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Re:Seattle Law Mandating Higher Delivery Driver Pay Is a Dis... by kortilla on Saturday March 16, 2024 @10:14PM (#39731341)
If it was a “hard truth”, it wouldn’t need a law forcing it into existence.
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Re:Seattle Law Mandating Higher Delivery Driver Pay Is a Dis... by crooked-v on Saturday March 16, 2024 @10:57PM (#39731532)
Economic efficiency isn't automatic. An obvious example would be slavery in the US, which was a tremendous economic drag for everyone except the slaveholders specifically and still required a civil war to even nominally remove.
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Re:Seattle Law Mandating Higher Delivery Driver Pay Is a Dis... by kortilla on Saturday March 16, 2024 @11:52PM (#39731798)
It’s not a “hard truth” if it wasn’t true until a law that just passed in one city.
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Re:Seattle Law Mandating Higher Delivery Driver Pay Is a Dis... by AnarchismIsCool on Saturday March 16, 2024 @10:59PM (#39731540)
That's...the point of a law...

Hard truth: running over people you deeply hate with your car isn't ok.

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Re:Seattle Law Mandating Higher Delivery Driver Pay Is a Dis... by drewcoo on Sunday March 17, 2024 @12:56AM (#39732029)
On the contrary, if it were easy to accept (not "hard"), it wouldn't need any enforcement.
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