The Gig Economy Celebrates Working To Excess

Re:The Gig Economy Celebrates Working To Excess by gambiting on Thursday March 23, 2017 @05:57AM (#13938470)

There's a Cadillac ad for US, where the narrator openly says that those Europeans enjoy their holidays, but an American works hard and gets to enjoy nice car cue cadillac car enters the scene. They openly ridicule the idea that Europeans can take a month of holiday per year. I do feel a bit sorry for that attitude.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNzXze5Yza8

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Re:The Gig Economy Celebrates Working To Excess by aembleton on Thursday March 23, 2017 @09:56AM (#13939720)

As a Brit, the thing that bothered me most about that advert wasn't the `taking August off` line.

It was the fact they showed the awful plasticy dashboard. It looked so cheap and nasty.

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Re:The Gig Economy Celebrates Working To Excess by jacquesm on Thursday March 23, 2017 @06:13AM (#13938541)

I wonder how many Europeans would trade their car for a Cadillac anyway, they're not very popular here because of fuel consumption and size.

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Re:The Gig Economy Celebrates Working To Excess by gambiting on Thursday March 23, 2017 @06:20AM (#13938568)

I'm actually extremely surprised that you can buy a Cadillac in EU at the moment, since Chrystler and Dodge stopped selling all of their cars in EU few years ago citing lack of interest - but apparently you can order a brand new CTS-V or an Escalade in the UK? http://www.cadillac.co.uk/v-series/cts-v-series.html

I've literally never seen a cadillac over here, except for a few US left-hand-drive imports.

And yes, an Escalade looks almost comical on UK roads, it's just too big by every measure.

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Re:The Gig Economy Celebrates Working To Excess by rsync on Thursday March 23, 2017 @11:29AM (#13940588)

"I'm actually extremely surprised that you can buy a Cadillac in EU at the moment, since Chrystler and Dodge stopped selling all of their cars in EU few years ago citing lack of interest - but apparently you can order a brand new CTS-V or an Escalade in the UK?"

Cadillac is produced by General Motors.

On my most recent trip to Zurich I saw cadillacs and chevy camaros, etc., out driving around.

They are crap cars but I think there's some counter-cultural cache that they possess in a place like that.

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Re:The Gig Economy Celebrates Working To Excess by 72deluxe on Thursday March 23, 2017 @08:43AM (#13939231)

I used to think Range Rovers were large in the UK until I went to NYC where it suddenly looked like a toy compared with the giant 4x4s they drove. How on earth anyone could survive being hit by one is beyond me - the radiator grill was chest height.

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Re:The Gig Economy Celebrates Working To Excess by bdavisx on Thursday March 23, 2017 @12:00PM (#13940958)

I'm an American and I wouldn't consider trading my Toyota Prius for a Cadillac. If someone was going to give me one, I might, maybe.

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