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Re:Yelp Is Replacing Restaurants’ Phone Numbers So Grubhub C... by markdown on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @12:20AM (#25120518)
Just as business owners don't trust their human cashiers, governments don't trust business owners.

In my country, the cash register of every company that makes over x amount of annual revenue is connected via the internet to the taxman.

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Re:Yelp Is Replacing Restaurants’ Phone Numbers So Grubhub C... by unishark on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @02:06AM (#25120980)
In the US, the govt outlawed the software contracting industry in the 80s because they suspected people weren't reporting their earnings when they filed their taxes. forcing everyone to become employees of companies that were better monitored. I suspect the same motivation is partly behind the attempts to eliminate other kinds of gig work now.
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