2 hoursThis guy keeps proving me wrong about not liking him. Good stuff. I love being wrong when its beneficial to citizens of wherever. And he seems to be the one politician in the US actually doing something good, who would have thought?
Curious, why didn’t you like him? I live on the complete opposite side of the country, so I’m pretty far removed, but everything I’ve heard about him has been positive.
During his campaign he made, like any other fucking politician, many promises that were unhinged for anyone that knows anything on how the government infrastructure works at the federal, state and city levels, and of course that made me instantly put him together with the rest of the politicians. Don’t get me wrong, the other 2 candidates were infinitely worse, no discussion there. As expected, when he won, and took office, he had to pedal back on some of those promises. However, as I said, I AK happy for New Yorkers to see that I was wrong about the guy, as he keeps surprising me in the best way possible. Now, make no mistake, he is still a politician, and I hold absolutely no faith in any of them, left, right, center, up or down. But the guy is, by miles, the best official in any seat in the US right now. I also like Kennedy from Texas, but for entirely different reasons. The guy is a solid attorney and will destroy his opponents with facts, even if he doesn’t like the facts himself. Again, he is a politician, so I’m sure he’s full of shit too, but it is fun to see him perform though. Full disclosure, I’m jot from NY, but I would certainly like a mayor in my city like Mandani, ours is a fucking moron that can’t tell chocolate from shit 😒
- 4 hours
when self driving cars get here these jobs will all be gone and delivery will be super cheap. i can’t wait.
- Malyca@lemmy.zipEnglish1 hour
Being excited about the prospect of thousands of people losing their jobs is really strange.
- 1 hour
it’d be more than thousands of people. but the thing is, when productivity is increased and more wealth is generated and people aren’t needed to do certain jobs anymore we have more free time or time to focus on stuff that we like or stuff that’s more productive like other work, that’s a good thing. the problem is when that excess wealth is generated it only going in the hands of the few. i would say it would be a good idea to tax the robots that start replacing jobs so that the wealth is spread amongst the people that lost their jobs and not just into the hands of the wealthy few. andrew yang talked about this a lot back in 2020 and a lot of what he predicted came true. he proposed a universal basic income to help redistribute wealth.
- Soup@lemmy.worldEnglish15 minutes
Bro, we’re so much more productive in every way than we’ve ever been. Every year it’s another tool and more promises that if we all buy into this billionaire’s new toy we’ll never work again and every year it’s more of the same. The only thing that ever comes true is that the rich take more and return less. Our productivity has never resulted in fewer work hours for the same or more money. The best we got was a reduction in work hours that people fought died over.
You’re cheering on and funding a future that wants to erase you, not benefit you. You cannot build the future you claim will exist if you start with a rotten foundation which can’t even offer more a couple days sick leave if you’re lucky, and which treats human beings as tools for the enrichment of a select handful of lazy parasites. You’re gunna build your replacement and then, as has always happened, you’ll ask for your reward and they’ll show you the fuckin’ door. How many pieces of media show that same naivety right before the scientist who made the villain strong gets used as a punching bag so no one else will benefit? It’s a tale as old as time, a lesson we cannot seem to learn.
- 3 hours
bro it’ll be here i hope in at least 10 years. then we wont need to buy cars, we can just call a self driving uber and it’ll be cheaper.
- 1 hour
Rather than having a bunch of self driving cars we could just… invest in public transit right now? Yknow the thing that gets people from point A to point B without having to buy a car? And it’s cheaper than a bunch of individual cars bc one train or bus can carry a lot more passengers than a car. And it’s more environmentally friendly. And it already exists, unlike fully autonomous self driving cars
- 31 minutes
we have public transit in the US, just not in low density suburban areas. because you can’t walk to a bus stop in the suburbs. it’s too far. you can’t just “invest” in that, at least not in an economically feasible way either. also there’s just annoyances, like a train can’t park in a parking lot. there’s a lot more walking to do. if public transit were this magical solution we would’ve already done it.
- 13 minutes
It’s called walkable cities and neighborhoods. We don’t need to have suburbs. They suck. Instead people should be able to walk to a grocery store within 15 minutes of their home. Other counties have walkable cities. Some cities in America are even walkable. It just means that we need to adjust our zoning laws and actually invest in our communities (including low density suburban and rural communities). We invest insane amounts of money into car infrastructure that could be going towards public transit. This would help not just people who don’t/wouldn’t own a car if public transit were realistically available to them, but it would also help people who choose to still own a car bc it would actually decrease traffic unlike adding another lane to a highway
- Polisheocket@lemmy.zipEnglish2 hours
Depends on what you do for work. My wife is all over the place with clients, she will always need a vehicle
- 2 hours
well the theory of how self driving cars would eventually become is if you have an app that can order a self driving vehicle, the closest one to you will be there for you. you can set the time you need it ready by and it will be there. we kinda already do that now with transportation apps, but with self driving cars i think it would be more efficient. idk. i guess owning, driving, and parking your own car will probably always be a little faster because its in the parking lot of your store or of your house right where you left it, but it wouldn’t be that much faster.
- Polisheocket@lemmy.zipEnglish1 hour
I get what you’re saying for sure. I work from Home and don’t really need a car especially if auto drive cars are that prevalent. I guess where I’m also at is I want to own something and not just maybe payments to a corporation for rides
- 1 hour
i think people should still be allowed to own their own cars, but getting rid of the need to own cars with cheap self driving transportation as an option sounds good to me. more options is always better. not everyone can afford to own their own car either. and if it also reduces deaths because self driving cars are better at driving it will also be a public service.
What from Over, Doordash or any of the others lead you to think it’ll be cheaper if/when that happens? Because these companies don’t have a spectacular record of looking for ways to save the customers any money, as far as I’m aware.
- 1 hour
basically not having to pay delivery drivers, the work itself is cheaper, so they can lower costs. a lot of times high costs is due to operational costs which includes employees and if operational costs are brought down prices on things like doordash would go down too.
I honestly doubt that those savings would go to the clients, in all likelihood, they would just become profit margin.
- 1 hour
i agree with you they would try to profit more, (they’re a business so of course). but i think lowering operational costs allows them to lower their prices too, while also profiting more. we need a good way to ensure monopolies don’t just all agree to set a standard price and not compete with each other, i haven’t thought of one yet except outright monopoly busting. but i do think in general lowering costs to create goods allows goods to be cheaper especially when they’re facing and trying to undercut other competitors/competition.
- hoppeduponcoffee@lemmy.zipEnglish22 hours
Just make them roll an extra 15% into the cost of delivery and pay the drivers more. Tips are dumb.
If you want a luxury food delivery service, then pay the luxury cost.
That shit is already marked up to hell and back. If they bumped it up another 15%, it would be even more insane.
- Leviathan@lemmy.worldEnglish4 hours
Honestly, if they killed them and brought us back to restaurants hiring their own delivery drivers I think we’d be better off.
- 1 hour
Fr. I’m so sick of ordering directly from a restaurant only for them to send me a doordash delivery link to track my order. At least domino’s (the only pizza place that will delivery to my area somehow??) has their own drivers
- Leviathan@lemmy.worldEnglish37 minutes
I have a short list of local places that hire their own drivers and I refuse to order delivery from anywhere else. I’ll pick it up or just miss it altogether. No need to participate in the enshitification of everything.
- ms.lane@lemmy.worldEnglish2 days
“Uber Eats and DoorDash hid tip buttons and set default tips below 10%. As a result, tips for delivery workers fell 79%,” Mamdani wrote on X. “In January, we made these corporations change their apps.”
Not on board with this, JUST PAY THEM A PROPER WAGE.
Tipping culture is stupid.
- RamRabbit@lemmy.worldEnglish1 hour
Exactly! Set the minimum wage to a reasonable level; mandating tip buttons by law is asinine. The government should be discouraging paying people via tips, not mandating it.
- 50 minutes
I think part of the problem is also that these delivery drivers aren’t wage employees. They’re technically self employed/contractors for these companies. Which means that the rules about pay and minimum wage are slightly different
I don’t know of a single person who drives their own car for these delivery apps that makes a significant profit after taking into account their milage/gas costs. Many people actually claim a loss if their vehicle isn’t very fuel efficient and they aren’t being efficient about doing multiple deliveries on one route. The only people I know who make decent money are those that do deliveries with a bike. So while Mamdani can help the situation a little with city ordinances and stuff, what we really need is federal regulation on these companies
- 2 days
While I share the sentiment, he doesn’t have control over Federal wage laws. Ensuring that being tipped sufficiently is the norm is about the best option he has to protect tipped wages. I’m not sure if he can somehow ban tipped employment within the city or not. If he can, maybe that’ll be planned in the future.
- KumaLumaJuma@feddit.ukEnglish1 day
Can cities not set their own? Federal minimum wage is the floor if the local legislation doesn’t set a minimum.
- Flames5123@sh.itjust.worksEnglish1 day
They can. Seattle’s minimum wage is the highest in the country, and we even have mandated that delivery services pay this minimum wage. Now they show “extra fees” to “pay for this” like they didn’t have the money for it before…
Even if prices just go up from inflation, they’ll say it’s because they’re forced to treat people like people.
- KumaLumaJuma@feddit.ukEnglish1 day
Annoying but it’s a start in the right direction.
It’s ridiculous anyway that federal minimum wage is still $7.25 🤦♀️🤦♀️
- 1 day
Setting minimum wages is different than outright banning tipping.
- TheHotze@lemmy.worldEnglish1 day
It depends on the state. In Nebraska, two of the largest cities are fighting a legal battle over whether they can raise minimum wage to meet a ballot initiative that the unicameral watered down.
- 1 day
If this is what winning looks like, I want to keep winning
I mean they’re trying in the affordability thing but it’s still New York.
- melfie@lemmy.zipEnglish1 day
Cities typically offer public transport, so I do wonder what it would it would take for a city to run their own ride-sharing service. There are various open source Uber alternatives, but not sure how good any of them are. Marketing and getting people to use something like this would be the hard part for any independent organization, but a city government should have a much easier time getting people to use it.
- frongt@lemmy.zipEnglish1 day
The state of Massachusetts runs a paratransit system for people who can’t use public transit. It’s expensive and not great. They’ve started to offload some ridership to Uber and Lyft where it makes sense, e.g. people without wheelchairs.
- melfie@lemmy.zipEnglish1 day
Government agencies partnering with Uber and Lyft unfortunately does seem to be pretty common, which goes in the opposite direction of creating less exploitative alternatives.
- dubyakay@lemmy.caEnglish2 hours
Not if the government sets the fees and wages in the contract and tells them to fuck off and goes with the competitor if they are in breach.
- 1 day
Ahhh, The Ride. Don’t depend to arrive on time for your appointment.
- Simulation6@sopuli.xyzEnglish2 days
What possible benefit is it to these companies to hide the tip button? The usual scam is that the company keeps some or all of the tips for themselves.
Corey doctorow writes about this in his brilliant book “Enshittification - Why everything suddenly got worse and what to do about ut it.”.
It’s to take away the power for drivers to choose rides based on earnings.
The tipping is manipulated by the company both towards drivers and customers, to optimize for profit above predictable earnings for drivers and reliable service and fast deliveries for customers.
It’s algorithmic manipulation and “twiddling with the knobs” to bring in marginally more profit and less payout per transaction.
Just like Uber does with it’s transportation services. Drivers that take any ride that comes up, earn less pr drive, while drivers that are reluctant will get incentivised to drive more (and then gradually earn less).
Companies are using the huge amounts of data they have to manipulate both customers and service providers, it’s the devil in all these “middleman” businesses. It’s a rotten and hugely shitty way of doing things and its gradually becoming the norm for fucking everything.
I cannot recommend Corey’s book enough, not only is it clear and concise in describing these mechanisms in several markets and technologies, it’s easy to read and witty with Corey’s beautiful bitter sarcastic takes all the way through.
- madcaesar@lemmy.worldEnglish1 day
Mass data has made everything worse. Everything has to be optimized now down to the 0.000001% to make sure every cent is sucked away from regular people.
- Javi@feddit.ukEnglish2 days
My guess would be that a lower price will equate to more sales, whilst the company itself doesn’t lose out on any of their revenue.
- 1 day
In that case they would like to get rid of tipping entirely, but then the drivers would stop driving.
My dad drives for Uber Eats and he accepts less than half of all delivery offers that are sent to him while he’s signed in. Many of those offers pay so poorly he would lose money on fuel costs if he did accept them. Shit like somebody wanting him to drive across town to deliver them a single Starbucks drink and putting no tip on the offer. Some of these things are just idiots not knowing how to use the app and picking restaurants that are 10 miles away instead of the equivalent restaurant nearby.
My dad makes most of his money from expensive orders to high end restaurants where people put down $20+ tips, but those are not common enough to rely on. Thankfully, where we live, the government has forced Uber Eats to “top up” his pay to minimum wage if it falls short, and they aren’t allowed to include tips in that calculation.
It just makes their revenue jump a tiny bit.
Less money spent on tips means larger and more frequent orders.
- jimmy90@lemmy.worldEnglish2 days
well i guess we’re going to have
- Mamdani groceries
- Mamdani deliveries
- Mamdani oil?
he’s the new bezos
The socialist solution to the oil problem will probably make you mad too.
- hoppeduponcoffee@lemmy.zipEnglish22 hours
Damn, having him nationalize the oil industry with 50% of the revenue funneled towards development of alternative energy. Don’t threaten me with a good time.
- BigMacHole@thelemmy.clubEnglish1 day
This is EXACTLY right because Mamdani is PERSONALLY funding ALL those things with his OWN Money!
-You!
- village604@adultswim.fanEnglish1 day
I mean, I don’t agree with him, but people slapping their names on something they didn’t personally do isnt uncommon. Just look at Trump.
Edit: I don’t agree with the top level comment. I realize my wording was ambiguous and could be taken as disagreeing with Mandami
- OccamsRazer@lemmy.worldEnglish1 day
Yes but without any of the technical or industry knowledge or experience needed to make a viable product within the margins of resource costs.
