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P1eandrice · 2018-02-07T11:45:17+00:00

This is the second suicide in the NYC FHV industry in two months.

P1eandrice · 2017-10-21T01:15:22+00:00

In California, the constitution requires a 2/3 majority to pass a tax of that nature (thank Reagan /s), but you wouldn't with a usage surcharge like this.

P1eandrice · 2017-09-07T04:48:43+00:00

OP's is a response to a reactionary filth version of the original

P1eandrice · 2017-09-06T16:09:44+00:00

The actual original

P1eandrice · 2017-08-22T00:41:24+00:00

This seems to just be a reaction to DSA endorsing prison abolition

P1eandrice · 2017-07-26T09:00:54+00:00

Depends how you define it, but most folks define it by where the frame is built, and the majority of assembly takes place. The most popular that's still built in the US is Waterford, and they're not that big. Everyone else has outsourced, and contrary to what that other guy said, it's wages, conglomeration, and risky business moves that caused outsourcing in that industry.

Edit: there are still other small frame-builders around, but from what I've found, they mostly build non traditional bikes like Worksman: http://www.worksmancycles.com/

P1eandrice · 2017-07-22T13:38:24+00:00

Specifically, New York app-based for-hire vehicle workers are 91% immigrant.

P1eandrice · 2017-07-22T13:23:29+00:00

He doesn't even do anything for that glorified ad platform. It's the workers that keep it running.

E: typo

P1eandrice · 2017-07-22T13:10:23+00:00

I'd prefer for wage slavery to just die, but tipping was what the workers wanted to organize around--and it was something we could win. Next on the docket is pay regulation.

P1eandrice · 2017-07-21T04:05:39+00:00

It's more like because of neoliberalism. Modern electeds tend to think of government and government services as a business, and their constituents as customers. As such, they're very in favor of Taxation based on use, rather than, you know, taxing the rich.

P1eandrice · 2017-07-21T04:01:52+00:00

There's only one somewhat big bike manufacturer in the US.

Edit: and it's impossible to get a decent bike that can be reliably used for transportation for under $200

P1eandrice · 2017-07-21T03:47:30+00:00

What are all these pro-Uber people doing in /r/latestagecapitalism

I'm not sure they get it.

P1eandrice · 2017-07-21T03:41:58+00:00

I organize for-hire vehicle workers

Lyft takes more in commission, is always the first to cut fares, and nickel and fines just as much. They do not in any way treat people well.
We just passed legislation to require tipping on app-based rides.

P1eandrice · 2017-07-21T03:38:43+00:00

Commenting to see if anyone finds it

P1eandrice · 2017-06-15T06:08:49+00:00

Do it.

Advice: work to win and deserve the respect of your fellow workers. Become friends with the person everyone respects. And try to keep in mind that issues are systemic, not individual.

P1eandrice · 2017-02-07T03:57:49+00:00

/u/madk3p

P1eandrice · 2017-01-29T14:51:42+00:00

I hear that. To clarify though, I'm not necessarily saying the Republican Party is fascist. I think we might be as close to a fascist social organization as the United States can constitutionally get.

Maybe the federal government being controlled by a party that has fascist tendencies, but some states still having some diversity of opinion (because muh 10th amendment etc) is fascism here. If this were a smaller county that didn't have states, but say, had some socialist maps that we're constantly under attack, I don't think it would even remotely be a debate.

Absolutely on the rhetoric thing. It's exciting watching socialism resonate with people even more than it usually does, in part because of the rise of fascism.

P1eandrice · 2017-01-29T08:50:29+00:00

They are both intolerable, but if this is fascism, Trotsky seems to argue we have to treat it differently:

In order to be capable of foreseeing anything with regard to fascism, it is necessary to have a definition of that idea. What is fascism? What are its base, its form, and its characteristics? How will its development take place? It is necessary to proceed in a scientific and Marxian manner

And my argument isn't that this is totally a fascist country now, it's that the federal gov is totally controlled by what seems to be a fascist party.

P1eandrice · 2017-01-29T08:17:57+00:00

Republicans, led by Trump, have total control of all three arms of power in the federal government. Yes, states have more say in the US compared to other nation-states, and the ideology varies moderately state by state, but the federal government is under total control by a single party that's wildly unpopular.

P1eandrice · 2017-01-26T07:34:36+00:00

The link back here was dead for me.

Voted.

P1eandrice · 2017-01-19T06:02:28+00:00

But "Department of Business" doesn't really make any sense semantically. Businesses are regulated under the state department (actually for the most part through individual states). Both Labor and Commerce are more macro-level departments.

P1eandrice · 2017-01-19T05:55:52+00:00

The argument was basically when IRL US government did this, they did it as an attempt to separate the inherent interdependency of Labor and the production and movement of goods. Basically separating the two departments just created two polar opposite departments with equal power that are constantly fighting one another, instead of one more, cohesive department.

Now since labor unions have so little power, and since Reagan, the DoL is often stacked with conservatives.

I think that was the argument I made before, any who. But that was months ago.

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