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Re:Uber Drivers Sue Company over Pressure to Support Prop 22 by chongli on Thursday October 22, 2020 @09:51PM (#24865279)
It's a backwards way of going about it. Instead of forcing anyone who ever wants to hire a human being to pay for their health insurance, the government should be providing it for everyone.

If I want to hire teenagers on my street to mow the lawn or babysit the kids, should I be forced to pay them benefits as well?

The alternative is the way California is heading: instead of taking care of people's needs directly, it's regulation after regulation to lock everything up so that only entrenched corporations with the scale to afford all these benefits can afford to operate.

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Re:Uber Drivers Sue Company over Pressure to Support Prop 22 by takeda on Monday October 26, 2020 @08:25PM (#24903223)
No, that kicks in once you have 50 or more of them and they work for you full time.

> The alternative is the way California is heading: instead of taking care of people's needs directly, it's regulation after regulation to lock everything up so that only entrenched corporations with the scale to afford all these benefits can afford to operate.

These companies spent almost 200 million for this proposition (highest in California history, and since it's California - highest in all of the states). They are not poor mom and pop shop.

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