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The FTC is empowered by congress with the mandate of ensuring "consumer protection", so if they want to make a land-grab and expand their mandate, they have to
by bpodgursky 4y ago
The FTC is empowered by congress with the mandate of ensuring "consumer protection", so if they want to make a land-grab and expand their mandate, they have to twist the definition somehow to make their legal authority nominally cover it.
- pessimizer 4y agoNeither employees nor customers. I guess the underhanded fiction that is being pushed on us is that every gigworker is an employer. If you get to be a small businessman due to your control over your own body, what is an employee again? Last I heard, employees also had control over their own bodies. What is an employee?
- tempie_deleteme 4y agoa watered down version of a slave... the upside is that all the 'onwer class' can swap employees in an out. e.g. if the company is a carriage, the employees are the road for it. no longer does every carriage build their own road. in this sense the companies swap employes