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Re:Uber and Lyft shutdown in California averted as judge gra... by asdasfasdfasdf on Thursday August 20, 2020 @04:09PM (#24228240)
The employer has dramatically more power in the free market. Especially when backed by endless piles of VC money.

Remember that the free market didn't end child labor, create weekends, or the minimum wage.

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Re:Uber and Lyft shutdown in California averted as judge gra... by Aarostotle on Thursday August 20, 2020 @04:15PM (#24228338)
It only enabled the technological foundations to do all of the above.
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Re:Uber and Lyft shutdown in California averted as judge gra... by rrose on Thursday August 20, 2020 @04:30PM (#24228545)
none of those things required technology. pre-industrial society would not have collapsed if laborers had weekends and a minimum wage
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Re:Uber and Lyft shutdown in California averted as judge gra... by node-bayarea on Thursday August 20, 2020 @05:08PM (#24229004)
How do you know that? Because of industrial revolutions, minimum wage and stuff was even thought about and eventually implemented! Without industries that afforded that, these social policies would have totally collapsed!
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Re:Uber and Lyft shutdown in California averted as judge gra... by chillwaves on Thursday August 20, 2020 @06:38PM (#24229839)
Society seems to be progressing just fine with a min. wage and weekends off.
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