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Re:California is cracking down on the gig economy by lisper on Saturday June 01, 2019 @04:13PM (#20071376)
That's the wrong analogy. The correct one is: would you rather be one poor person living amongst 1000 wealthy people, or one rich person living amongst 1000 poor ones?

And if 1000 is not a big enough number to make you think twice, then make it 10,000. Or 100,000. (The number of homeless in the U.S. is considerably larger than that BTW.)

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Re:California is cracking down on the gig economy by AnthonyMouse on Saturday June 01, 2019 @07:08PM (#20072334)
> And if 1000 is not a big enough number to make you think twice, then make it 10,000. Or 100,000. (The number of homeless in the U.S. is considerably larger than that BTW.)

You're comparing the entire US homeless population to one person. The actual ratio is less than one in five hundred.

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Re:California is cracking down on the gig economy by lisper on Saturday June 01, 2019 @08:50PM (#20072761)
I guess you're right. Six million homeless people is nothing to worry about. Lost in the noise. What was I thinking?
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