The thing here though is the wage Apple thought they were paying was a good-ish wage, its lack of labor protection that allows the contractor to corruptly reduce it.
i'd go further and say humans do not exist without technology. From fire to stone tools the relationship between human mind and technology as object and social construct is what humans are to the same degree as termites are their mounds.
I think you are woefully ill informed in how even in the most abundant ecosystem humans use technology. Look up the fish traps in the pacific north west of the us. Or the use of fire to flush game in paleolithic time. Just because it's not a shiny iphone does not mean that ecological management is not a sophisticated technology that has been developed concurrently with human evolution.
right every charger would be like a high voltage substation, of course people have complained about the safety potential of every new innovation and for the most part they're tamed. Seems likely that people dying from stupid drivers will far exceed deaths from the charging infrastructure even of hydrogen or this very high current.
Probably the larger concern (or at least as large) would be that the current electrical grid couldn't handle that kind of load if a significant number of people started driving these quick charge electric cars which require these large currents. Likely we'd need to slow down the charging anyway to accommodate the limitations of the power grid.
I have been following Tesla for many years and have heard of lots of story about people getting hurt with Tesla. I have never heard of such a case during everyday operations of a supercharger.
Likely somewhere somebody has died during installation of these stations but I have never heard of it.
My guess would be the death rate are about as high as installing any electrical system with high current.
Yeah, I did a quick Google for supercharger electrical accidents, and I can’t really find any: I suspect you’re more likely to see a gas station fire than an accident at a fast charger.
there are around 200 times more gas stations currently than fast chargers so absolutely. The question that matters is if you replaced all of those with fast chargers would the accidents at fast chargers be worse than gas station accidents. I am not saying that is not the case and also like gas stations they will get safer over time.
this is such an important point. A corollary that those who control the process in many ways can control or at least massage the outcome (cf. mitch mcconnell)
The normal way to change the process is by changing the law. It's normally used to improve the process when the process produces too many bad outcomes.
Of course, making law also requires a process, which we should not expect to be perfect. And that process has its own process for being changed, and so on.
Would you run a startup this way? Of course not. But stable, transparent laws are a feature, not a bug, when it comes to things like banking.
this is completely missing the point, people don't take chronic or slow-developing issues to the ER so they get worse and have catastrophic consequences resulting in both worse health outcomes and more expense because by the time they do come to ER it's a more serious intervention = $$$$
I addressed that in a different comment (I think we submitted comments at roughly the same time).
I completely agree that preventative healthcare is lacking, partly due to the system and partly due to culture. If the OP had originally said "preventative healthcare" I wouldn't have much to disagree on, but they used a blanket statement implying only the wealthy have access to healthcare in general.
The US also gives free preventative healthcare to many subsets of the population
except we've had unambiguously massive economic growth the unending poverty (that I'd remind you has always been worse historically it's just below the poor back then were slaves or indentured servants) is a policy consequence of increasing the share of income paid to the wealthiest (by reducing their taxes and globalization undermining labor power).
Right, some people might want to point to a single monetary policy or event but this is a sustained trend of piling on policy after policy. This looks like a "new" ideology showed up and drove policy decisions in a different direction.
