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Re:California Labor Bill, Near Passage, Is Blow to Uber and ... by i_am_proteus on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @10:29AM (#20928588)
No individual has any right to make a living doing anything they want to. If sufficient people are willing to do a job at a reduced wage because they enjoy it, that is their right.

This is like saying that libraries should ban unpaid volunteers in order to justify the hiring of more librarians.

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Re:California Labor Bill, Near Passage, Is Blow to Uber and ... by lazyasciiart on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @11:23AM (#20929209)
It is illegal in the US to have volunteers do work that would otherwise be done by a paid employee. That's why unpaid internships are, by default, illegal - to be legal they must replace the payment with school credit and valuable experience, basically.
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Re:California Labor Bill, Near Passage, Is Blow to Uber and ... by blub on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @10:46AM (#20928809)
Labour laws set minimum standards that all companies and employees / contractors / whatever should adhere to, because it reduces the likelihood of abuse.

The "right" you mention doesn't exist in e.g. countries with minimum wage laws.

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