>PhoneAgent is also Bluetooth-linked to a fitness bracelet worn by the employee

This article leaves a ton of questions unanswered.

Is the app voluntary, or a condition of being employed?

How exactly are you going to get your employees to wear the bracelet, even when they are not at work?

Are the employees aware of how this data is being used prior to allowing the app to be installed on their phones or wearing the tracker? Sorry, "fitness tracker"?

What is the employee's incentive or reward here?

What company is either running this experiment or forcing it on their employees?

etc. etc. etc....

Worth noting though, GM, Hostess etc... made products that they sold to resellers. In the reseller industry the big guys, are just getting too big. Regardless of whether they went bankrupt due to severances, or bain capital loading debt on them... Toys R us rising from the ashes would be almost as supprising to me as if blockbuster could, at the end of the day they basically they want to start up, in an industry that's already dominated by the big players.

They mention that boomers are the most satisfied, millennials the least, and gen-XY in the middle.

College was way cheaper in the past, and degrees were less common, so the relative payoff was higher.

I am a boomer. Engineering degree. No debt (thank you GI Bill). No regrets.

No where did I imply that. Taking some personal responsibility like when you borrow money having some reasonable plan to be able to pay it back is the right thing. Setting yourself up for your own success is the right thing. The ones who party blindly until the bill comes due should not be given a free pass at the expense of the ones who planned ahead and worked on their own success.

Yours is the same mindset where if you have enough money left over to save, you should be giving it to someone who can't. Any fool can spend beyond their means and say they need more money. Deciding to live below your means for some future goal (early retirement, decades of leisure and travel, private school for your kids, etc) should not be punished by being told you don't need the money so go help the less fortunate with it. But that's exactly what you're doing when you want those who actually paid off their debts to be taxed to fund those who were too busy partying to pay off their debt.

To what's on the market now and distance per "single charge"?

This is kind of like when the record industry and the conservative politician's wives marked records with explicit lyric tags and it doubled their circulation. Alice Cooper to this day claims that those tags made his career. AC/DC albums sales went through the roof following their inclusion in that list as well.

Wasn't it capitalism that saw rich Europeans steal all the property in the new world, including yours?
Shit. by Columbus's 3rd voyage,. he was chopping the arms of the natives for not being productive enough as he needed to raise capital (gold) to pay off those who financed him.
The Congo was an example of a capitalist country, and cutting of the arms of those who weren't productive enough was also a solution to maximize their investment in capital.
Then there was slavery, the American capitalists took it to the limit, those slaves were property, which was sacred as you say. Being property, their owners could do whatever they wanted to them.

The worst form of government is a small group of like-mind psychopaths, better known as an HOA (Home Owners Association). They think they have the knowledge, wisdom, and authority to tell everyone else how to live their lives. When the condo owners get sick of their BS and vote them out, they move up to the city council.

To be fair... when has "making a better argument" ever changed mind of someone who presents and represents that opinion in order to make a profit? Hell, when has making a sound and logical argument stopped the willfully ignorant anywhere? You do know there are people who think the Earth is flat, right?

Just sayin'.

Whipped?
By whom?

You calling me or others names. Intimating we're nazis, racists, etc? When our reasons voting for Trump had NOTHING to do with any of that shit?

And losing?

Have you not just finished a 2 year 25 million dollar debacle? And you're still angry because POTUS wasn't guilty of what several government agencies were suborned to convict him of?

And at this point, the crazier you and your umpty-trillion candidates act, the more it looks like Trump 2020.

AND IT'S ALL YOUR OWN FUCKING FAULT!

But hey, go ahead and keep acting like psychotic children.

It makes for some AWESOME memes!

Because we have almost an entire generation of crazy people, and another generation of intellectual cripples who think that speech they don't like equals "violence".
So they are justified in using ACTUAL violence as a response.

Not to mention all the instances of people getting others fired, deplatformed, have their businesses destroyed and have their banks and payment processors sever ties with them. Just because their beliefs don't match what the perpetrator feels they SHOULD be.

You pull that shit on enough people, you better expect a response eventually.

I didn't even bother to read anything about it, but with current solar cell technology this is a total scam. You cannot generate meaningful energy with the surface area on a car.