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> People can quit Uber/Lyft whenever. Indentured servitude cannot be quit. This implies they have viable alternate choices (setting aside the obvious other opt
by slumpt_ 4y ago
> People can quit Uber/Lyft whenever. Indentured servitude cannot be quit.
This implies they have viable alternate choices (setting aside the obvious other option, unemployment or being houseless). It may be that Uber/Lyft are the only employers they have access to, or they may otherwise have a sufficient amount of bills / debt that they have no personal time / cash to explore employment alternatives adequately.
Conservative (and by and large its ally, libertarian) politics lean on this often obfuscated nuance to sell this idea that the poor always have the choice to simply leave exploitative employers. It is not so simple.