mrkirk

Apple is pretty much an exception of a hardware company that still shine as a cool place to work. These traditional industrial jobs have moved abroad a long time ago. You will find at most prototyping in the US, however everything is manufactured in China. The pandemics has proven that. Even on sensitive medical equipment, the mass production takes place in China.

I try the same. Usually these platform over change customer and underpay those that are delivering real value in the production chain. If you ever worked in a restaurant you would think twice when giving money to companies like Uber. They are constantly gaming customers, restaurants and drivers.

The middleman nightmare. Everybody wants to capture the middleman, which drains those that deliver value. That can be applied to Airbnb, Ubereats, car dealership, gig economy. These platforms have very low liability regarding labor cost and controls the access to the goods offered. This whole gig economy is putting small businesses and workers in a position where the information asymmetry is so huge that is putting them in constant price pressure, below the reasonable to be worth operating. It’s too much competition on small business and workers.

I totally agree with this rationale. What boggles my mind in the US is the fact that people making near minimum wage is pushed to buy cars because cities do not provide public transportation that enable them to have mobility. Here, I am talking about major urban areas around the US, where you are not able to have daily commute to work if you don’t have a car. This is very perverse from the economic mobility.

These people compromise a big portion of their income on Car financing + insurance + gas, that otherwise could be reverted as education, higher quality food, or better quality housing. I believe if we had a proper funded public transportation system, 200 dollars on unlimited public transportation ride ticket would be enough for most of the people.