How is the largest number of people having the greatest amount of representation an example of an “imbalance of power”? People in rural areas should have less power than people in urban areas because we are an urbanized society in 2019. It makes perfect sense. It’s not the 18th century anymore. Most people live in…

Then the person complains to uber and then uber bans the driver from working. I.e. uber fires the driver.

I get that’s uber’s legal argument. It’s just ridiculous on its face. The driver and uber have a literal contract. That’s what uber points to for their argument the drivers have agreed to be “contractors” (though the law is clear language agreeing to a contractor/contractee relationship is not determinative as to the…

No. Fuck. I know you have to say stupid shit to even come close to being able to make your stupid argument that drivers should eat shit and be happy they even had the chance. But no, the drivers’ “contract” with uber isn’t a ride-to-ride contract. At best, you could argue they re-contract every time they open the app.…

“This is the core hypocrisy of the contract labor market. The purveyors of the gig economy reserve the right to ask its workers to do pretty much anything to please the customer but insist on paying them as if their job description is vanishingly narrow.”

“So technically speaking if my boss wanted me to wash his car, that’s not outside of my job description.”

Jesus christ, what an idiotic comment. The article isn’t against being quiet if that’s what the passenger wants. The problem is uber is directing the driver’s method of performing a task like how one directs an employee while claiming that they aren’t employees but are actually contractors.

You aren’t telling them. Uber is telling them. If you hire a contractor for a single job and tell them how loud to play their music then you are in a business relationship. If you hire a bunch of plumbers to service other peoples’ pipes and tell the plumbers not to play their music loud in the customer’s home if the…

No, this is about the decisions we make as a society and how we choose to set the laws we require individuals and organizations to follow. If uber doesn’t want to pay employees the required wages and provide the required protections under our state and federal employment laws they can stop being in business. How’s…

No, that’s the trump administration controlled National Labor Relations Board. Which of course that’s what they were going to say. The Obama controlled board was making the opposite finding.

What are you talking about? The have to basically all of those things. This article is literally about uber acting as the drivers’ supervisor. But by app so they can pretend there is some difference. Uber tells them what cars they can have, how the cars have to look, and in a way “suggests” a schedule through pricing.…

Yes. We get it. You don’t understand the difference between an “employee” and a “contractor”. You don’t have to be so proud about it. I mean, do you realize that moaning about the poor losers having to follow the “requirements of the job” actually totally matters about “whether you are a contractor or not”? If uber…

No, the Watson gives a number of reasons why a public option is inferior to single payer beyond the state vs federal financing problem.

You’ve never heard the term “skin in the game”? That was the mantra of the ACA centrists’ pitch to right wingers. That the ACA plans would make sure the beneficiaries have adequate “skin in the game”. It was a major part of the method by which the ACA would help reduce the cost of health care. Basically people would…

“If he is the chosen one, a lot of the more moderate democrats may not vote for him...”

You don’t get it. The government “distorts” the market when it makes rules I don’t like. When the government makes rules I like (such as the very existence of a property right for an idea) it’s just the natural workings of the “free market”.

Interesting article. I’m enjoying the whole series on “The Future of Labor”. It’s great you are giving people access to thinkers and concepts which aren’t widely disseminated in “mainstream” or even “progressive” media.

You mean she got more votes years or even decades later when there were more voters? Incredible! What a political talent. 

Good point. Women be stupid and are only able to have any ideas if those ideas are sexually transmitted.

Were have you been reading radical feminist discussions? Because in my very cursory, limited experience they care deeply about trans men. Maybe even more about trans men than trans women. From what I’ve seen, they are heart broken and angry about the virulent misogyny embedded in our society which they think makes…