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Re:CA Law Was to Give Uber Drivers New Protections. Instead,... by kittiepryde on Saturday September 12, 2020 @10:40PM (#24457771)
1 person vs a large company is a power imbalance. The company doesn't even need you to survive. You need it.
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Re:CA Law Was to Give Uber Drivers New Protections. Instead,... by wonder_er on Sunday September 13, 2020 @12:13AM (#24458269)
What do you think about the other primary claim of the comment?

> We should repeal every minimum wage law, yes. They were created a century ago with racist intentions, their effects are still racist and yet today they are defended as being "anti-racist."

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Re:CA Law Was to Give Uber Drivers New Protections. Instead,... by WalterBright on Saturday September 12, 2020 @11:36PM (#24458084)
It follows from that that Microsoft/Google/Etc would be paying all their employees minimum wage.
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Re:CA Law Was to Give Uber Drivers New Protections. Instead,... by marcinzm on Saturday September 12, 2020 @11:45PM (#24458127)
You mean they’d do something like form a cartel with each other to keep wages down in unison?
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Re:CA Law Was to Give Uber Drivers New Protections. Instead,... by manigandham on Sunday September 13, 2020 @04:14AM (#24459320)
That's multiple companies and already illegal.

The point is that if no single person in a non-union company had any power then they wouldn't be paid anywhere near what they are in these companies.

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Re:CA Law Was to Give Uber Drivers New Protections. Instead,... by masonic on Sunday September 13, 2020 @04:48AM (#24459437) 

  That's multiple companies and already illegal.
And yet it happened, led by Steve Jobs.
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Re:CA Law Was to Give Uber Drivers New Protections. Instead,... by heavyset_go on Sunday September 13, 2020 @02:37AM (#24458888)
> form a cartel with each other to keep wages down in unison

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...

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Re:CA Law Was to Give Uber Drivers New Protections. Instead,... by WalterBright on Saturday September 12, 2020 @11:47PM (#24458142)
I mean if they have all the power, employees will be forced to accept minimum wages.
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