Imagine having such serious brain worms that you vote democrats down ballot and vote for prop 22 (which state democrats opposed and even Biden came out against it)
I feel like Uber was able to have a HUGE influence with both money and the fact that they could instantly ping every person in california that has Uber installed on their phone telling them their precious Uber will go away if they don't fall in line to dismantle workers rightsl.
The narrative used by uber was that drivers would be put out of work, pulling at the heartstrings of voters who probably unironically believed they were voting progressively and not sending us back to the fucking gilded age.
They did more shit that should be illegal. Uber just flouts the law, it's insane. It's absolutely insane what this company gets away with. Every fucking employee deserves to be in prison, including the coders. Send them for 6 months of fucking ethics classes and then make them work for minimum wage until they fucking fail.
Gig companies dropped almost $200m in adds to get it through. That doesn't even include every time you open their app making you sit through a pop up ass saying to vote yes on it.
Americans are too dumb to do real research on stuff.
Honestly I find it so pathetic because democrats control all levers of government in california and they kinda just let this happen? How did they not see this coming over the past decades? They knew they had this system of propositions and no one thought "gee maybe we should enact some reforms so a corporation doesn't exploit our system of citizen propositions"
I hate the Democrats but there isn't a lot they can do in this case. The problem is money in politics and the supreme court has ruled against spending limits for the last 40 years. Obviously this gets even worse with citizen initiatives but it is what it is.
That said, I think Democrats only passed that law because they figured it'd get defeated at the ballot and they can walk with their hands clean "Well, the people have spoken!".
Imagine having such serious brain worms that you vote democrats down ballot and vote for prop 22 (which state democrats opposed and even Biden came out against it)
I feel like Uber was able to have a HUGE influence with both money and the fact that they could instantly ping every person in california that has Uber installed on their phone telling them their precious Uber will go away if they don't fall in line to dismantle workers rightsl.
The narrative used by uber was that drivers would be put out of work, pulling at the heartstrings of voters who probably unironically believed they were voting progressively and not sending us back to the fucking gilded age.
They poured insane amounts of propaganda into it.
They did more shit that should be illegal. Uber just flouts the law, it's insane. It's absolutely insane what this company gets away with. Every fucking employee deserves to be in prison, including the coders. Send them for 6 months of fucking ethics classes and then make them work for minimum wage until they fucking fail.
Send the execs to prison for forever.
Gig companies dropped almost $200m in adds to get it through. That doesn't even include every time you open their app making you sit through a pop up ass saying to vote yes on it.
Americans are too dumb to do real research on stuff.
Honestly I find it so pathetic because democrats control all levers of government in california and they kinda just let this happen? How did they not see this coming over the past decades? They knew they had this system of propositions and no one thought "gee maybe we should enact some reforms so a corporation doesn't exploit our system of citizen propositions"
I hate the Democrats but there isn't a lot they can do in this case. The problem is money in politics and the supreme court has ruled against spending limits for the last 40 years. Obviously this gets even worse with citizen initiatives but it is what it is.
That said, I think Democrats only passed that law because they figured it'd get defeated at the ballot and they can walk with their hands clean "Well, the people have spoken!".