they may have no choice.... in future only very few people will have high paying jobs due to automation and AI... and the only high paying jobs will require skills that can't be taught or require some special talent. things like entertainers, creative professionals, inventors..

if your kids end up as non working parents.. it may not be by choice..

This post has been edited by moosekaka: Aug 11 2017, 03:46 PM

from the way goodboy talks I have my doubts whether he can last as a grab or Uber...

Open your eyes and consider whats happening today vs our parents time (baby boomers)....yes they will be jobs...but the distribution for those kinds of jobs in terms of income and 'status' will be bifurcated and skewed. Take your example of professional computer gamers....they are in the same class as NBA , tennis players and Hollywood entertainers in terms of their rarity and scarcity, ie only the very very best get to make an income from their profession.

Todays IT and tech companies have roughly 1/20th to 1/10th the manpower of our parents factories and manufacturing sectors. Consider GRAB....how many highly paid developers do they have vs the number of kuli drivers? Many smart people are already wondering how the current societal and economic system will have to readjust to a future where only 1% of the population have the abilities to hold those jobs that will generate 99% of the wealth, while the rest of the masses are reduced to jobs which are basically surplus/redundant/low value/fungible etc etc. Example....in US Amazon hires a lot of workers now to work in their warehouses, these workers used to be factory and retail workers, exactly the kind of jobs displaced by Amazon. The problem is these warehouse jobs are extremely susceptible to automation....

My advice...have less children because the value of human labor is going to decrease in the very near future (it started when factories replaced farming, 11 plus kids households became 2-3, now in the AI era it will become 0-1).

Why the cynical tone? Never did say I have a plan, except perhaps having less children.

my theory is that today some Dev was playing around with the server and accidentally introduced the justgrab version into the app, then after some panic rushed to revert to old version. but somewhere in the reversion one or a few setting is off, including the one about b2b matching and driver location. hence all the nonsense b2b matching this evening. morning and noon, before the just grab bug, everything was fine, did b2b in klcc no problems at noon time.

I think you're over estimating their developers competency.... if you ever work with software devs you know this kind of things always happens.... one guy pushes changes without knowing that some other part of the app will break.... then reverting back breaks more things.... it is a symptom of poor software development MANAGEment.
besides just grab hasn't even been introduced here yet.

This post has been edited by moosekaka: Aug 12 2017, 01:19 PM

another theory...justgrab supposed to assign based on nearest driver..... maybe someone left that code in the b2b system for grabcar after yesterday experiment??
gonna call CS and complain about the b2b.. maybe enough complains they can fix it this weekend..

yup...poor software management....no one works with some kind of version control there?

I ten hours yesterday...25 trips....because 7-9pm....only managed one trip per hour due to heavy jam in KL city center and job I get more > RM15 (got surge). rest of hours can get 3-4 jobs, min 2. If I knew KL city was going to be super jam friday night, would have rejected trips there and stayed in PJ, sure can complete more jobs one.

This post has been edited by moosekaka: Aug 12 2017, 02:40 PM

Just complained to CS about the b2b, she told me a lot of drivers also complained...will feedback to management .,...

please write email or call up CS and voice your complaint, the more of us doing this the faster it can be resolved.

well, she is 16 years old...

I like to ask those who have taken the old red/blue taxis before...is it common/possible to ask those drivers to make multi stops and wait for you while you go run errands?

Reason is seems a lot of riders here seem to think this is no big deal and like to ask us Grab drivers to do unplanned multi stops....

AFAIK, this kind of things never happen in countries like Singapore with a timed meter.

not true, this Friday alone I had two passengers ask me to detour unplanned, one young malay girl to 7e to buy water, the other Chinese Uncle ask me to send him to LRT after delivering goods to his first destination.

maybe grab can't make three place multistops? the girl had made a two stop multistops,7e was the third stop. Uncle didn't know about multi stop feature.

wow, in that case did you continue with the trip? or ask passenger to rebook?