The gig economy and how big tech is pitting us all against each other.

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I watched about half of the above video. I still say if it doesn't work for your restaurant, just don't use it. Restaurants are an economy of scale and if you're selling more food or stuff you'd otherwise throw out, or reaching customers you'd otherwise never reach, there can be some benefit even with them taking a 15-30% cut. I will always order on the restaurant's app and go to pick it up myself if feasible but the video is right in that if I'm too drunk, stoned, tired or whatever it is a nice option to have.

ETA: I will say that them delivering the restaurant food without their knowledge is complete bullshit but I'm curious if that really goes on any more.
 
superrific said:
1. If Trump passes "no taxes on tips" my tips will immediately drop by 30%.
2. Fuck Uber and all of them.
3. Tipping is a stupid practice.
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Agree tipping is stupid. Pay people and adjust pricing to cover it.

I dont use any of these services, other than Uber. For me the benefit doesn't match the cost, again except for uber. And the company makes too much while the worker doesn't make enough.

I do tip very well because I have worked for tips and I know what sucks most people are when it comes to tipping.
 
I avoid the food delivery apps as much as possible. Def use Uber/Lyft and it is a race to the bottom. Always seems to take longer than the app initially advertises for the driver to arrive. I'll always, always tip, but won't hesitate to give lower star ratings if warranted.
 
I've used GrubHub or similar a few times when solo parenting on a week night and each of the few times things were delayed, cold or items missing. And cust service to complain or rectify are pretty non-existent.
 

A call to arms (literally) for tech bros​

In “The Technological Republic,” Alexander C. Karp and Nicholas W. Zamiska argue that Silicon Valley should work more closely with the Pentagon


“The message of “The Technological Republic” is as clear and bracing as reveille: Tech bros, who have spent the boom years of the Silicon Valley revolution perfecting the home delivery of chicken fingers, better grow up. They need to refocus their engineering genius on helping America to defend Western values by developing weapons to kill our enemies before our enemies develop weapons to kill us. That means getting over any aversion they have to working with the Pentagon. The atomic age is over; we’re in the software century. The emergence of artificial intelligence, and its fathomless array of potential military uses, only adds urgency to the necessity of what ought to be a national project.

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Google stopped work on the contract because, as one executive put it, “the backlash has been terrible.” “The Technological Republic” strenuously objects. About the company’s retreat, the authors write: “They charge themselves with constructing vast technical empires but decline to offer support to the state whose protections — not to mention educational institutions and capital markets — have provided the necessary conditions for their ascent. They would do well to understand that debt, even if it remains unpaid.”
There’s a whiff in this assessment of Col. Nathan Jessep, Jack Nicholson’s character in “A Few Good Men.”

Indeed, “The Technological Republic” can get a bit old-man-yells-at-cloud when, regrettably, it blames only “the left” for the lack of a national consensus, something the authors say is essential to winning the AI weapons race. …”
 
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