CA Law Was to Give Uber Drivers New Protections. Instead, Comedians Lost Work

Re:CA Law Was to Give Uber Drivers New Protections. Instead,... by throwanem on Sunday September 13, 2020 @07:38AM (#24460162)

You're right, they have. Unfortunately, having failed to retain the lessons of the first Gilded Age, we're now well into a second, and closer to its inevitable failure and collapse than to its "morning in America" beginning. So it goes.

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Re:CA Law Was to Give Uber Drivers New Protections. Instead,... by cft on Sunday September 13, 2020 @09:06AM (#24460595)

First Guilded Age is what made America wealthy. I would not call what we have now a Guilded Age- look at the debt. We have been squandering that first Guilded Age's wealth since 1933, but these things have a lot of inertia.

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Re:CA Law Was to Give Uber Drivers New Protections. Instead,... by kyralis on Sunday September 13, 2020 @11:25AM (#24461437)

Post-WW2, which had remarkably lower levels of inequality, is what made America wealthy. The first guilded age gave us the depression.

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Re:CA Law Was to Give Uber Drivers New Protections. Instead,... by unishark on Monday September 14, 2020 @06:34AM (#24468624)

> The first guilded age gave us the depression.

This seems like a stretch.

The great depression was more than a generation after the gilded age ended, and after a world war followed by an economic boom (roaring 20s).

The US became a word power during the gilded age.

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