SgtThunderC_nt

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.

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.

Looks more like $10 worth of "reality".

“I don’t get all choked up about yellow ribbons and American flags. I consider them to be symbols and I leave symbols to the symbol minded.” — George Carlin

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.

To my knowledge there really aren't any downsides to a diagnosis, as a matter of fact you may even have new legal protections under the Americans with Disabilities Act, or ADA: https://autismsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/ADA-Fact-Sheet-1-1.pdf

You also have a right to not disclose your diagnosis per HIPAA, so long as you wouldn't need an accomodation.