Because there's nothing automatic about our law passing process. How many years is the right amount to strike an old law from the books? You wouldn't want something like the abolishment of slavery to ever become automatically unenforceable. So now you need someone to decide on a case by case basis which laws should still be on the books... well, that's what the Supreme Court is for. They don't reconsider every law, though. It seems to be at their discretion.
Pandemanium
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I doubt any place will hire you for only one day a week. That will not be helpful for them.
Eh, when you grow up around an overly judgmental adult it's easy to think all adults are like that.
You can't do that in the US. To give you another ID they have to punch a hole in the first one, rendering it invalid. Otherwise everyone would just get multiple IDs and sell the extras to their underage friends.
So if I walked into a restaurant that specialized in a certain cuisine (choosing the right one out of hundreds is a skill, right?) and wrote down a list of ingredients, and the restaurant made me a meal with those ingredients according to however the restaurant functions (nobody can see into the kitchen, after all), does this make me a chef?
Most retail stores and restaurants already have cameras everywhere. I had a boss who would sit at home watching the feed and then call the store to yell at us when he thought we were burning sandwiches.
There's still the issue of birds, which do not like these things in their airspace and, depending on the size, will absolutely either attack drones or be maimed by them. Also, helicopters and small planes often fly quite low. We haven't had a great record with autonomous cars, but sure, let's try autonomous flying drones. What could go wrong?
The part that isn't mentioned in this article is the onus of marketing. Now that anyone can self publish with almost no overhead, more than a million books are published every year. How many of those even get noticed? Sometimes it feels like people see the same 10-20 books on the bestseller list (which is gameable btw) and think that's all there is to read.
These days, traditional publishers don't do any marketing on behalf of authors unless they feel it's a sure thing, similar to how they give out advances. If you are already famous or have large social media following, you're far more likely to get an advance or a marketing effort. Everyone who self publishes, and even most who are traditionally published, have to do their own marketing. Most writers are not marketers, and this is where they fail, no matter how good their book might be.
Personally, I think the big publishers will collapse soon and the whole industry might move to a subscription model ala Spotify. That would probably be worse for writers, but no one seems to be able to come up with a solution that makes book writing a more viable career.
It's also pretty useless without a comparison to how much we don't import. Take dairy for example: I'm sure we produce an order of magnitude more dairy than the amount we're importing.
Why is New York not even on the map?
I feel like this will be a boon to all the restaurants who aren't paying their staff well. Their prices will stay the same. Meanwhile, restaurants trying to pay a living wage will have much higher prices but won't be able to tell you why. Customers will "vote with their wallets," putting the higher paying restaurants out of business.
Overall it's a good idea to get rid of extraneous fees, but I feel like they didn't quite think it all the way through.
bUt NoBoDy EvEr PrImArIeS An InCuMbEnT!
I hope they realize now we really should start.