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Re:CEO of Uber: Gig Workers Deserve Better by CPLX on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @08:07AM (#24119451)
Of course they do. They make everyone start over with zero points literally every time they play.

If you can imagine showing up to play a friendly football game against a rival high school and noticing they have 5,340,322 points already on the board because their families had been playing the game for decades, then you’ll start to really get it.

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Re:CEO of Uber: Gig Workers Deserve Better by neilwilson on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @10:23AM (#24120537)
That would be mistaking a stock for a flow.

Every accounting period starts from zero. It's the flow that matters for this accounting period. Not how much you amassed from previous ones.

Football teams keep their players from previous seasons. They don't all go into a big hat and get redistributed to other teams just because they happened to be champions.

But we can change the rules and increase the handicaps.

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