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Re:U.S. judge says Uber drivers are not company's employees by raducu on Friday April 13, 2018 @08:16AM (#16829236)
Isn't all of this true for a lot of jobs? Janitor, picking up fruits, garbage man and so on and so on. These are all jobs, these are people working, of course in this day and age everyone should make a decent living wage. Uber drivers are no more contractors than factory workers, they're not ride-sharing anything, they are (exploited) taxi drivers. This contractor/temp bullshit thing reeks of dark age mentality -- mistress vs wife, bastard vs legal heir.
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Re:U.S. judge says Uber drivers are not company's employees by toddBarkus on Friday April 13, 2018 @09:41AM (#16829864)
It's the aspect of personal choice that you're skipping over. Uber drivers made the choice to apply to work as "independent contractors" and agreed to the terms. A bastard child has no agency in the arrangement, but a mistress likely did agree to the arrangement. There's no fair expectation of the latter to be retroactively or otherwise considered a legal spouse, nor is it just for a contractor to sue to force others to change classification.
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Re:U.S. judge says Uber drivers are not company's employees by drunkenmonkey on Friday April 13, 2018 @12:22PM (#16831468)
These people did not choose to be born poor.
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Re:U.S. judge says Uber drivers are not company's employees by toddBarkus on Friday April 13, 2018 @08:04PM (#16834976)
They chose to accept Uber's deal. Don't strawman
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Re:U.S. judge says Uber drivers are not company's employees by drunkenmonkey on Saturday April 14, 2018 @07:57PM (#16840288)
Heartless and out of touch with the needs of the general public. Guess that happens when you forget what it means to struggle to pay both rent and health insurance.

When you see a poor person struggling, remember that your public arguments contributed to their plight. If that even resonates with you.

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Re:U.S. judge says Uber drivers are not company's employees by toddBarkus on Monday April 16, 2018 @07:58PM (#16854136)
We're not accountable for others choices. It's not on the private sector to play parent
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Re:U.S. judge says Uber drivers are not company's employees by gowld on Monday April 16, 2018 @07:05PM (#16853753)
Uber chose to open its business in a country with labor laws. It could have opened in China instead.
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