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Re:FTC to crack down on companies taking advantage of gig wo... by bpodgursky on Saturday September 17, 2022 @12:41PM (#32878874)
The FTC is empowered by congress with the mandate of ensuring "consumer protection", so if they want to make a land-grab and expand their mandate, they have to twist the definition somehow to make their legal authority nominally cover it.
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Re:FTC to crack down on companies taking advantage of gig wo... by pessimizer on Saturday September 17, 2022 @01:42PM (#32879480)
Neither employees nor customers. I guess the underhanded fiction that is being pushed on us is that every gigworker is an employer.

If you get to be a small businessman due to your control over your own body, what is an employee again? Last I heard, employees also had control over their own bodies.

What is an employee?

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Re:FTC to crack down on companies taking advantage of gig wo... by tempie_deleteme on Monday September 19, 2022 @02:22PM (#32901954)
a watered down version of a slave... the upside is that all the 'onwer class' can swap employees in an out. e.g. if the company is a carriage, the employees are the road for it. no longer does every carriage build their own road. in this sense the companies swap employes
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