Re: young people
By: Tiny to Mro on Tue Nov 04 2025 05:43 am

I just don't have any fight left in me anymore. I just accept that
someone who makes more money then I do says I was wrong.

Meh, point #1 when you are working for a wage is never to care about things more than your boss does.

If your boss does not care whether the office is burning or not, you don't fix it. If that means the firm goes down, so be it.

The reason is that when you try to go beyond the call of duty, you get called out for it, and the problem remains unfixed anyway.

If you are the sort of person who actually cares for his professional trajectory you are much better off working for yourself. Really.


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Hi Arelor,
On <Tue, 10 Nov 25>, you wrote me:

If you are the sort of person who actually cares for his professional trajectory you are much better off working for yourself. Really.

Agreed. I was self employed from age 20-50. I've been with this
company 3.5 years now and it's my first "job" in 30 years.

Currently I'm supporting the household so I can't afford to gamble and
need a regular pay cheque. My wife is finished upgrading her education
and while looking for work it's a bit of a challenge as the results of
her certification exam aren't in yet. Once she's working again and the
three month period has passed I'm going to seriously reconsider my options.


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Tiny wrote to Arelor <=-

If you are the sort of person who actually cares for his professional trajectory you are much better off working for yourself. Really.

Agreed. I was self employed from age 20-50. I've been with this
company 3.5 years now and it's my first "job" in 30 years.

Currently I'm supporting the household so I can't afford to gamble and need a regular pay cheque.

There's a lot to be said for working for yourself in the early days
of your career - when you don't have a family, are renting a small
place... the stakes are lower.

I freelanced from 2000 to 2004, caught the tail end of the dot-com
boom building IT organizations, then was a sysadmin for hire. You learn
a lot about yourself when you work for yourself.

One bit of advice I took away from that time?

"Never tell the client 'No'. Tell them how much 'Yes' costs."









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Hi Poindexter,
On <Wed, 11 Nov 25>, you wrote me:

There's a lot to be said for working for yourself in the early days
of your career - when you don't have a family, are renting a small
place... the stakes are lower.

For sure. I had set myself up to retire and had purchased two taxi plates
with my life savings, and could survive working 2 days a week.

Then the gubment allowed the illegal taxi company uber to operate and that
was that for my savings and retirement. I will now work until I drop dead
and I have $0 in savings, and less then $0 in the bank, in my 50's and
now live like a 20 year old. lol

... Aha! Another "undocumented feature"!


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Re: Re: young people
By: Tiny to Poindexter Fortran on Wed Nov 12 2025 05:15 am

For sure. I had set myself up to retire and had purchased two taxi
plates with my life savings, and could survive working 2 days a
week.

Then the gubment allowed the illegal taxi company uber to operate
and that was that for my savings and retirement. I will now work
until I drop dead and I have $0 in savings, and less then $0 in the

that sucks that your govt and mine alow companies like uber to have different and lesser requirements than taxi drivers. futhermore, none of them have the correct type of insurance. they usually have regular driver ins.
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Hi Mro,
On <Thu, 12 Nov 25>, you wrote me:

that sucks that your govt and mine alow companies like uber to have different and lesser requirements than taxi drivers. futhermore, none
of them have the
correct type of insurance. they usually have regular driver ins.

They don't have to pay what I did, I know that for a fact. When I "sold"
my plates six years ago I was paying $8,000 a year for each taxi for
insurance.

I mean I'm glad to not have to deal with it, but I sure do miss having
money to live. Never thought I'd be this age without a pot to piss in
nor a window to hurl it out of.

... If I was human, I would... Wait a minute! I *AM* human!


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Hello Tiny!

** On Wednesday 12.11.25 - 05:15, Tiny wrote to Poindexter Fortran:

For sure. I had set myself up to retire and had purchased two taxi plates with my life savings, and could survive working 2 days a week.

Then the gubment allowed the illegal taxi company uber to operate and that was that for my savings and retirement.

Well.. you gotta say that the ride-share/hailing is clever,
especially when tied to an app. Taxi companies should have
considered some app approach.

I will now work until I drop dead
and I have $0 in savings, and less then $0 in the bank, in my 50's and
now live like a 20 year old. lol

So.. 2-days /wk vs more-days. That's the main diff. Look at
the positive side.. you will be more active! :D



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Re: young people
By: Ogg to Tiny on Sun Nov 16 2025 08:23 am

For sure. I had set myself up to retire and had purchased two taxi plates with my life savings, and could survive working 2 days a
week.

Then the gubment allowed the illegal taxi company uber to operate
and that was that for my savings and retirement.

Well.. you gotta say that the ride-share/hailing is clever,
especially when tied to an app. Taxi companies should have
considered some app approach.

yeah it's too bad but i see how these apps fill a void. you get picked up quick and it's easy for little drives.

i'm not sure the govt would have lett off of taxi businesses in requirements fees and regulations.
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Re: Re: young people
By: MRO to Tiny on Wed Nov 12 2025 05:52 pm

that sucks that your govt and mine alow companies like uber to have different and lesser requirements than taxi drivers. futhermore, none of them have the correct type of insurance. they usually have regular driver ins.
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The real issue is town halls like creating artificial scarcity regarding transportation. They do this with other services too.

Getting a taxi license from the administration in Spain is not terribly expensive. The problem is they don't issue many, and licenses are transferible, therefore if you want to become a taxi driver you end up havint to buy a license from another driver. As a result you end up having a secondary market of licenses in which they reach absurd prices.

There is no reason for right-to-have-a-job licenses being so expensive you need to work for years to pay them. For once I am glad the business scheme is getting busted.

It is the same with tobacco expenditure licenses and the like. A friend of mine wanted to open a tobacco expenditure point and around that year the administration issued a single license for the province. It is widely known the people who ended up snatching the license paid an equivalent of 3000 EUR in a bribe and had to let the licensor fuck her girlfriend for a night in order to get the license granted.

My friend became a tobacco smuggler. Not surprising, I guess. When the administration gets Sovietic, corruption is not the problem, but the solution.


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Re: young people
By: Ogg to Tiny on Sun Nov 16 2025 08:23:00

Then the gubment allowed the illegal taxi company uber to operate and th > T> was that for my savings and retirement.

Well.. you gotta say that the ride-share/hailing is clever,
especially when tied to an app. Taxi companies should have
considered some app approach.

From this conversation, I am guessing that one cannot make near the same amountof $$$ going from being a taxi driver to an uber driver?
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Re: young people
By: Dumas Walker to Ogg on Mon Nov 17 2025 08:54 am

Re: young people
By: Ogg to Tiny on Sun Nov 16 2025 08:23:00

Then the gubment allowed the illegal taxi company uber to operate
and th > T> was that for my savings and retirement.

Well.. you gotta say that the ride-share/hailing is clever,
especially when tied to an app. Taxi companies should have
considered some app approach.

From this conversation, I am guessing that one cannot make near the
same amountof $$$ going from being a taxi driver to an uber driver?

There's a lot of factors and uber takes a big cut.
they fuck the customer side and the driver side.
i heard that if your phone battery is low the price can be higher. Not sure if that's true (all the time).

i've used uber and lyft as a customer and last time i paid a ton just to go
a few miles. a guy from out of state had to come because my area sucks and has no drivers.
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Hi Dumas,
In a message to Ogg you wrote:

From this conversation, I am guessing that one cannot make near the
same amountof $$$ going from being a taxi driver to an uber driver?

Nowhere close. Driving a taxi was a job you could support your family
on. The number of cars on the road were regulated. Every tom, dick and
moron can drive for uber. You have the same 200 people wanting a ride,
and you have 350 ubers all wanting to transport the same 200 people.

I wasn't rich when I drove a cab, but I my bills were paid, I had
no debt and I had savings. I'm still in transportation but another
field of it now, and most of our drivers have either worked an uber
or still do part time, all are broke.

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Re: young people
By: Tiny to Dumas Walker on Tue Nov 18 2025 05:19 am

the same 200 people.

I wasn't rich when I drove a cab, but I my bills were paid, I had no
debt and I had savings. I'm still in transportation but another
field of it now, and most of our drivers have either worked an uber
or still do part time, all are broke.

so you have to agree that taxi cabs are a bit old school and behind on the times.

what do you think should have done besides just just trying to force ride sharing out?

like dropping prices, having an app where they can hail cabs easily or pay
or themselves and others via the app?

I think eventually uber, lyft, doordash will be regulated because it's only a win situation for the company.
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From this conversation, I am guessing that one cannot make near the
same amountof $$$ going from being a taxi driver to an uber driver?

Nowhere close. Driving a taxi was a job you could support your family
on. The number of cars on the road were regulated. Every tom, dick and moron can drive for uber. You have the same 200 people wanting a ride,
and you have 350 ubers all wanting to transport the same 200 people.

Thanks, I didn't know. You would think that it would be to uber's
advantage to cap the number of drivers it allows in an area to match an
area's demand but I guess not.


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Re: young people
By: Dumas Walker to TINY on Tue Nov 18 2025 09:54 am

Thanks, I didn't know. You would think that it would be to uber's
advantage to cap the number of drivers it allows in an area to match
an area's demand but I guess not.

why do you think they would do a cap? it's not skin off their nose if they have too many. and if it's oversaturated it's to uber's advantage.

when i did DD they would mark an area as being 'hot' early in the morning. this is hours before any restaurant is open. they wanted to have people available.
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