I thought your latest piece on Medium was strong. I briefly tried to acquire the app to comment, but at 63 my patience meter runs out quickly.
I thought it would bring in some good commentary. Alas, it was not to be. As you have said it appears the iPhone has circled the wagons on just about every aspect of life.
Thanks. I thought it was good too, but Medium audiences don't seem to appreciate stuff that's broad in scope. I can write about housing, climate, or Israel and get lots of likes, but the moment I suggest society eats too much, drives too much, or consumes/believes in too much propaganda media, it gets silent. I started this Substack to connect the dots--e.g. how obesity and oversized homes and cars are symptoms of the same malady, but folks have a hard time internalizing that since it's so personally confronting.
I’m on the road a lot for work. I frequent fast food joints and typically will go in to eat and check email. First…these places are mostly empty in today’s environment. Second…the delivery driver gig is much larger than I believe most people suspect.
Personally I’m not going to spend extra dough to have someone I don’t know bring me cold food. I can’t imagine bringing food to customers is a solid career. I haven’t thought through the gig worker model, but it looks unappealing from my table at McDonald’s.
I'm technically impoverished at the moment, though my highfalutin background makes me loathe to call myself poor. That said, I know many poor people for whom gig work is their main source of income. The gigs often pay decent--let's say $20-40/hour. But there's zero security, and often the giggers are spending a lot of their earnings on automotive costs (many of the gigs are delivery jobs), which, combined with rising costs of living, keep them in a state of perpetual hustling and gigging. The upshot for the Amazons, Postmates, Ubers, etc. is that because these gig workers aren't employees, there's no one to fire when a robot is invented to replace them.
I thought your latest piece on Medium was strong. I briefly tried to acquire the app to comment, but at 63 my patience meter runs out quickly.
I thought it would bring in some good commentary. Alas, it was not to be. As you have said it appears the iPhone has circled the wagons on just about every aspect of life.
Thanks. I thought it was good too, but Medium audiences don't seem to appreciate stuff that's broad in scope. I can write about housing, climate, or Israel and get lots of likes, but the moment I suggest society eats too much, drives too much, or consumes/believes in too much propaganda media, it gets silent. I started this Substack to connect the dots--e.g. how obesity and oversized homes and cars are symptoms of the same malady, but folks have a hard time internalizing that since it's so personally confronting.
I’m on the road a lot for work. I frequent fast food joints and typically will go in to eat and check email. First…these places are mostly empty in today’s environment. Second…the delivery driver gig is much larger than I believe most people suspect.
Personally I’m not going to spend extra dough to have someone I don’t know bring me cold food. I can’t imagine bringing food to customers is a solid career. I haven’t thought through the gig worker model, but it looks unappealing from my table at McDonald’s.
I'm technically impoverished at the moment, though my highfalutin background makes me loathe to call myself poor. That said, I know many poor people for whom gig work is their main source of income. The gigs often pay decent--let's say $20-40/hour. But there's zero security, and often the giggers are spending a lot of their earnings on automotive costs (many of the gigs are delivery jobs), which, combined with rising costs of living, keep them in a state of perpetual hustling and gigging. The upshot for the Amazons, Postmates, Ubers, etc. is that because these gig workers aren't employees, there's no one to fire when a robot is invented to replace them.