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I want to have the option to tip for exceptional service or if I really enjoyed taking to the driver, but I do not want to feel obliged to, which is the issue currently with the low wages.
I want the easy option to tip someone for exceptional service, but I also want them to get payed well enough to not feel obliged to.
The were many instance where I would have liked to tip an especially nice Uber driver as an extraordinary thing. But due to the poisonous tipping culture this is not easily available through the app and giving cache is another hurdle and inconvenient for both parties.
> Claiming that I'm too unreasonable to debate with won't win you any points.
It did with me... Seriously, I think you misconstrued this statement as a personal attack, whereas IMHO its simply used to highlight the flaw in your logic: If we have a complex system where A implies B and B implies C and C implies D and so on which possibly goes back to A in subtle ways, but you're just saying "A implies B, B implies no A, hence this won't work, QED" you are assuming a very simplistic view of reality.
You cannot just stop at one step and draw a definite conclusion from that. As pointed out, the wage increase can be rolled over to a price increase for instance, instead of now having to fire everyone. I'm not saying that no loss of labor could occur, but definitely it's only one of many possibilities and the economy is a highly complex system with all kind of direct and indirect effects that are at play here.
All that said, I would actually argue for basic income than a minimum wage as it will completely eliminate the possibility of the labor loss resulting in a wage loss, but in absence of this, minimum wage seems still better than having an increasing amount of working poor.
And the selection of one be all and end all criteria, in case of beer hops, in case of coffee the pureness of the beans I guess, that everyone measures itself on, seems actually very American to me.
Now again, the fact that there is corruption in many countries and money is used wrongly simply means there might be initial or additional work be done, but it definitely does not mean it's inherently not possible, there are plenty of government with low corruption, too.
Finally, what's the alternative? Let the market work and private companies, which I highlighted have the exact same flaws as the government, possibly just on a smaller scale!?
Just putting our heads in the sand and saying this will never work is not a way forward, unless you think of course there's no problem in the first place.
Edit: I guess I might misunderstand the word suppress actually. If it means keep wages constant then I guess expanding the worker pool at the median salary level would probably do that, and the effect of not having any restriction would depress them!?
The old state of affairs is dependent processes are killed by default on log-out, but there's an opt out method.
The new state of affairs: dependent processes are killed by default on log-out, but there's a new opt out method.
The only difference is the old opt-out method is now ignored, in order to reap the misbehaving Gnome processes that use it - until of course those processes adapt to the new API or some other processes do something similar, and we can start the game anew, instead of ever fixing the misbehaving code...
I cannot speak for other European countries, but in Switzerland, much less of the cost of the judicial system is on the individual. Also for minor the there are dedicated judges appointed to quickly resolve disputes without huge processes. And finally, there's insurance you can get that will pay a lawyer for you if you really get into some nasty situation ever, something I haven't found in the U.S. where it would actually make even more sense, given the litigation trigger happiness here.
The purpose of modern states is exactly to provide security in multiple ways, one of them being shared financial security, to remove the need of constant struggle for survival and allow the social side of humanity to flurish.
As an example on a smaller scale: There were enough articles recently for instance about Amazon, as an extreme example of hiper competitive anti-social environment that encourages people to backstab each other and play politics to advance. Pure survival mode. Compare that for instance with companies like Google, that spoil everyone and even give you 20% time for free. So far they haven't collapsed. Now you can argue that companies are not countries, but I don't see how such learning don't apply. That exactly is the human behaviour argument.
Sorry in advance for the ad-hominem, but that supposedly intelligent people even here on Hacker News keep reiterating old tropes about socialism and human nature unreflected, while any research in that regard or simple observations as illustrated above are contradictory to it, is baffling.
The main issue I always saw with the banking secrecy laws that we would store money for people like gaddafy and other rogues. That we should have stored much earlier by law.
Apple will scan your App to check for basic violations, that's all automated. For instance is there a specific flag that you can initialize a socket with to listen in background. This is only allowed if your app is supposed to stream music in background or do some VoIP thing. So if you're app is not that and the software detects you have that flag set anywhere in the code no way you will get it through the certification. There's simply no possibility for such analysis with a URL.
If you start talking about intent like this what your really saying is I share the values of one side and hence find their actions more justifiable. And I obviously even after with you about the west fighting for the better value system, but I would also prefer it would win on its own merit and not because it was forced on countries like Iraq.
Just because cops might have too much power in the states and sometimes get armed with former military equipment doesn't mean you need to generally expect cops to act in bad faith the way you describe. It's not some "childish fantasy" that it's not like that in other countries, it's reality in may that police are generally courteous.
There was a similar discussion on here recently about it being a 'rookie mistake' to approach work situations in good faith and that you should have everything on contractual basis and getting a lawyer. That's such a horrible approach to live and again, from what I hear it seems to some degree be an unfortunate reality in the states, but that does not mean that it should be accepted like this and that it's just an inevitable part of a society.
Fresh however already now has a in my opinion a too high price point on many products and a 300.- yearly fee will just make the situation worse. But what's really a deal-breaker for me is that the selection is barely larger than the one of my local deli around the corner and can definitely not compete with the choice offered going to any major super market.
This was very astonishing to me trying out Fresh for the first time, coming from Switzerland where we have the two major supermarket chains delivering their whole range of products all over the country without the need for a yearly subscription. I can't really understand why an international, multi-billion dollar company like Amazon is not able to provide a similar selection, especially given the restriction of currently only servicing major US cities.