This is incorrect. Ask anyone who has had an insider peek of any on-demand company's finances. The largest cost to all of these companies is employee acquisition, which continues to rise.
Take your own advice and do the unscientific thing of talking to the drivers. How many of them are new? How many are old? Surprising how many of those fall into the first category.
Interviewing and hiring interaction for seasonal workers.
We hire tons and tons of IC's two times per year. We run into bottlenecks due to time on the phone during interviews. If there way a consistent way to screen talent it would save us a ton of time.
Common people should know the philosophy which shaped the government thinks about their lives and productivity.
Yes econ is not a true science, because it is mostly conjecture supported by handpicked data, but at the same time, it is the only template we have created to think about the complex interactions in the competitive marketplace.
The power of the competitive market is the foundation for all capitalist action, economics is a way to understand how markets intersect and interact.
I am not sure what your getting at. My point is you can use definitions that are more intuitive while teaching the same topics.
Do a search and: The demand curve is a graphical representation of the relationship between the price of a good or service and the quantity demanded for a given period of time. In a typical representation, the price will appear on the left vertical axis, the quantity demanded on the horizontal axis. -This means nothing to most people.
"What is the demand curve? Different people are willing to pay more or less and buy more or of the same things. ex: 3rd car, water for a bathtub vs water for a swimming pool." -Sounds like something you might recall in 10 years.
I am all for talking about the laffer curve as more than as math. You can also talk about it as society breaks down and a black market grows. It's still economics as it relates to society it's also meaningful to people.
For comparison CIS 101 is often this is how you use Excel and somewhat useful to most students, but also not really a foundation for a CS degree.
A)
A simple financial options trader for hot ideas.AKA - trading weekly options on Netflix, or facebook. $ could also be pooled so smaller than 1 option positions could be taken.
I know a lot about finance and could help you make this tool.
B)
An email sorting tool. Assigning importance scores to emails and then having the email predict where you want incoming emails to be in your list (higher scores = near the top)
C)
A tool for entering your course list, and having the page find all of the cheapest markets to buy your books from. Then transacting the total deal from one webpage.
Message me if you want me to discuss further any of these ideas. These are rather simple ideas that could make a good side project. If we actually get something done, I have much bigger projects.
I used bigwords.com in school, which is similar to C. While you enter your books rather than your course list, it then searches a ton of retailers to find the best combination. I generally found the results to be much better than what I'd find on my own.
There is no contact info in your profile... I'm interested in the email idea, check out https://github.com/alain94040/coolbox for my own list of ideas regarding email.
cool its clamb777@gmail.com - email me if you want to talk about it more.
I'm looking over your stuff and I like where your ideas are headed. You cover a lot of topics in your write up on Github. My thinking has been towards a much smaller feature set, specifically one that would help the most busy people who need the product most. After this has been achieved with a solid market share of the target market, then we begin adding additional features.
One of the major hurtles, is that email is intrinsically different for everyone. A great email solution is one accepts this natural hurtle and uses it to create an economic moat against the inevitable competition.
While I am not an expert in email or programming for email software, I have developed a feature set and interface that I believe would solve these email issues.
This project is important to me, because I think it would not only improve my life and productivity, but the lives of many others who are enslaved by emails.
Just talk to the drivers - you will get it.
Uber can continue churning their workforce for at least 15+ years as automation continues to whittle down the blue collar workforce.