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>> This seems like political posturing that's going to hurt the majority of employees if it passes. That reminds me of the posturing when they passed those chi
by georgeecollins 7y ago
>> This seems like political posturing that's going to hurt the majority of employees if it passes.
That reminds me of the posturing when they passed those child labor laws. And what did we get? A bunch of unemployed children.
- zhoujianfu 7y agoThe child unemployment rate in America is more than twice that of China!
- inferiorhuman 7y agoThat reads like a Zippy the Pinhead strip
- pishpash 7y agoSurely you're not arguing that adults have the same degree of agency and consent as children.
- kmlx 7y agothis is exactly what some people are arguing about. they treat other people like children, and then wonder why they aren't getting votes.
- manfredo 7y agoCategorizing contract workers as employees and forbidding or limiting child labor are vastly different situations. I can only assume that this is some failed attempt at a joke. Child labor laws prevented parents from sacrificing their children' educations to use them for immediate economic gain. This is not at all related to extending employee benefits to contract workers that set their own hours.
- blub 7y agoAnd gig labor laws could prevent people from sacrificing their healthcare and other benefits for immediate economic gain. Uber's, cause the drivers aren't gaining much, apparently.
- manfredo 7y ago> And gig labor laws could prevent people from sacrificing their healthcare and other benefits for immediate economic gain. You make the unqualified assumption that these people had healthcare and benefits before driving for Uber. And regardless, unlike child labor these are adults that are making these decisions for themselves. They looked at their opportunities and decided that driving for Uber or Lyft was best. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that these individuals are more qualified to make their own life choices than people on the internet who know nothing about their lives.
- CryptoPunk 7y ago>>I'm going to go out on a limb and say that these individuals are more qualified to make their own life choices than people on the internet who know nothing about their lives. At the risk of going down the partisan rabbit hole, this reminds me of the video segment where Ami Horowitz questioned people of liberal political persuasions on the ability of black voters to meet photo ID requirements, and then asked black Americans the same questions: https://youtu.be/rrBxZGWCdgs https://youtu.be/rrBxZGWCdgs
- lozenge 7y agoHe should have asked some Republican strategists, many are on record saying their voter ID laws are meant to suppress the black vote. He also isn't asking the black voters "the same questions" at all.
- CryptoPunk 7y agoThe black voters were saying every black person they know had photo ID and that instituting photo ID requirements would not prevent blacks from voting.