with a "ride company". You provide their customers with a service. You are working for them. But you are not. The car costs a bundle to maintain. Oops.
The "independent contractor" or "gig worker" scam is just another version of the man keeping the rest of us under his thumb.
Some of these "disruptive" techno…
You buy a car. You sign up with a "ride company". You provide their customers with a service. You are working for them. But you are not. The car costs a bundle to maintain. Oops.
The "independent contractor" or "gig worker" scam is just another version of the man keeping the rest of us under his thumb.
Some of these "disruptive" technologies are really just masquerading as cons that exploit people. Uber is great unless you are a driver.
In my little town, a shark real estate woman has bought up most of the available lovely old homes, converted them into AirBnBs, thus removing them as residences from a community which has already outgrown its housing AND by doing so, she is not paying taxes that support our local community. She lives in Austin, but is literally ruining all the neighboring small towns with her greed and avarice.
You buy a car. You sign up with a "ride company". You provide their customers with a service. You are working for them. But you are not. The car costs a bundle to maintain. Oops.
The "independent contractor" or "gig worker" scam is just another version of the man keeping the rest of us under his thumb.
Some of these "disruptive" technologies are really just masquerading as cons that exploit people. Uber is great unless you are a driver.
And someday ask me what I think about AirBnB.
"Good government is the solution!"
Fuck you Ronnie.
Personally, I am in favor of fixing Silly-Con Valley with a 50-megaton H-bomb.
Would a few drone strikes make you happy, TC? My son teaches h.s. English and ethics (yes, it's still taught in some public schools) in Los Gatos.
The problem with my proposal is it wouldn't be limited to the right people. :-)
In my little town, a shark real estate woman has bought up most of the available lovely old homes, converted them into AirBnBs, thus removing them as residences from a community which has already outgrown its housing AND by doing so, she is not paying taxes that support our local community. She lives in Austin, but is literally ruining all the neighboring small towns with her greed and avarice.
And undoubtedly a Republican, like all real estate scum.
Well, I happen to know a couple who are staunch Dems! Two. LOL!