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Seeing as you're already upset, I hate to break it to you that special purpose credit card gateways have similar regulatory requirements. That said, your chara

Seeing as you're already upset, I hate to break it to you that special purpose credit card gateways have similar regulatory requirements. That said, your characterization of Uber and such is egregiously inaccurate. Uber does not hire individuals who do whatever they want with their time and property. They hire individuals who are willing to use only very specific property, in very specific age and condition, to make money in specific places, in an exceedingly specific manner, while following very specific rules. As such, you're not just peddling a false dichotomy, you're doing so using grossly distorted portrayals of reality.

headShrinker 9y ago
'Upset' and 'not thrilled' are interchangeable in my lexicon. Didn't mean to convey hyperbole. It's generally understood that employees have all the rules you mention. I have been a contractor for 20 years and I have all those rules as well. So when does a consultant become an employee? Is it when I'm a 1099 or a W2 in the eyes of the IRS? The difference is in the initial negotiation; the benefits and a promise of future work for employees, but no such commitment for consultants. It's negotiated up front and must be renegotiated by both parties for any change. If I'm hired as a consultant, I don't get to claim I'm an employee later on because they worked me too hard. I have been worked too hard, but I know the rules, I made it through what ever the commitment I made, then either renegotiated or fired the client. That's what consultants have to do every day.
kinkrtyavimoodh 9y ago
The use of the word 'Hire' in your comment is leading (as in a leading question). You are coloring your argument that the drivers on Uber's platform are their employees by using colored words like 'hire'.