[Keith_McClary]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AgentR11', 'W')hat difference does it make whether I hand a clerk a piece of paper that only has value because the digital systems of the United States say it has value; or if I stick a piece of plastic and silicon in a reader, that moves bits that only have value because the digital systems of the United States say it has value. There's nothing magic or sacred about that scrap of paper; neither God nor Nature have imbued it with any value at all; its simply a marker, a temporary placeholder for moving bits from one account to another account. Even in the catastrophic sense, I can get my "cash" bits into equities faster than you can get your paper place markers into gold or silver, and much much faster than you can get them into any wider assortment of liquid assets that preserve purchasing power.

[Keith_McClary]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('SeaGypsy', 'U')ber is a joke designed to sucker mathematical dunces into working for free. There is no real profit in driving for uber. For example the tax office here has ruled the cost of running a private car is 78 cents per km. When my employer pays me $780 to drive 1000 km in a week, the tax office doesn't touch it. Uber charges $1.15 km, from which- 10% gst, 20% uber, income tax, costs, out & back etc. Just a big scam really.

[ennui2]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AgentR11', '
')completely remove the physical possibility.

[SeaGypsy]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Keith_McClary', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('SeaGypsy', 'U')ber is a joke designed to sucker mathematical dunces into working for free. There is no real profit in driving for uber. For example the tax office here has ruled the cost of running a private car is 78 cents per km. When my employer pays me $780 to drive 1000 km in a week, the tax office doesn't touch it. Uber charges $1.15 km, from which- 10% gst, 20% uber, income tax, costs, out & back etc. Just a big scam really.

[MD]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('SeaGypsy', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Keith_McClary', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('SeaGypsy', 'U')ber is a joke designed to sucker mathematical dunces into working for free. There is no real profit in driving for uber. For example the tax office here has ruled the cost of running a private car is 78 cents per km. When my employer pays me $780 to drive 1000 km in a week, the tax office doesn't touch it. Uber charges $1.15 km, from which- 10% gst, 20% uber, income tax, costs, out & back etc. Just a big scam really.

[SeaGypsy]

Someone back thread suggested uber be taken as an important manifestation of emerging totalitarianism eventually forcing the end of private transport blah blah blah like coming off an acid trip. Uber is a pyramid scheme reliant on an endless supply of suckers. Almost nobody does it more than two years, by which time they have destroyed a new or near new vehicle (or lost 70+% on one) & earned less than minimum doing so.

[AgentR11]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ennui2', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AgentR11', 'c')ompletely remove the physical possibility.

[ennui2]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AgentR11', '
')Oligarchs don't live in "gated communities". Oligarchs have security and drivers and deep offsets from public access.

[AgentR11]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ennui2', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AgentR11', 'O')ligarchs don't live in "gated communities". Oligarchs have security and drivers and deep offsets from public access.