I guess they just aren't sophisticated enough to do that... But I guess they must have AI that can identify kids in videos accurately (even 17 1/2 year olds).

I honestly don't believe that this headline is true, but if it is... Good opportunity for a YT competitor to spring up.

So did many of us. People are not supposed to have to support a family as a primary earner on minimum wage and they never were. According to the 2013 Bureau of Labor Statistics, full time minimum wage earners earn over the poverty line by more than $3,000 per year. Two minimum wage earners can support a family of four and live above the poverty line. Avoiding poverty is all about choices.

>"At the same time, if 6-8 hours a day of Instacart deliveries isn't enough to provide you with an apartment, tuition money and food & entertainment for a wife and two children, then it's a service that shouldn't exist and it is only propped up by investor cash."

>"Because that is what minimum wage was originally meant to provide for an individual in America, before nearly a century of propaganda and misdirection convinced people like you that someone on minimum wage is lazy and doesn't deserve enough money to eat healthily, rent a decent apartment and have enough cash for some entertainment, and generally live better than someone in a third-world country, much less afford something like an annual vacation or car payments."

You have your facts quite wrong about the minimum wage and what it was originally meant to provide. The minimum wage was first enacted in 1938 by FDR. It paid a meager 25 cents per hour (this is $4 today when adjusted for inflation). So it has become substantially more generous as time has gone on. This is the opposite of your claim.

People in third-world countries earn less than a dollar a day. I'm sure they would love to earn even the 25 cents per hour that the original minimum wage paid.

Everyone I know that has been stuck in minimum wage jobs have definitely been lazy or made very poor choices (like stealing from their employer ETC.) in fact, only 3% of people above age 25 in the US make only the minimum wage.

Get the actual facts before making biased and factually incorrect claims (and cite sources when doing so). It really hurts your credibility to just make things up and try to sound like an expert so maybe no one will call you on it and you will appear to make a valid point.

Source: https://bebusinessed.com/history/history-of-minimum-wage/

You place yourself in a weak position philosophically and argumentatively simply going for the old dumb bully method of personal attacks, character assassination, shouting someone down, insults ETC.

Is that really the best you can do? I pointed out inaccurate information and information gaps in this story. This claim reeks heavily and obviously of major bias. I wouldn't be surprised in an Instacart competitor actually is behind this. It's sad that others in this thread didn't already do the same. The group think and blind social justice here is really sad. There are many people here far smarter than I, yet they cannot see when such a weak and slanderous smear attempt is made?

If you want to change the labor laws to make tips and wage separate then go ahead. But just know that every restaurant and service company in states that allow this do it. If a certain business doesn't, they will have a hard time competing against the company across the street who does.

This 80 cents an hour case is so factually incorrect and lacking specifics that you and others should frankly be embarrassed to be making judgments based on it.

I am not sure why delivering 6 bags of groceries took over an hour in this case. It is entirely possible however that they made several other deliveries in between Wegmans and this location (making a $10 minimum for each). It is possible that this person actually made $50+ during this 69 minutes.

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So is not a typical scenario. I could put together an article just as misleading showing that Insticart pays a mint...

I don't like when people try to mislead me. Perhaps the fact that the tip is not going directly to the delivery person is offending some of your sensibilities. This is quite legal. Many states have done this for the past 80 years. I don't know how residents of states that practice this are surprised. All restaurants and other service industry locations you frequent do the same.

Being a food delivery person, a restaurant server or for that matter a McDonald's employee is not a skilled labor position and has never been a job someone should aspire to feed a family off of. We have people busting their butts, putting themselves through college, working their way up the ladder. We have 50k skilled labor jobs vacant in this country that pay a good wage and even offer training. People used to move across the country for these jobs. They used to leave their grandma's basement and go make something of themselves. Now we just have them making a bunch of noise over McDonald's not paying a Living Wage. Grow up. This world should not reward the lazy, it results in ever increasing mediocrity.

https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/04/25/605092520/high-pa...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kathycaprino/2018/08/30/dirties...

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/05/the-us-labor-shortage-is-rea...

https://www.google.com/search?q=the+us+has+vacant+skilled+la...

Really? Why didn't they use hidden cameras and microphones then?

Do we not realize what hypocrites we are? We are funding the very actions and ideals that we vehemently oppose. All of us Silicon Valley residents who are so supportive of inclusion, acceptance and rights... Many of us work for the very companies that sponsor the exact opposite values on over a billion people. And we claim that we aren't tribal nationalists? What are we then? Why are our strong moral convictions so geographically limited?

We should ask ourselves and anyone around us who claims to believe in a cause for freedom, rights and equality to please explain why our beliefs don't go beyond the boundaries of the United States (or other western countries). Is it fake virtue? Is it blind apathy created by materialism and greed? It is nationalism, stateism, racism ETC? What is it? Shouldn't there be stories about things like this in the liberal media on a daily bases. Liberal ideas don't apply to China apparently. I dare to think how China may be different today if for the last 18 months, the Mainstream media covered stories like this one in place of all the millions of largely fluff partition anti Trump ones. My opinion is that at the very least least a large amount of pressure would have been put on China to address at least some of this trend. Perhaps our country country would have found some common ground and actually moved toward a center on a least something. All the while helping millions of Chinese citizens at the same time.

How is ignoring this situation and actually sponsoring it financially ok with the average American citizen (regardless of party affiliation)?

I work in the banking industry where security IS regulated (by the FDIC). We have government auditors come and review our technology once a year. These guys don't know what the hell they are doing. We have had blatant security problems (now addressed) that they couldn't see right in front of their nose. Community banks have terrible security. Larger ones are better, but still rife with problems.

I fail to see how government regulation and intervention has helped in my industry, or how it would help in any. If by regulations, you mean that we would get fined if some data got compromised, that already happens through negligence lawsuits. It is not an effective motivator though.

In my experience, the threat/worry of bad publicity is actually the best motivator in a company getting their security up to par.