I know some folks on the far right want to completely strip government regulation to the bone, but this here is a clear example why some level of regulation is needed, and why sometimes it needs to be expanded (or at least enforced better). The tech industry does amazing things, but it is hyper-aggressive. They need…

It’s not exploitation when people are freely choosing to do these jobs.

That’s not the part with which I have a problem. I have a problem with the part where that delivery is made by people whose compensation for their labor is slowly rounding down to zero. If that’s what the business depends on to stay profitable, it’s a shitty business and should fail.

How on earth did you get that from my post?

Ive bought and sold guns myself on that site.

Shit, I was going to drop a “well actually” on you thinking that everything you buy through that site needed to go through an FFL dealer before you actually got it, but the first item I saw had a workaround for that.

If (haha!) the US ever implements a Basic Income Guarantee, would people ever in a million years take such a shitty job for such shitty pay? What would become of Amazon’s business if its delivery drivers all told it to go fuck itself and walked out on that shit?

Currently, the federal definition of domestic violence is limited to people who have lived together... Current federal laws also don’t cover family members—say a sister or a daughter who has been abused.

This is better than nothing, but it’s also probably everything that will be done to address the mentalhealth issue in our country and the problem of mass thinkings.

You know, if you’ve actually been convicted of assault, I’m okay with you not being able to buy a gun regardless of whether it was your girlfriend, your father, or a stranger. You typically have to injure someone pretty badly for it not to be shrugged off or treated as disorderly conduct.

First off, this is a fabulous article. So thank you for that.

Who cares?

Amother issue not addressed was liability and tort laws. Nothing out there to protectpeople in the event they are hurt or killed by these drivers. Not to mention the drivers vehicles. Special auto insurance is required when you are using a car for this type of business. Bet Amazon is not checking to see if these…

Is this the “disruption” business model? Like Uber, get people to work for less and less wage at their own expense, while a few at the top make more and more money than their entire genetic line will ever spend?

I was home for lunch today and since I was home, the front door was unlocked. While eating I heard someone open the screen door, then the front door... I got up to see who the hell came into my apartment and hear the door close. Got to the bottom of the stairs to see a box in the middle of the floor. Opened the door…

My biggest issue with this the unlicensed, unregulated, no-comeback aspect of it. Random, self-employed Joes delivering stuff to my house is VERY different to UPS, Fedex and USPS. Especially when there’s no uniforms, no proper ID and no vehicle identification. A number of Flex drivers around my area have had the cops…

1) All “self-employed contractor” shit like this should be illegal. Flex, Lyft, Uber and UberEats and the like: these aren’t plumbers agreeing to do a specific task with specific tools and skills, this is exploitation of desperate people and end-runs around regulation.

This^^^, but the problem is that there’s too many either stupid, or quite often desperate, people who sign up to be an abused slave in the gig economy.

I for one am for the death of the gig economy as a whole, but that’s beside the point.

The current tech industry is all about breaking the rules/regulations/laws that protect employees and customers and then pretending like they offer a better service since they can do things other companies cannot. If uber/lyft/amazon had to follow the rules that other companies did, they would not be as dominant as…