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WHAAAATTT THE FFFFUUUUCCCCCCK

payup.wtf/doordash/no-free-lun

"Our analysis of more than two hundred samples of pay data provided by DoorDash workers across the country finds that DoorDash pays the average worker an astonishingly low $1.45/hour, after accounting for the costs of mileage and additional payroll taxes borne by independent contractors. Nearly a third of jobs actually pay less than $0 after accounting for these basic expenses."

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J.S.Bach - Sonatas & Partitas For Lute

Lutenist: Hopkinson Smith

Tony de Sukhanov
1 year ago
“Bach's music is the only argument proving the creation of the Universe cannot be regarded as a complete failure.”
Emil Cioran

Signal Service
2 hours ago
There's a subtle phrase, approx. 20 to 25 minutes in that sounds reminiscent of Aqua's "I'm a Barbie girl, in a Barbie world".

Ian Kenway boosted

True tech nerddom utopia is thirty devs in a room all using different linux distros and arguing about which one is best

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@iankenway Isnt that sorta the point, that you use your own ethics to decide the rules and not be beholden to the ethics of the EU?

I'd say this is a good thing and the primary advantage of a Brexit, the fact that each entity can follow their own moral path and attempt their own social experiments internally to figure out what works.

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Capitalism can only justify labor which profits. Structures or institutions that cannot sufficiently monetize their operations whither and die except on a volunteer basis. Scarcity-immune goods and services, such as digital media, can then only be justified with the introduction of scarcity. A great deal of labor goes into introducing and maintaining scarcity where there is none, which can only exist by taking its own share of the wealth it extracts, cementing this gatekeeping as a shared interest between the owning class and this segment of the working class. Thus ads become a form of rent, the flicker of your eyeballs a form of payment for materials which have no per-use cost, and every plea to disable your ad-blocker comes from a hostage. Because capitalism charges us for survival, we find ourselves obliged to maintain the institutions that keep us employed, for in them we see the only means of living. 

If you want a usable web, you want to end capitalism.

Toot Redux (first published 30th December 2016)

True then. Even truer now!

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