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Re:Rideshare operations are being suspended in California by yoelo on Thursday August 20, 2020 @03:01PM (#24227245)
Exactly. Uber and Lyft are a 19th century labor situation which masks itself by using 21st century technology
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Re:Rideshare operations are being suspended in California by kmlx on Thursday August 20, 2020 @03:48PM (#24227927)
by giving drivers the right to turn the app off at any time?

when did that happen in the 19th century?

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Re:Rideshare operations are being suspended in California by mdorazio on Thursday August 20, 2020 @04:00PM (#24228105)
Underpaid day laborers could walk off the job site any time they wanted to and go to another site the next day...
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Re:Rideshare operations are being suspended in California by mike00632 on Thursday August 20, 2020 @03:57PM (#24228060)
A taxi could simply turn its light off.
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Re:Rideshare operations are being suspended in California by bergstromm466 on Thursday August 20, 2020 @03:07PM (#24227344)
Exactly. As Professor Guy Standing says:

"The Precariat is the first class in history to be losing acquired rights – cultural, civil, social, economic and political. This is documented in A Precariat Charter. It leads to the most crucial feature. Those in it are reduced to being supplicants. The Latin root of precariousness is “to obtain by prayer”. The precariat must ask for favours, for charity, to show obsequiousness, to plead with figures of authority. It is degrading and stigmatizing." [1]

[1] https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/11/precariat-global-clas...

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