Yeah, I think it's a cost thing. It's probably cheaper to fly a drone than pay USPS. I just don't like the idea of a million little cameras flying around.
Do you know any Amazon delivery drivers? Claiming that they make enough to eat is a stretch. What should happen is these drones should be aggressively taxed with the revenue going toward UBI. All automation jobs should be taxed to the point where it's a preference whether to have a machine or human and if they hire machines, then they should be subsidizing all the people that those machines replace.
I think the same, what I mean is that the people who do these horrible jobs is because they don't have any choice. If the government do something like you said it would be different but before that happens a lot of people could finish on the streets.
They are on the streets now. A lot of the gig workers in major cities are living in their cars. If you're in LA, SF, or Seattle, there is a pretty good chance your delivery driver will sleep in their car.
They say your rent should be 30% of your gross earnings. I don't know any gig jobs that pay $72,000 a year to afford rent in these cities. If you worked 2 full time jobs, 80 hours a week, making Seattle minimum wage, you're still short $12k a year.
East coast cities are mostly block apartment buildings where west coast is still mostly single family dwellings. That's a big reason rent is so out of control.
California is a wasteland and Seattle wants nothing more than to copy whatever LA is doing. We already have huge homeless encampments and a toothless police force.
The biggest problem on the west coast is single family dwelling zones for construction. The homeowners fight to prevent zoning changes that would allow high density housing to be built. West coast cities can't sprawl like Texas because they are constrained by the geography. What they need is high density housing to meet the demand for housing, like the east coast has done. Instead we get nimby (not in my back yard) assholes that block any change because their house won't continue to skyrocket in value.
You either already have housing, are rich, or are watching from a rental.
In my country (Italy) buying a house is impossible without help of your family or being one of the few fortunate who earn a lot. But, you can rent and have a decent life if you don't care to live in a small city with only the minimum salary (1000€). Now in Milan a room cost 1000 so if you don't earn a shit load of money forget to have a normal life.
Edit: as far as I know people just move out from the cities if they can't afford it. I haven't heard of people living in cars at least not in amounts to be noticeable.
The main explanation is that it must be in EU that people are able to make a living where they work. The reason we have so many working homeless is there is a demand for the work but no housing anywhere close to affordable. The affluent areas want delivery of everything and they don't want to drive, but the people providing the services can't afford to live in a practical range of the work available.
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