> You actually do at a wide variety of places - every job I've ever had had no problem letting me duck out in the middle of the day to do errands, visit my gran

> You actually do at a wide variety of places - every job I've ever had had no problem letting me duck out in the middle of the day to do errands, visit my grandmother, celebrate my anniversary with my girlfriend, etc. You've been lucky then. I have that now, but previously, it was pretty rigid. > The problem comes down the road, where Uber etc. have outcompeted everyone else in the industry, and all the jobs are independent contractor ones with prices set by the app. I see what you're saying, and we don't want to repeat history. I just find it hard to believe with the agility of startups and ever-decreasing technological barriers that Uber won't have serious competition in the next few years. Anyway, I appreciate the history of labor law and explanation of dead-weight loss.