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It's sort of elitist to essentially say, "There was a well funded campaign for a ballot measure, and voters are too hopelessly stupid to see past it and make th
by mullingitover 2y ago
It's sort of elitist to essentially say, "There was a well funded campaign for a ballot measure, and voters are too hopelessly stupid to see past it and make their own decisions." I voted for it because I thought AB4 was a badly written law and the legislature needed to be chastised. I'd vote for it again. As another commenter pointed out here, AB4 was a mess that threatened to disrupt a large number of people's livelihoods.
- pdoege 2y agoDid you miss quote the OP?
- mullingitover 2y agoNot quoting OP directly, just commenting on the oft-used trope ('the votes were bought!') used to attack the measure's legitimacy.
- carapace 2y agoWhy do you think they spent $200M?
- JKCalhoun 2y agoGood point. Whether $200M bought any votes, it's telling that corporate CA thought it was worth that.
- snapcaster 2y agoCan you explain why that isn't a good point? I assume companies don't spend $200 million for something that won't be in their benefit
- csb6 2y agoIs it elitist to say that marketing works, even if it ultimately is not in the target audience’s self-interest? Being under-informed or given misleading information is not the same as being stupid.
- mullingitover 2y ago> Is it elitist to say that marketing works, even if it ultimately is not in the target audience’s self-interest? Is it elitism to tell someone they don't know their own self-interest, and you do?
- Larrikin 2y agoIs it elitism to refuse to answer a question and instead ask another question?
- csb6 2y agoWith that attitude, no policy would ever need to be advocated for, and there would be no reason to buy campaign ads. Marketing as a business would be completely ineffective. The rideshare companies clearly don’t share your philosophy - otherwise they would not have spent massive amounts of money promoting the proposition. It seems reasonable to me that they were trying to sell a piece of legislation to voters that would greatly benefit the rideshare companies financially while downplaying the negative effects many believed it would have on gig workers.