My dad was from San Francisco and I dreamed of having the money to move there one day and when I took trips there in the early-mid ‘00s I still held on to that dream. City Lights and AT&T Park and wandering through the Mission and etc..

Then I visited it post-Web 2.0 boom when hotel room rates had tripled and basically…

Sure you did.

... people wouldn’t pay the actual cost of an Uber ride. If they would, rideshare companies would charge it. Uber’s value proposition requires that they be cheap enough that driving yourself isn’t worth it (in most of the country) and in areas well-served by taxis that they be cheaper than those.

The only way to…

Force Uber to pay a living base wage, classify their drivers as employees, and limit the number of cars deployed.

It is such an incredibly dark view of humanity to believe that the only reason people do anything is that they face the alternative of dying in a ditch.

Ugh, looks too much like their godforsaken sedan.

Is that really what this is? DSA members in NY are going to vote for Nixon, guaranteed - the fundamental question is whether they should, as an organization, endorse non-members. This isn’t a single interest group (say, reproductive rights) that can endorse the candidate with the strongest record/policy line…

A home for aging knuckleballers.

As opposed to his gold digging, worthless relatives who were eagerly awaiting his death?

At least his wife had to put in some work and touch his sad, saggy old man balls.

Steal whatever you can from the big/evil boys?

Three guys my dad worked with (one in flooring, two plumbers) actually did move from independent contracting to working for Home Depot in the late ‘90s or early ‘00s as in-store experts. The pay was very close to what an individual plumber (not running multiple crews) could pull down without the miseries of being an…

Home Depot certainly deserves it, but it also presents a fallacy that other big boxers are a Utopia.

I’d be more worried about a Cascadia ‘big one’

You’re still arguing the merits of the case, you weird nerd.

Now you’re arguing the merits of the case. You didn’t read, so let’s repeat: the very act of being sued by a billionaire would ruin me and most other people. I couldn’t hire a lawyer to write a letter to my mother, much less face a billionaire’s legal team for even one day.

I see by the reams of replies, though, where…

If it wasn’t an issue or shady, would that person not still be writing for Alpha?

Giving yourself heart disease to own the libs.

Thanks for the reminder that Mark Cuban paid Raef Lafrentz $80mn back when that was a huge salary.

That newfangled buzzword “collective bargaining.”

Usual reminder here that a greater percentage of Bernie primary voters voted for Hillary in the general than ‘08 Hillary voters for Obama.