Seriously, poop when you need to, folks. Just make sure you get enough fiber in your diet for it not to be that big a deal.

if uber drivers unionize than they essentially become a taxi company. the reason that all of use uber is because they are not a taxi company.

Most cabbies are employees of cab companies that actually own the medallions and the cars. The drivers work regular shifts and can be dispatched anywhere, in contrast to Uber drivers who self-direct both their hours and their assignments.

If they were employees, they could unionize and demand workplace protections and health care benefits and all of the other things that our system provides to employees.

Missed a step.

Still not as stupid as your opinions about “monopsony,” somehow.

But you surely recognize that if a company has the ability to name the price at which they will buy labor they have monopsony power?

Ummm, how does Uber break monopsony power when the purchase of the ride and its pricing has to be filtered through Uber, who can change that price for Uber drivers without any renegotiation?

You didn’t get the memo, The Concourse is now Neo-Gawker. HamNo needed some place to publish his woefully simplistic and in no way realistic socialist screeds.

The correct view of an employer as monopsony is that it is difficult for you to quit and find another job, so in the short term your current employer is the only one buying your services. This applies to any employer, not just big ones; in fact, “sharing economy” services like Uber break the employer’s monopsony hold,…

In economics, a monopsony (from Ancient Greek μόνος (mónos) “single” + ὀψωνία (opsōnía) “purchase”) is a market structure in which only one buyer interacts with many would-be sellers of a particular product.

+1 parking ticket.

I am also a DC resident, and honestly? I can’t get that worked up about it. If you retrocede the District to Maryland, it’s not like those people will be more meaningfully represented than they are now.

Term limits for Congress are not a good idea, unless your objective is to arrogate even more day-to-day power to the administrative state.

Well, the OP doesn’t provide enough information to make that call one way or another. If the roommate is a student or congressional employee it could be above-board.

Okay, moving to vote sounds stupid when it is way easier to just keep a license and get your shit sent to your parents address

If only 2-8% of rape accusations are demonstrably false, it does not logically follow that 92-98% of rape accusations are true.

Jones isn’t on a rookie contract, and Fleury will be gone by the time Murray’s next deal kicks in. Smart teams manage their pipelines so they don’t get stuck devoting $9M+ to goaltending.

when you have a player like Larkin you want to spend as little time rebuilding as possible

That beautiful Swedish bastard ain’t getting any younger. Things are going to get ugly as hell in Manhattan if and when he hits the wall.