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Re:Elder Care Startup Honor Makes Contractors Full-Time Work... by bobby_9x on Thursday January 21, 2016 @04:03PM (#10948327)
The "gig economy" companies are actually a way of giving more people a chance to make money.

They aren't the bad guys here. The taxi unions, which stifled innovation, forced out all competition with the medallion system, and created a monopoly, which resulted in terrible, overpriced, and outdated systems only hurt the consumer.

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Re:Elder Care Startup Honor Makes Contractors Full-Time Work... by vkou on Thursday January 21, 2016 @04:27PM (#10948522)
Child labour was also a way of giving more families a chance to make money.
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Re:Elder Care Startup Honor Makes Contractors Full-Time Work... by gnashville on Thursday January 21, 2016 @04:36PM (#10948585)
Well put. Anyone can find a job and "make money". The issue here, of course, is much broader.
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Re:Elder Care Startup Honor Makes Contractors Full-Time Work... by cdcarter on Thursday January 21, 2016 @09:50PM (#10950441)
It's worth noting that the NWTA, what most people mean when they say "taxi union" is not by any means a traditional union. Since taxi drivers (in most jurisdictions) are contractors and not employees, they have zero collective bargaining rights.
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