Yeah there was a whole list of things and the fine for not cleaning the items. So you had to make sure you got it super clean or you would get all the fines.
Of which amounted to something close to $1000.
I spent 2 days cleaning it when I moved out to make sure I didn’t get any of the fines.
You can basically get black listed as a renter if you don’t clean well.
Hell ya!
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Is anyone really accepting it?
I sure ain’t.
Aka wage theft
I moved to Chicago a few years. I go to rent an apartment. It has a “move-in” fee.
I’m like what’s that.
Oh it’s $500 that you don’t get back.
I say. What about the deposit? They say. Oh yeah we don’t require that. Isn’t that great ,?
I’m like. So move in fee is my deposit but it’s just guaranteed I won’t get it back.
Them: well it’s different. It’s a move in fee. We don’t require a deposit but if you don’t clean out the apartment to this list of specifications, we will charge you per item you miss.
Example. Refrigerator not cleaned :$150 Floors not clean : $200
Etc.
So I was super unhappy about this and complained to anyone who would listen. To which my new Chicago neighbors and friends were like “that’s how it’s always been here,”
Bro. Y’all getting fucked. Hard. Non refundable deposit where you still have to clean out the old apartment.
Wtf. Should be illegal.
There are way more misogynist women out there than you would think.
Especially from older generations.
I’m not saying people who do gig work are at fault here or should feel bad about doing gig work. I think you have misunderstood
I’m saying the business model of gig work is predatory towards its employees and its customers.
And that people are forced into gig work because better paying practical jobs are being phased out. They are manipulated into believing it’s a great option when it’s not. It’s just the only option.
When you consider the additional cost and risk that gig workers take on, you surely see how these companies are predatory.
They don’t exist to help people get work. They aren’t there to help you out. They exist to make you dependent on them so they can profit.
Acknowledging this doesn’t mean you are a fool for doing gig work. Acknowledging it means you are aware of how you have been manipulated, even if you realize you don’t really have alternative options.
Most of us work for shitty companies. Some are worse than others. We all have bills to pay. We are all trapped in the system. But that’s no excuse to ignore what’s going on even if we don’t have alternative options and have to stay with these companies.
You don’t owe them anything. Certainly you don’t have to talk them up. They aren’t there to help you out. They lobby to pay you the least $ and screw you over as much as possible.
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Many people/news outlets present genetic data as “effects” or as percentage of a trait.
Like if someone scored 80% on a trait, people say genes determined 30% of that score.
Which is incorrect. But this interpretation is pushed all the time. I see it a lot with intelligence IQ score. Yes intelligence is genetic but only 30% of variability is predicted by genetics.
And if you think about it. That’s only for people with an IQ of 70 to 130 (1 standard deviation).
For the really smart people and the really dumb people, genetics has a lower ability to predict variance.
The reason genes aren’t as predictive as you would think they would be , is just like my example of height.
If the environment doesn’t allow for potential to be fulfilled, it won’t be.
Human development has what’s called “sensitive periods” . Where if some function isn’t learned by that age, it likely will never be mastered. Because the brain does a lot of pruning at young age. If you aren’t using it, you lose it. This is why learning a second language is hard as an adult and easy as a child.
So taking that into account. You can see how limited genetics are for determining an outcome of a random child.
It certainly has an impact. But it is limited by the environment.
How many amazing geniuses are born every day in 3rd world countries that have the potential to solve big world problems who will never reach that level because the stimulation they need to reach that potential is unavailable to them?
I think you are missing my point.
Servants with zero benefits using their own “tools” they pay for (like a car), are different from labor jobs with benefits and a living wage. Not that there are many of those so called benefits for minimum wage workers either.
I mean it all sucks under capitalism. But gig work is ramping up end stage capitalism. It takes more, and takes it more aggressively from the working class.
Gig work is exasperating the inequality that already existed. It’s robbing and exploiting people far more aggressively than seen before.
I think people don’t realize how harmful these systems are.
Capitalism crash is inevitable. Through a few possible routes. But the suffering it will inflict and how widespread can be curtailed by stopping these predatory practices.
Supply and demand. Unemployment benefits were extended. People didn’t have to work. To attract employees they had to increase wages. But they fixed that by increases in product cost that far exceeds wage increases.
Plus rent went up for everyone.
The one over by the airport ?
Yeah I definitely missed that part. Also pretty sure they can glide. ? Does that count. ?
I’m not against delivering services. Just gig jobs.
Lots of people really need these. Like disabled people and the elderly.
But those two groups are least able to afford it.
Psychopathy is a combination of genetics and environmental factors. Genetics does not cause this condition. You can have the genes associated with higher prevalence but that does not mean you will have it.
This is why eugenics for behavioral or personality factors is irrelevant.
Also these are not necessarily hereditary but likely are common mutations that will persist in the gene pool regardless if current people with said gene are sterilized.
Genetic research, not to sound pretentious, is largely misunderstood.
When a study says genetics are 30%. It means genetics account for 30% of the variance.
The variance is not “effect”. Or how much a gene contributed to the trait.
It’s a bit more complicated. But to make a simple example.
Let’s think of height.
Let’s say someone has a gene(s) for being tall.
But the person grew up malnourished. It doesnt matter, the kid won’t be tall. But will the kid be taller than other malnourished kids with out the gene. ? Probably. But it’s hard to say by how much.
Will the kid be taller than other kids that werent malnourished.
Maybe. Maybe not.
If extreme malnourished, the answer is no.
Ultimately the environment determines how much effect a gene(s) can determine a trait.
That’s why you can’t measure a general effect % from a gene(s).
Instead we measure how much variation in a group of people with a given trait is predicted by a gene.
“The wiggle room”. A gene is best thought of as the limits of a trait. Each extreme.
When it’s in optimal environment to be expressed and when it’s in the most restricted environment to be expressed.
Even in average environments, genetics still usually doesn’t account for more that 30-40% of the variance for people who score within 1 standard deviation of the mean/average of a trait. And that number declines the farther you get from the mean.
And also most genetics don’t score that high. Very few are as high as 30%.
Maybe the extra weight would strain his heart…,… What a shame that would be.
You ever seen an ostrich?
Bro they are bigger than humans.
The system creates these bad people.
You have to stop the cause.
It’s not genetics.
Just look at Vivian Musk. Nothing like her father.
I’ve also had some bad experiences with taxi services. So I totally get that. It’s just too bad that instead of improving their service and fees, that they just got replaced with gig work .
I’ve always heard it said that you can’t really be an ethical consumer in capitalism.
We often don’t have ethical alternatives.
Bankrupted casinos. You didn’t think he could bankrupt a country ?