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On the front of this, it seems odd for legislation to target a specific company or a few companies. But as power concentrates in the hands of a few conglomerate

On the front of this, it seems odd for legislation to target a specific company or a few companies. But as power concentrates in the hands of a few conglomerates, policy will need to be tailored to addressing those conglomerates head on. While universal policy would be nice, it is both impractical to write and easy to avoid.

tyingq 5y ago
It is odd that it specifically only applies to "Warehouse Distribution Centers". I imagine the same problems exist in other industries. https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB701 https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...
- gruez 5y ago
  >It is odd that it specifically only applies to "Warehouse Distribution Centers". It's not odd at all when you consider how long of an exemption list AB-5 came with.
  - tyingq 5y ago
    It ends up either being an inclusion list or an exemption list at some point. I think it's odd to start with only one industry.
clairity 5y ago
> "While universal policy would be nice, it is both impractical to write and easy to avoid." rather, every law should scale with (economic and political) power, to create fairer markets, better representation, and more equitability, as conglomerates of any sort should be designed to benefit the public at large, not the principals only. for instance, fines for corporate malfeasance should be much higher proportionally than for small businesses (who have little/no market power). some laws try to approximate this with step functions, often a single cutoff (like "greater than 50 employees"), but those practically invite evasion (e.g., by creating 50-employee subsidiaries).
- CameronNemo 5y ago
  I wish our policy was so advanced. But we are policymaking at a lower level right now. Some people still think rent control is a good way to control shelter costs!
  - clairity 5y ago
    in theory we shouldn't need rent control at all, but our housing markets are so distorted that i wouldn't support abolishing it until the even more distortive policies (like prop 13 in CA) are repealed first.

tyingq 5y ago

It is odd that it specifically only applies to "Warehouse Distribution Centers". I imagine the same problems exist in other industries. https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB701 https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...

gruez 5y ago
>It is odd that it specifically only applies to "Warehouse Distribution Centers". It's not odd at all when you consider how long of an exemption list AB-5 came with.
- tyingq 5y ago
  It ends up either being an inclusion list or an exemption list at some point. I think it's odd to start with only one industry.

clairity 5y ago

> "While universal policy would be nice, it is both impractical to write and easy to avoid." rather, every law should scale with (economic and political) power, to create fairer markets, better representation, and more equitability, as conglomerates of any sort should be designed to benefit the public at large, not the principals only. for instance, fines for corporate malfeasance should be much higher proportionally than for small businesses (who have little/no market power). some laws try to approximate this with step functions, often a single cutoff (like "greater than 50 employees"), but those practically invite evasion (e.g., by creating 50-employee subsidiaries).

CameronNemo 5y ago
I wish our policy was so advanced. But we are policymaking at a lower level right now. Some people still think rent control is a good way to control shelter costs!
- clairity 5y ago
  in theory we shouldn't need rent control at all, but our housing markets are so distorted that i wouldn't support abolishing it until the even more distortive policies (like prop 13 in CA) are repealed first.