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I ask for all the taxi drivers who were completely fucked by Uber and Lyft to be made whole: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/02/nyregion/taxi-drivers-suicide-n
by CPLX 4y ago
I ask for all the taxi drivers who were completely fucked by Uber and Lyft to be made whole:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/02/nyregion/taxi-drivers-suicide-nyc.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/02/nyregion/taxi-drivers-sui...
I ask for VC funded delivery services to stop stealing tips from gig workers:
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/why-instacart-doordash-workers-don-t-always-receive-tips-you-n965926 https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/why-instacart...
I’d also like to see social media held accountable for the harms done to children and communities and for our existing laws against anti-competitive behavior and collusion to be enforced against search and software platforms.
The chutzpah of the Silicon Valley influencer crowd over this weekend has become seriously fucking unbearable.
My feeds are full of sociopathic libertarians calling for government to make sure they never suffer any consequences for their failure to adequately manage risk? I mean GTFO.
I’m all for regulation and I in fact do think the government should be heavily involved in preventing this kind of thing and helping if it ends up happening.
But if we’re going to regulate let’s fucking regulate. Any answer to this tweet should start with a quick review of this guy and his friends campaign contributions and lobbying involvement.
There’s nothing special about you. Your lives aren’t more important than the lives of the children of employees at the Carrier plant in Indianapolis, or the workers at the Amazon faculty on Staten Island.
If your values system only applies to you and your friends it’s not much of a values system.
- MrMan 4y agoYeah they can all burn
- haiti_outlaw 4y ago[flagged]
- resters 4y ago> sociopathic libertarians calling for government to make sure they never suffer any consequences for their failure to adequately manage risk FYI libertarians typically do not want the government / taxpayers to bail out companies for bad decisions.
- CPLX 4y agoYou would think so but go check out Twitter.com they seem to have had a change of heart on this topic all of a sudden.
- midoridensha 4y agoNo True Scotsman fallacy
- resters 4y agoI see your point that the quality of discourse is very low and that most ideological labels are worn haphazardly without the wearer really understanding what philosophy he/she is claiming to support. Many sloppy "pro business" kinds of people claim to be libertarians but they really want a lot of government intervention in some markets and not others. This is just an example of typical hypocrisy and not proof that people who actually do support libertarian philosophies are like that.
- midoridensha 4y agoThe problem is you're looking for ideological purity, and such a thing doesn't really exist. Poll everyone who identifies as "libertarian" and you'll find that almost none of them meet your standard.
- resters 4y agoSo then what is the point of using the label the way the OP did?