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Re:E Ink smart screen puts a newspaper on your wall by umvi on Friday April 10, 2020 @11:12AM (#22833818)
That's not a living wage
Re:E Ink smart screen puts a newspaper on your wall by kfriede on Friday April 10, 2020 @11:34AM (#22834077)
Let's say it takes someone 30 minutes in total to drive to your house, replace it, and drive back to their own house.

If they did it every day, that's 15 hours in a month, or 182.5 hours in a year.

If you paid that person $1500 for the year, that's $8.22 per hour, above federal minimum wage.

Re:E Ink smart screen puts a newspaper on your wall by organsnyder on Friday April 10, 2020 @12:09PM (#22834416)
The minimum wage is far lower than a living wage, even in low-COL areas.
Re:E Ink smart screen puts a newspaper on your wall by arkanciscan on Friday April 10, 2020 @01:57PM (#22835541)
Y'all need hobbies
Re:E Ink smart screen puts a newspaper on your wall by Phrenzy on Friday April 10, 2020 @02:45PM (#22836112)
I suggest they put a newspaper on someone's wall.
Re:E Ink smart screen puts a newspaper on your wall by Grustaf on Saturday April 11, 2020 @04:02AM (#22840327)
Yeah but it doesn’t take 30 minutes, more like 5 minutes if a lot of people were using this service. Or 2 minutes if you simply paid the paper boy to do it!
Re:E Ink smart screen puts a newspaper on your wall by ColanR on Friday April 10, 2020 @11:19AM (#22833894)
If someone considers it the best use of their time, they're better off with extra cash than without.
Re:E Ink smart screen puts a newspaper on your wall by umvi on Friday April 10, 2020 @01:13PM (#22835040)
By that logic gig economy apps are good, yet they are heavily criticized and in some cases sued.
Re:E Ink smart screen puts a newspaper on your wall by Green_man on Friday April 10, 2020 @04:02PM (#22836812)
Gig economy apps being criticized or even sued is not evidence they are bad.

*I don't personally like them, but no doubt there are workers that like their jobs at doordash or uber--> not everyone doing those jobs is doing them out of desperation.

Re:E Ink smart screen puts a newspaper on your wall by umvi on Friday April 10, 2020 @04:59PM (#22837316)
Well I guess the question is: if desperate people might take the job, and the job is not sustainable for anyone but teenagers and retirees, should the job be allowed to exist seeing as it would not sustain the desperate person?
Re:E Ink smart screen puts a newspaper on your wall by Green_man on Monday April 13, 2020 @12:55AM (#22853286)
sorry for the late reply,

my answer might reveal a philosophical difference between our points of view, but I'd ask: would the desperate person be better with a job that covers some of their expenses or no job that coverers none of their expenses? I believe in having a social safety net of some kind (i really like negative income tax), but how useful is it for the government to ban jobs people would otherwise work?

the argument could be made that uber could just be forced to pay a living wage, instead of banning their jobs- but the difference is small. uber is already losing money- i would say that forcing them to pay a "living wage" just hastens their collapse and bankruptcy, so we're back to arguing if these jobs are better existing or not existing.

Re:E Ink smart screen puts a newspaper on your wall by Klinky on Friday April 10, 2020 @11:53PM (#22839532)
It's not a job, it's a gig. Don't go getting DoorDash in trouble. They might have to start treating their employees as employees!
Re:E Ink smart screen puts a newspaper on your wall by fullstop on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @02:19PM (#22869483)
If I had a newspaper delivered to my door I'm not paying a living wage for the delivery person either. How is this any different?
Re:E Ink smart screen puts a newspaper on your wall by mpweiher on Saturday April 11, 2020 @12:09PM (#22842377)
That's not a full time job.