https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_22,App-Based_Drivers_as_Contractors_and_Labor_Policies_Initiative(2020)

  • Zuki [he/him, comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    This was weird. I was voting from overseas so I didn’t see all the advertisements. From the wording of the prop itself, they made no effort to make themselves not seem like the bad guys? What is a chud’s argument for how this is not just flagrant corporate greed?

    • Rem [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      In their ads they really tortured the logic of the thing to make themselves look like they were giving more rights to drivers. They also made drivers click a thing that said they supported the proposition before taking any work, which let them say "see, our drivers almost universally support it!"

    • GravenImage [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      they made no effort to make themselves not seem like the bad guys

      The California Ideology is pure evil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Californian_Ideology

    • MarxistHedonism [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      Basically Uber/Lyft/Doordash were threatening to pull out of CA if it didn’t pass and astroturfed the idea that it passing meant they’d limit the amount of drivers and force them to work shifts.

      Saw a lot of probably paid accounts on r/Doordash like “I’m an independent contractor because I want to choose when I work. If I wanted benefits, I’d get a full time job.”