So you are saying that if something is not delivered in an Amazon truck or by the post office or UPS, that those drivers work for a third party company that underpays them? Certainly plausible, but how often does that happen (that’s a question, not a statement)? I just don’t see that where I live.

While I understand my comment may not be popular, I don’t think we can have every job pay to support someone as a career. While I think that jobs should pay a decent wage there are different values assigned to jobs. Delivering food is not something that you should depend on to pay your bills, IMO. Working at a shopping…

Let’s be real here. DoorDash, Lyft, and Uber drivers are contractors by every legal definition.

Name one Driver that has a gun to their head to Work. Name one driver that has an education or licensable skilled trade that would earn him a higher wage. Why is this the company’s fault? Look, if its your lifes goal is to drive a taxi(uber) or any food delivery, you may as well quit high school now and get some real…

The whole gig food delivery economy seems doomed to fail

To be fair to the “gig” jobs, they weren’t supposed to be full time employment. Now, I am not saying the companies didn’t incentivize working on their platform more. But you weren’t supposed to be able to live off doordash, uber, lyft or any of those other services, at least from their lense.

If the pay sucks, just don’t work.

Article is misleading. Amazon lost $2.4B on NA distribution operations in 2022 (even more internationally). Including AWS metrics in this discussion is inappropriate.  

I wonder what the percentages are on drivers who continuously stick to these gig deliveries and how much of it is just people who do it for a month or so before realizing they basically make no money once they have to repair/replace anything on the car. I did one after the last time I moved, and it was a very helpful…

Even so, Amazon reported $514 billion in net sales. While that isn’t profit, it’s still way more than the $1.3 billion spent in wage increases. These companies could easily pay workers or contractors much more than they currently do.

I’ve worked for DD. They definitely fudge the amount of money you can expect to make on an hourly basis. The figure they give - which I want to say is something like $20+ an hour - is really just for people doing this in very large metropolitan places, and it’s not accounting for gas, maintenance, or income tax.

The implication is that the sperm donor was likely more involved either with the couple, or with the child than what the article states and that may have been a factor in the ruling. I suspect that there is more to the ruling than the single quote provided from the judge. I’d be more likely to buy that nothing was…

^This!^
I love how the article keeps referring to Harlan Vaughan as the sperm donor to minimize him. He definitely became something different when the child was, ya know living with him! I’m sure there are cut and dry situations out there that would be much better examples of the unfairness of the system to LGBTQ…

Yes they absolutely can lose parental rights if they are abusive. The bar set for losing them is just very high, but it is possible. 

Right? This seems really dishonest. 

Clearly there’s more going on here than what is being stated. She moved in with the sperm donor after the fact. It seems a lot is being left out to make the case this is solely about LGBT parental rights, when it probably isn’t. 

Wow that response didn’t make you seem like an unhinged Jolie fan at all. 🙄

“As Jezebel reported” no ya’ll copy pasted a section of an actual piece of journalism

Good observation. He also hasn’t filed any countersuits crying about defamation. He’s been close to silent during all this, which at least prevents the children from reading about their parents insulting each other. 

Not as important as his alleged behavior but yeah... he was very much nominated for an award last night: best supporting actor for his role in Babylon. Not that difficult to search for.