https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_22,App-Based_Drivers_as_Contractors_and_Labor_Policies_Initiative(2020)
The rent control measure failed too. Any brainlet that unironically calls us 'commiefornia' can suck a shotgun.
rent control measure failed
Oh no, people who can only make money from being parasitic landlords are going to be screwed, how terrible
Why do these campaigns work? I dont see why working class Californians would vote for this
They say stuff like 7/10 drivers want the freedom to be independent contractors and choose their hours instead of being forced into an unacceptable schedule and that prices would rise making those services unaffordable for the low income people that rely on uber/lyft to get to work etc.
why working class Californians would vote for this
Gig economy workers are not part of the regular proletariat, they're somehow even more alienated than people with traditional wage employment. I bet a lot of people with regular jobs don't know.
My idiot dad literally thinks uber drivers are making bank. I have no idea where he's got that from.
My idiot dad literally thinks uber drivers are making bank.
I mean the thing is there are ones who do. You just gotta hustle like crazy, live in the right areas, and deal with how precarious the job is. But if you luck out there are people who make near six figures.
Arent all of those ran at a loss in effort to break taxi unions anyway? I seem to remember hearing this on some podcast or other.
Yeah they lose millions of dollars a year just holding market share until robot cars come
basically https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2019/05/ubers-path-of-destruction/
It is absolutely terrifying how effective the propaganda campaign was. Cornell Chest had a tweet about this earlier and it was crawling with simps defending the proposition
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?
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!"
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
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.”
Lois: Vapes...
California audience doesn't react
Lois: ...Baaaaad.
California audience gets out of chairs, hoots and hollers
It just means Lyft and Uber can continue to operate as do in the rest of the country. It doesn't mean things will get necessarily worse for drivers, they just won't get better. Also it might mean we're going to see more of this bankrolled legislation by tech companies in California next election.
