Re:Lime shuts in 12 markets, lays off around 100
by aok1425 on Thursday January 09, 2020 @08:11PM
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How are they slaves? They have the free will to decide if they want to work or not.
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Re:Lime shuts in 12 markets, lays off around 100
by evv on Thursday January 09, 2020 @08:35PM
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Yeah? Depends how you define free will.
If people want to eat and make rent, they need to afford it somehow, and the employment options are bleak (see: charging scooters).
So maybe you meant they have "the free will to decide if they want to work shitty jobs, or not live". We can't be too surprised that the suicide rate is going up in this country.
Re:Lime shuts in 12 markets, lays off around 100
by yibg on Thursday January 09, 2020 @09:44PM
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That’s a weird definition of a slave and free will. By this definition none of us have free will since most things we do are driven by some motivation. I want to eat and make rent, so I work for the money to do so. Now I’m a slave?
Re:Lime shuts in 12 markets, lays off around 100
by rbobby on Thursday January 09, 2020 @10:53PM
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I think it may have to do with the number of options a person has to earn money. To those with few options a shitty job can feel a lot like slavery.
Taking someone to task over the technically incorrect use of the word slavery seems a bit pedantic at best.
Re:Lime shuts in 12 markets, lays off around 100
by yibg on Thursday January 09, 2020 @11:44PM
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Income inequality, underemployment and lack of employment opportunities are real problems. But words have meaning, and we as a species have had a pretty ugly history with slavery. Let’s not dilute the meaning of that word when there are others that are more accurate.
Re:Lime shuts in 12 markets, lays off around 100
by morelisp on Friday January 10, 2020 @05:18PM
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Experience demonstrates that there may be a slavery of wages only a little less galling and crushing in its effects than chattel slavery, and this slavery of wages must go down with the other.
Re:Lime shuts in 12 markets, lays off around 100
by technobabble on Thursday January 09, 2020 @09:57PM
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If you hate your job, which has negative affects on your health, are you really free just because you get to choose what clothes you wear or what you have for lunch?