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Re:Gig economy companies spent more than $200M to bankroll P... by Alex3917 on Friday November 13, 2020 @11:05AM (#25083650)
> I then hire them directly.

Which can get them kicked off the app, and leave them with tens of thousands of dollars in car loans that they have no way of repaying. That's what makes them employees and not independent contractors, the fact that they aren't allowed to do this.

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Re:Gig economy companies spent more than $200M to bankroll P... by JumpCrisscross on Friday November 13, 2020 @11:10AM (#25083701)
> Which can get them kicked off the app

Can you cite a single example of this?

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Re:Gig economy companies spent more than $200M to bankroll P... by rkho on Friday November 13, 2020 @02:54PM (#25086647)
> and leave them with tens of thousands of dollars in car loans that they have no way of repaying

This assumes every single driver on the platform is a debtor of subprime auto loans.

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