AndiHutch

@AndiHutch@lemmy.zip

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uber Eats is adding AI to menus, food photos, and reviews⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Why can’t the people we vote for represent us?

  Politicians were never meant to represent us (the people). We the people was war propaganda to revolt against the English and their king. They have, since the founding of the US, represented the business owners (landowners). And even after giving women and black people the right to vote, the system still mostly represents the interest of the business owners.

  Bug report closed: System works as intended.

  For the politicians to actually represent us, we the people would need to have some sort of broad agreement on what we do and do not want. But unfortunately, the people don’t have the needed experience or education to come to that agreement. So instead we get 2 different flavors of politicians serving the owners and none serving the people. Pick your favorite team, but they do not currently represent the people’s interest, instead they represent the business owners’ interests.

  As a people, our job is to attempt to bend the politicians and business owners’ to our will using what we currently have at our disposal: our actions and our words. But that still won’t get anywhere without many other people backing up our actions and our words with their actions and words. It won’t be easy, but it is necessary if we want to shape our societies future. If we don’t do it, we get shadowy groups like the heritage foundation doing it for the business owners and pushing it on our leaders.

  Also the politicians’ job is largely dependent upon them listening to the demands of the businesses lobbyist as of now. If they don’t follow their wishes they can expect a harder battle to keep their seat. They would get less big campaign donations and stronger primary challengers as a result of their noncompliance. This makes our job harder since it is difficult to get them to understand something when their job and salary depends upon them not understanding it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epstein puts my morality into perspective⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  if they think they can get away with it.

  You missed this apparently.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epstein puts my morality into perspective⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Also stealing wages via tips is different than not paying the difference between tipped min wage and regular minimum wage when there isn’t much business. Maybe there was some confusion on your part about what I was referring to there.

  Both are forms of wage theft and both do happen, but I wasn’t referring to stealing tips in my OC. Perhaps I could’ve worded my comment better to make that clearer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epstein puts my morality into perspective⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Why the hostility and insults to unskilled essential workers? Those jobs are often worked at by young workers who don’t necessarily know their rights. I agree it’s bad business practice to do it but it absolutely happens.

  Its not your employer’s job to babysit your paycheck.

  LOL Yes, it literally is.

  dolts like you … If you arent reporting discrepancies, thats on you

  Nice insult, very constructive. What would the capitalist business owners do without people like you putting down workers and defending their shitty business practices? Also ah yes it is the workers fault for that they are getting wages stolen from them not the owner’s or manager’s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epstein puts my morality into perspective⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And lots of employers will refuse to pay more than the tipped rate on slow days stealing wages from the workers if they think they can get away with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Asking ”what is tagalog” is really disrespectful waste of everybody’s time.

  That maybe a bit of an ironic opinion in this community. :)

  The phrase ”english and tagalog” clearly indicates that it’s a language. Moreover, it is a single word, which is really, really easy to use a search engine for.

  I get that but clarification can be helpful for the next 100 people that read the thread. Chances are most people won’t search it but they still wouldn’t mind knowing anyway.

  Maybe I should’ve put an ‘um aCtUaLlY’ in front of the first point as I knew you weren’t saying it literally. I didn’t mean to insult or to put you down, I know we all have different things that annoy us. Anyway thanks for being so gracious and empathetic. :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, they are not. Big tech corps don’t care about you, they care about profit. They will gladly assist in genocide for a bit more profit.

  There is really no need to reply with that to tell someone to search something themselves. There are better ways to encourage someone to look something up than that.

  It is also lowkey annoying to ask a question and get a glib answer like that.