Why the hell shouldn’t working provide a decent wage?
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There was no memo. The extension of the capitalist’s legal ownership of the venue of production (now virtual) to include my own physical capital would have been rejected out of hand, if it had been stated plainly. Some dude gets to profit from me for driving customers around in my own car, because he has a website? Fuck off.
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“Decent” is relative after all. Washing dishes paid me better than running a record label but neither would get me to a “middle class wage”.
Driving a livened livery cab can earn well if you are willing to put in over 12hr days and you live where taxis are in constant demand but the entry barrier is very high as medalians are so n limited supply.
The “good part” of these sharing jobs is supposed to be “do it when you can”, but the low barrier to entry is a pretty good signal that the wage isn’t going to be amazing.
Sorry but unclear if you are telling me to fuck off or a company that might voucher for non medalian taxis
I was saying ‘fuck off’ as an expression of derision aimed at the business model.
No, it’s a bad thing when there’s asymmetry in the ability to opt out.
Really? Corporations are working within the bounds of the law. Those bounds are set by our lawmakers. Blaming the corporations for working within the law is like blaming motorcyclists in California for lane splitting. Many people hate lane splitters but are the motorcyclists to blame for it being legal or the politician who made is so.
Not quite, as “within the bounds of the law” is determined by those corporations and their influence on politicians. It is perfectly legitimate to blame entities when they are following the rules, if they themselves are the ones who set those rules.
You argument would be functionally equivalent to nobles engaging in prima noctis when it was the law of the land.
“Why are you blaming the local nobles for having sex with your wife on your wedding night? They’re just following the rules they created, man.”
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Not really, they only make some fountain syrup there, mostly distributed somewhat locally.
It depends on the size of the bottling operation. AFAIK, the largest bottling operations(known as anchor bottlers) - Coca-Cola Refreshments(USA), Coca-Cola Enterprises(Western Europe), Coca-Cola Hellenic(East Europe), Coca-Cola Amatil(Australasia and part of South east asia) for example - make their own syrup on-site, because it would be too expensive to ship the volume of syrup they require. Other, smaller(and a surprising amount of the time, independent) bottling operations must buy their syrup from Coke, but as far as I know, it’s not publicly known where it’s manufactured.
The exception is one ingredient, decocainized flavor essence of coca leaves. There’s very few locations where that process is allowed to be performed, and we only know of one of them(A plant in New Jersy, with a DEA permit to import Coca leaves). They ship that ingredient to their own plants worldwide, because it’s so difficult to source it locally.
The Urban legend comes in with the “Only two people know the formula” thing. In reality, while they do keep up the “Only two executives know the whole formula” myth, while two executives do know the whole formula, they also distribute it around to company chemists and syrup-makers, any number of which could probably tell you the recipe from memory. It’s a marketing gimmick - in reality, even if you did have the recipe, you can’t get some of the ingredients, and even if you could, you can’t sell it as Coke. They care far more about the brand, than if your soda tastes like theirs.
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That would be true if corporations made our laws but it was the lawmakers who made them. Sure, they may have accepted corporate money to create these laws through the system of legal bribes these sames politicians created but it was not the corporations who legislated and voted to get these laws passed. It was the politicians.
It’s easy to blame corporations for this behaviour. After all, they are faceless giants who trod upon us all. But it’s much harder for people to admit that they have elected corrupt politicians in to office and have chosen to keep them there. Doubly so because that means the real reason this has happened is because we the people have made it that way.
That’s kind of a ridiculous and naive way of looking at it. Because it’s all the same set of people. Literally. This is why politicians bounce between corporate gigs and “public service” (HAH!!!)
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You do realize that the corporations often literally do write the laws, and send the writing to the congresspeople who then put it forward, right? This actually happens, and is common. Via lobbyist groups, etc.
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If you can point at Californian biker gangs ploughing millions of dollars into buying politicians and then funding their continued elections, all in the name of making sure that lane-splitting remains legal, then I’ll take it seriously as a comparison.
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♬Row, row, row their boat, out to Panama ♫
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I’m quite aware of the idea of ‘we wrote a bill we would like you to introduce, here is some money’. But I’m also aware of which of these two groups we actually have the power to change or effect and who gets to decide if they take the money or not. We don’t get to elect corporate CEOs.
So, being upset at corporations is fruitless. Going after the people we elect who accept money for favors is actually possible
Well, there are people who understand people, and there are people who emulate robots. I suppose it’s okay for wannabe-robots to assert nonsense for the sake of denying any collusion or corruption that’s obvious but out of view, but your nonsense isn’t going to persuade people who are actually okay with the act of breathing.
So you think going after the corporations is the best way to change laws and you like expressing yourself in pointless snark? Good luck with that. Check back in 10 years and let us know how many laws you got changed with that tact.
That didn’t even make sense except as pointless snark. “Best way”? That’s not only robotic, it’s stupid. Good luck with your lame trolling.
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