Thats a nice ETF. Expense ratio is pretty low and its performance YTD and 1Y are within about .5% of the S&P500 (with it beating the S&P500 YTD).
For others, if you’d received this magical $50k exactly 1 year ago and invested it in ESGV, you’d have about $60k today.
Fair enough. I admit, as someone who can’t drive IRL, I like things like Slow Roads too, or other driving sims that are generally not fantasy - just ‘cozy’ experiences.
When I was forming my original question, I did consider an audience this might appeal to for those that couldn’t drive (for whatever reason). I appreciate you sharing your POV on this.
I always considered Rideshare driving as the opposite of relaxing because of the physical dangers to drivers as well as the stress the drivers have from trying to make their money against rising fuel costs, insurance costs, and competion from platforms forcing down fare rates. Perhaps the Rideshare game masks all of these elements of the actual rideshare business and simply presents it as a task/goal game with a social aspect which would be far more appealing.
Crazy Taxi (and Simpsons: Road Rage") were largely about driving poorly, crashing into things, and performing automobile jumps that would be considered suicidal if done for real. It was a fantasy driving game with the taxi business as the thinnest excuse to be driving. Unless I’ve drastically mistaken what Rideshare Simulator is, I don’t think Crazy Taxi example is applicable.
Fifteen years before Crazy Taxi, we had Space Taxi for the Commodore 64:
I’d say Space Taxi and Crazy Taxi had equal amounts of relevance to the taxi industry in the sense that they were an excuse to fly/drive in fantasy settings instead of an actual business simulator.
I read the article just to confirm this wasn’t a The Onion article. I understand there are games that simulate work like farming and even powerwashing. Even though I don’t play those, I can mildly see the appeal as you’re creating something (farming) or making something better than it was before (powerwashing). However, I see zero appeal for a game that simulates gig work like ridesharing. Can someone explain it to me, or have I reach a pivotal “too old” moment in my life?
Any chance you could get licensed in another state using what you know (without an apprenticeship) then seek licensing in your own state via some kind of reciprocity agreement with your home state?
“There is a two raspberry fee for making withdraws from this ATM. Do you want to continue?”
My current folding (flip) screen is still working after 3 years. My prior folding (flip) phone also lasted 3 years before I had to replace it because I dropped it and broke the camera. The screen is still fine on that phone though.
My current flip does have a wear mark at the fold seam on the screen, but that was my fault for using it for over an hour in -22°F outdoor weather, then promptly folding it and putting it back in my pocket out of habit. I don’t recommend doing that. However, the folding screen is fully functional and you can only see the mark on the screen when its off or if you hold it at a specific reflective angle. When the screen is one and you’re reading on it, its very hard to see the mark. Its not nearly bad enough for me to replace the phone.
Mike Lindell, the lumpy pillow salesman…
Making a statement to gain something, then completely contradicting it later on to gain something additional even if it makes them a hypocrite? That’s the trump way. If anything trump should be proud this candidate is copying his playbook so closely.
However, voters should also recognize that any campaign promises from this candidate have an expiry date of the day of election. If this candidate were to get into office, they’d throw out anything that got them there and switch to a completely self serving agenda. Its the modern GOP way.
“I renew my heartfelt appeal for international humanitarian law to be respected and for attacks against civilian targets to cease on both sides,” the pope added.
Which attacks by Ukraine are against civilian targets, Leo?
For me grey is a nice utility color. Black cars show dirt easy as do white cars. Grey cars, not as much.
We do lots of things wrong here, but our power bill is based on usage. If you only use this much, this is your rate and the more you use the higher your rate goes.
At the residential level that can exist too in the USA, but its not nearly that simple here in the USA, and I doubt its entirely that simple in your country either. Electricity isn’t like a tank of fuel that is drawn down and refilled. Besides maintaining the infrastructure for generation and delivery, electrical capacity at any given moment has to be built into the system, not just pure total consumption over time. So simply paying for electricity consumed doesn’t capture all of those costs in the system to make that electricity consumption possible to the consumer.
Commercial/Industrial customers in the USA don’t just pay for “amount consumed” but also “demand charges” which means “at any given point how much electricity will you be pulling from the grid?”. Its not uncommon that the demand charges for businesses can be larger than the charges for amount of electricity consumed. Additionally, some European governments give large breaks in electricity rates to incentivize certain industries. Germany for example gives 50% discounts on electricity for chemical production, glass producers, or semiconductor producers if those companies invest in decarbonization efforts.
Many European commercial/industrial electricity consumers have variations on what I described above in addition to wholesale electricity purchases for a given period which also breaks away from your described “pay for what you use with higher rates for more consumption”.
Can I ask you what country you’re in (or another country that you know uses your country’s same system)?
No I wasn’t suggested it be forced or companies be nationalized.
My mistake then. So in your proposed system private companies would continue to exist.
I was saying governments could provide incentives and support for workers to form worker owned companies.
If that’s the case, I’ll go back to my first statement then. Tech workers will likely choose the higher risk but higher reward private company rather than one that my only have a modest return. If the private companies exist along side the co-ops, the boom and bust cycles will still exist except the co-ops won’t be the beneficiary, but will certainly be on the losing side of cycles.
In order to transition to worker owned companies, it would be difficult as you mention, but governments could provide financial to help to get worker owned companies started.
Hang on. You’re proposing seizure of existing private companies and forcing the creation of the worker co-ops? Thats a very different thing. Should I assume your system would ban future private companies then?
I wouldn’t agree either of those approaches. Choice is important. Forcing people into co-ops because you think its better for them isn’t a system I’m interested in being inside.
Tech work can be highly volatile in the business environment. Maybe its different for new tech workers entering the work force, but for a worker owned company, this can mean large losses of revenue for months. I don’t know many tech workers that are willing to take a massive pay cut to continue to stay and commit to a worker owned company if they personally can find better paying work elsewhere.
From the article:
"The playful atmosphere of tech offices flush with investment, enjoying luxe catered lunches to attract programming talent, has been replaced by a looming fear that layoffs are just around the corner "
This boom-and-bust cycle of tech growth and devastation has happened three times during my IT career. Its even more frequent in specific IT niche industries.
How long ago did you get your mortgage? Even 5 years ago the interest rates were rock bottom. Wouldn’t refinancing today double your interest rate?
the transparency of a policy that allows the ICE director to restrict the public release of footage unless “it is in the best interests of the agency”.
Lets see how made up department policy stands up to a FOIA request in front of a federal judge.
Watching Breaking Bad was an amazing experience that I would recommend everyone do once. However, I don’t think I can ever take that full ride again. It just has too many people being so horrible to themselves and each other.
Runner up: The Wire
“You follow drugs, you get drug addicts and drug dealers. But you start to follow the money, and you don’t know where the fuck it’s gonna take you.”
My experience is more of:
“Here’s the quick conversion of units you’re looking for but without having to enable a host of other page require questionable javascript hosted sites as well as wading through a set of cookie challenges that require you to make multiple clicks just so they don’t install tracking cookies on your device so they can see you long after you’ve left their one-visit-page. If you still want to go through, here’s the direct deep link to the page on that site that contains the info you’re searching for so you don’t have to wade through piles of nested menus. I’m sorry I release 2 tons of CO2 giving you this answer, but its either that or expose yourself raw to that sketchy site for that trivial answer you’re looking for.”