I've never had a call with a mechanic that couldn't be replaced with an estimate to do unexpected work.

And I've never had a mechanic be able to send me a picture. "Your CV Boot is cracked, do you want me to replace it?" "What do you mean cracked? Is it torn completely through or is the rubber starting to show cracks" "Well, you know like little cracks" "I don't know, can you send me a picture?" "What? How?"

Isn't that kind of the whole point of this Apple Watch/iPhone integration? You don't have to sit down and text back and forth for 20 minutes, you can stay under the car, take a picture, send it to the customer text "Hey, look at this oil leaking around the water pump, $250 to replace it, here's a quote, reply back with YES, NO, or CALLME".

I don't want you to call me -- when my car is done, send me a txt message.

If something comes up while you're working on the car and it needs more work, send me a link to a new estimate, optionally along with pictures documenting what needs to be done.

I don't want you to call me to say my left phalange needs a new seal and it'll be $700 to fix it -- show me a photo of exactly what's broken and an itemized bill for what it will take to fix it. Then I can easily look it up online and find out that my model car doesn't even *have* a phalange or that it's a simple repair that I can do myself for $25.

And whatever you do, don't give me a followup call, send me an email survey if you must, but don't call me while I'm trying to sleep because I was up late working the night before.

I have a sign posted at my door asking drivers to leave packages in the bin I hid behind the bushes next to the door so the packages aren't easily visible from the street. About 25% do it -- UPS is the best at compliance.

I don't have a sign requesting a dance, but I'd expect far fewer drivers to comply.

Who? Bezos? You were fine with him having a $200B net worth, but the minute it hits your pocketbook then it's too much? "I don't like paying more money" isn't much of a principle.

employers would surely pay workers more so they don't starve

No, employees would simply not accept a job, which does not pay them enough to survive.

So given the choice between taking a job which doesn't pay them enough to live on, and having no job and nothing at all to live on (no "foodstamps and other handouts", right?), you think employees would choose to sit on the street and die?

I'll substantiate my claims when you tell me what choice people have when presented with a choice between a job that pays too little, and no job at all with no social benefits to survive on. I don't see how what you're proposing is any less than slavery by forcing work through coercion "You can either take this job or you and your family will starve".

What principle is this? "We don't believe in paying the cost of services"?

I can see not using Amazon because of their poor working conditions, but waiting until they raise rates to cancel your membership doesn't really demonstrate your support for workers.

That would be a good plan if the alternative was "without welfare subsidies, employers would surely pay workers more so they don't starve", but in reality, the pay would stay the same, but workers would starve.

I know, it sucks that children can't be exploited as cheap labor, what kind of world is this when even *children* have to be paid reasonable wages, and even have extra concessions due to their age.

The company itself didn't lose anything. Zuckerberg lost some paper money, but not enough to even come close to changing his lifestyle.

The real losers are employers that are counting on stock options or RSU's as part of their income -- employee retention is going to be much harder, especially if the stock continues to slide.

Exactly, I'm not sure that a billionaire CEO's "life experience" who works only because he wants to is even tangentially related to the life experience of ordinary workers that have no choice but to work.

Well yeah, I think that Documentary from Disney proved that.

I, for one, am shocked that a rodent is worse than meteorologists at predicting future weather, and its "prediction" is no better than an uninformed guess! Next thing you know, they'll tell me to stop taking medical advice from my pet rat.

I don't need fast delivery, I don't care if they take 2 days to deliver my order, as long as they have accurate inventory and the products I ordered are actually available. Amazon Fresh is the closest to this, much better than Safeway, last time I ordered from Safeway, half the products were unavailable or substituted (sometimes with a substitute that doesn't make sense)

Sure, as long as you can ensure it's not going to let gasoline or oil leak into the ground (improper disposal of those fluids is a crime in many areas) or cause a fire.

But you can't lift it 2000 feet in the air and then cut it loose without knowing where it's going to land or if it's going to land on some people or damage property.

And if you do crash your airplane for any reason, you're not allowed to go pick up the pieces before letting the FAA/NTSB investigate.

You're describing the value of Global Entry, I'm talking about the value of the in-person interview.