Loaning to students got deregulated so colleges jacked up their prices. If you do not have a high school degree (I probably should have used the word diploma) college is a non starter.Ĭollege costs and debt are a problem becauseġ. "College costs tens of thousands of dollars a year." remember my part about Baby(s) + no degree = poverty. I do not go to the doctor because my insurance is so worthless that I have to pay 100% of my bills out of pocket.
I pay as much for insurance as I do to the fed in taxes. I knew when I was going to be critical of the sacred cow "BABIES!!!" that this would happen. Your emotional response is pretty spectacular. Isn't that precisely the kind of government interference your people ostensibly abhor? extract as much money as possible from everybody, and asshole right-wingers bitching about their fellow man instead of being decent fucking human beings.Īre you seriously proposing a means-tested ban on having children? The problem is asshole businesses keeping them that way, asshole politicians making sure their asshole for-profit friends in for-profit healthcare, education, loans, etc. The problem isn't poor people being poor. Why? Because assholes on the right would rather rag on poor people being unemployable and "mooching off the public dime" and other right-wing shibboleths than actually do something decent to fix the pathetic social programs we have in the US. College costs tens of thousands of dollars a year. I pay more in health insurance premiums than many people make in a year before taxes.Ī child delivery costs several thousand dollars with good insurance. My health insurance premiums (not the copays or anything, just the premiums) cost me $1,900 a month.
It is crazy to me that people who cannot afford to feed a child are allowed to have one. They could not afford a child because they had 0 marketable skills. "Because they had babies they could not afford." is the root cause. "they still need food, housing, and medical care" is not the root cause. I've always referred to high schoolers delivering pizza as a parent subsidized job (car / insurance / gas).
#Gigeconomy fuck yeah drivers
Not sure about JJ's, but we also need to address the absurdity of pizza and other existing delivery drivers working on tipped wages. If these court rulings force the price of delivery up to to $20 I will simply stop getting delivery. I am not going to pay $20 to get a sandwich delivered. Typically, deductions are (as their name implies) deducted from total pay, whereas reimbursements are added to it.Īnd you think forcing a bunch of reimbursements is not going to lower the pay component? It is still going to add up to $7 when you are done, because that is all the market will bear. Instead of getting a simple payment for delivering a sandwich, do we want itemized pay stubs instead?ĭoes anyone really think the total at the bottom is going to change? The same laws should apply with the app based gig economy. I am curious - were pizza drivers contractors or employees? How did that work before these apps came in. I have never seen this many delivery drivers/riders before the "gig" economy. There are a ton more of entry level jobs for people that needed them. These apps opened up the delivery option for many restaurants that did not have them before. Tons of restaurants will lose customers that they have now thanks to Ubereats, Grubhub, Foodora etc. Sure it might hurt middle man businesses but tons of pizza places, Italian restaurants and Chinese food will somehow overcome by having employees deliver their food. Yeah no restaurants delivered before specific food delivery services. This would be a great place to work, but the lack of customers is really going to hurt. And guess what, no one will pay $40 to get a sandwich delivered. Add on company phone, corporate overhead, a 3% profit margin.ĭo some division, it is going to cost $40 to get a sandwich delivered.
Let's pay GrubHub delivery people $40,000/yr with retirement, medical, paid vacations, etc. If "gig workers" are employees, it will suddenly become much harder to be one, and most of the people who think they are employees will suddenly find they are (and have always been) unemployed. There will never be a future where you can simply declare yourself the employee of a company by signing up though. It seems like forcing the hand of the parent companies into treating them like actual employees (paying for benefits, expenditures, etc) is more likely to negatively affect the mercenary economy they create.Īlternatively, it might be a way to prevent huge corporations from suddenly crying out "it's a gig!" and then walking away from the responsibilities they would normally have with regard to their employees. I was under the impression that one of the biggest perks of these "gig" economy jobs was that they generated extra revenue for people who had the time, resources and inclination, without the hassle of corporate overhead.
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