_vrmm's comments

I love seeing this in USA. Cooperatives are great, power to the workers.

Awful idea of a company we don't need as a society. If you want to connect with your neighbours go talk to them, go and plan something for the street/neighbourhood, participate in local festivities, buy in local stores. Human contact is what we need, no virtual substitutes. If there's an issue, solve it in person, speaking... Not to talk about tracking and privacy concerns.

Another one of those businesses that survive by worker slavery. Shameful, they all should go bankrupt.

Also, tips in a lot of jobs in USA are now basic for a job to be sustainable, incredible. Maybe 'Tip' is no longer the appropriate word for that.

How are they allowed to pay such a misery?

Not having an app on your smartphone does not outweight the bad sides to me. In Spain tho, mytaxi came before Uber.

I know this opinion is not popular but I'm so happy everytime I see bad news for Uber and all these companies that only exist thanks to basically exploiting THEIR workers.

Private transporting is not sustainable and it is not something that has to be affordable for everyone, even less by lowering workers wages or playing with the tariffs by demand. Taxi regulations gives us passengers safety and fair prices. There are taxi apps that work exactly like Uber's like 'Free-now' where you can see your trip, its aproximate cost, the driver's rating...

We have to promote governments that support affordable and good quality public transport, even though I love driving alone in my car.

I hope Deliveroo, Glovo and other companies are also punished for their labour rights abuses. Make sure your delivery guy is payed fairly or either go to the restaurant yourself.

So many years of labour rights fights being attacked by these startups that do not invent anything but base their business model on lower wages.

Are you kidding me? The connection between madrid and barcelona came after madrid and sevilla (very logical in an economical sense). The highways are payed by us (by tolls) thanks to president Pujol and his friends (irony). Only tolls in rich regions. Our trains (renfe) lack a total need of investment for years. Catalunya gives more money to the rest of Spain than it receives, because it’s one of the economic motors of Spain. We are self sufficient.

Yes I see the problem as you point out, we pay too many things, Spain cannot afford losing us. That’s the only reason you want to keep us, economic matters. At least talk about other reasons to keep us united, not just money. It’s not just about money! It’s culture, it’s many years of oppresion, of not letting a nation decide it’s laws... like the ‘estatut’. it’s not reconizing dictatorships that have hurt so much Catalan culture... a lot of people don’t feel any attachment to Spain, we do not share the government attitude, culture, language... Spain has to learn it’s a multicultural country, Spanish is not the only language...

Everything now fits as ‘terrorism’ thanks to some changes in the law. Awful. And accusing Tsunami Democràtic of criminal organization is tremendous. The Spanish Government has lost its mind. (Ah! Elections coming up in less than two weeks)

Capitalism always makes us focus on productivity. Even more in this startup world ycombinator is part of.

Only shops (not all, mostly small) close at lunch. Office hours are different. I think this is going to change in the years to come.

Screw productivity, think about your health. Your flawed thought process went to either eating a bad but fast meal or a heavy calorie lunch for 2 hours?

First, nobody 'wastes' 2 hours, just 30-45min in a regular lunch. Second, a healhty lunch means, adequate calories and nutrients. And that does not mean it will kill your productivity.

As a Spaniard, I'm very offended by your opinion. Also, I would like to know what your ancestors ate before all these ultraprocessed food existed, pretty sure it was more nutritious. Also, pretty sure they invested more than 10 minutes.

Last year, my ex bought me some tickets for a concert as a present, and she bought them in Viagogo thinking it was the official place at almost double the price. Tickets were not sold out on the official webpage. They design their webpage trying to hide the fact they are resellers. Awful, I hope they fail miserably.