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    3 days ago

    just tell me what’s wrong so I can improve further applications

    Generally, they are terrified of giving more feedback than absolutely necessary. They might incur an accusation of unfair hiring practices. Similar story on ‘references’, confirm only employment dates, never provide a qualitative assessment, good or bad.



  • Broadly, you have a point. However with Tesla Musk has been pretty consistent that they would be directly doing it and they have the Tesla app managing the rides.

    Their strategy has been all in one, they make the cars, they own the chargers, and they don’t really partner with anyone in any significant way.

    While it does happen that companies end up partnering and competing at the same time, it’s relatively less likely. So for Tesla it is extra strange to be pitching being a supplier for other autonomous taxis while simultaneously being in the market.

    So yeah, generally it is a poor argument, but in the context of Tesla, it is at least a bit out of character for them.








  • I said unique, old people need a lot of health care, generally way more than a kid. Most kids after birth just have routine checkups and not much else. Infants might get a bit more doctor visits because the parents don’t know if they should worry or not because the infant can’t speak, but generally even those amount to nothing.

    Babies more universally need diapers than old folks, and do eat more than an older person, but health care is absolutely bigger for elderly.



  • Even at constant population or even mildly declining, you would expect the young to outnumber the old by a bit. Given people die on the way to getting old and die whole being old more than the young die.

    They may be even fewer than when the currently old folks when they were young but still be expected to outnumber the old



  • Sure, but situations evolve that change the meaning.

    15 years ago, being an independent contractor was relatively rare and pretty deliberate. Now that’s just being registered with Uber, Lyft, Doordash. So lots of people stop becoming “unemployed” and become “independent contractors” due to what is essentially a cultural shift. Being an “employed” independent contractor is trivial now, but says nothing about income prospects.

    The side job scenario certainly isn’t new, so your point is taken there, that number of jobs “created” always could have been either good or bad without context.


  • Well not lying, but not what everyone thinks it is.

    One person picks up a side job after getting hours cut at his work? That’s a new job created, even if that person makes less than they used to.

    A guy gets laid off but registers with a gig app to try to pick up some driving or delivery tasks with spotty income prospects? That person is not “unemployed”.

    You aren’t recognized as looking for work despite having no job? You don’t count as unemployed either.

    The “underemployed” is probably better to get an idea.