跟读练习: Great Moments in Unintended Consequences: Obscenity Blocks, Cooking Oil, DC's Tipped Wage (Vol. 19) - 通过YouTube学习英语口语
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And now, great moments and unintended consequences.
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And now, great moments and unintended consequences.
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Part 1.
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Bleep Creep.
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The year?
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1996. The problem?
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People on the internet swear too much.
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The solution?
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A content filter that blocks profane words and naughty letter combinations.
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Sounds like a great idea, with the best of intentions.
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What could possibly go wrong?
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Turns out, the English language.
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The filter started nuking innocent words like the perfectly respectable town of Skunthorpe.
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I'm sorry, Scunthorpe, England.
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When the resident Doug Blackie tried to sign up for the service, AOL basically told him to f* off.
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Their fix?
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AOL forcibly renamed the town to Scunthorpe, coining a new term, the Scunthorpe Problem, which continues to this day,
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forking up small towns, ducking over people with unfortunate surnames, batch slapping Pokemon cards, dog breeds, and even Super Bowl XXX.
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Sometimes the dirtiest thing is the filter.
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Part 2.
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Wage Rage.
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The year?
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2022. The problem?
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Base pay for tipped workers in Washington, D.C is a fraction of the minimum wage.
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The solution?
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Actually, it's not a problem since employers are required by law to make up the difference
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if tips don't bring someone's pay to full minimum wage.
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But we need to do something!
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Okie dokie.
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Initiative 82 requires yearly increases to the city's base salary for tipped workers until it meets the full minimum wage in 2027.
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Sounds like a great idea with the best of intentions.
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What could possibly go wrong?
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Turns out money has to come from somewhere.
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New labor costs led many restaurants to raise prices, drop staff, cut hours, or close up shop entirely.
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Many establishments began charging Initiative 82 fees, which customers found difficult to swallow.
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The average tipped-wage worker in DC saw their income drop over $1,800 in the two years since the initiative went into effect.
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Realizing their error, the DC City Council repealed the law, partially.
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Now the base wage percentage will raise every two years instead
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of every one year until it reaches 75% of the minimum wage in 2034.
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Which sounds like a great idea with the best of intentions!
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What could- Part 3.
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Oils well that ends well.
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The year?
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2023. The problem?
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Jet fuel is dirty.
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The solution?
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Push airlines to use sustainable aviation fuel made from used cooking oil.
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like a great idea with the best of intentions what could possibly go wrong.
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Turns out people like money.
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In places like Malaysia where fresh cooking oil is subsidized by the government, folks realized their palm oil was worth more used than it was fresh.
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Suddenly restaurants with deep fryers were changing their oil more often.
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Entrepreneurial types mixed old oil into new and called the whole batch used.
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At some point why even bother?
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Fresh oil was simply labeled as used for a tidy profit.
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Now environmentalists warn the scheme could further drive palm oil plantation expansion and subsequent deforestation.
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Now that's a slippery slope.
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Do you know any great moments in unintended consequences?
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Put them in the comments below!
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Unless you're from Skuntorp.
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