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i am genuinely curious what you mean by virtue signaling here. do you think that anyone who posts a critique of worker-employer relations is just pretending? i
by blueline 7y ago
i am genuinely curious what you mean by virtue signaling here.
do you think that anyone who posts a critique of worker-employer relations is just pretending? isn't a simpler explanation that they actually care about the issue?
- SilasX 7y agoMy criterion is: Does the comment show an understanding the benefits of contract-work relationships and potential downsides of AB5-style laws? If so, it's a substantive contribution, even if it condemns employers/promotes legislation. If not, the commenter is contributing nothing but how boldly they can speak against a perceived evil, and is rightly dismissed as mere virtue signaling. Is that an unfair criterion? (This is a special case of the Goldilocks heuristic, that you shouldn't trust someone saying that "X is too low" unless they have a model for when X would be too high.)