"They say that the Alcalde is heartless and cruel ..."
Schadenfreude!
Got Democrats?
Merry Christmas!
#learntocode
I see yer problem right there....
Learn to code.
“California lawmakers meant for the new law, Assembly Bill 5, to help Uber and Lyft drivers get more pay and benefits for working long hours. But instead, to save money, companies responded by slashing jobs for part-time and full-time freelance workers altogether — right before the holidays.”
The great philosopher Ringo Starr had it right when he said, “Everything that the government touches turns to $hit.” Again, the article just provides another example of this principle. Government should STOP interfering with the markets. Lay down some safety rules and some limitations on hours for wage earners (as opposed to salaried workers).
I just hope that those who were fired don’t emote and blame their company for firing them, but that they think this through and understand that the blame falls squarely upon the legislature.
Merry Kwanzaa, Cali!
They bragged about how this law would help gig workers.
Nice work, dumbbells!
liberal is WAY too nice
more like fascists with a psychopathic and unGodly agenda.
‘It feels cold and heartless’
Democrats.
What did you expect?
California leadership gives full meaning to the thought “heads up their ...es .”
The marketplace takes care of itself.
If people don’t like the arrangements, they won’t participate.
There is no problem needing to be fixed.
Are they Democrats or decent people?
What a crock. The whole appeal of the gig economy is you only work as much as you want to.
Both for practical reasons and for mathematically verifiable moral reasons, authority and responsibility must be equal - else a balancing takes place as surely as current flows between points of unequal potential. To permit irresponsible authority is to sow disaster; to hold a man responsible for anything he does not control is to behave with blind idiocy. The unlimited democracies were unstable because their citizens were not responsible for the fashion in which they exerted their sovereign authority... other than through the tragic logic of history... No attempt was made to determine whether a voter was socially responsible to the extent of his literally unlimited authority. If he voted the impossible, the disastrous possible happened instead - and responsibility was then forced on him willy-nilly and destroyed both him and his foundationless temple.”― Major Reid, History and Moral Philosophy instructor in Robert A. Heinlein's "Starship Troopers" (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1959) (emphasis added).
Come on any normal person saw this coming a mile away
"They say that the Alcalde is heartless and cruel ..."
It was only a few weeks ago that VOX was singing the praises of that law. History has shown that most leftists do not change their minds as they have no sense of how logic works.
The large number of unemployed journalists, displaced for a variety of reasons mostly involving implementation of progressivism, bafflingly fail to see the tremendous opportunity which has opened to them:
Start a new news service.
There is an audience eager to pay for objective news. Current news outlets, which have betrayed these journalists by addressing what they wanted businesses to do, are little more than propaganda voices losing market share precipitously.
All these journalists have everything they need to build their media utopia: lots of experienced reporters, with lots of contacts, with whatever gear they need (i.e.: smartphones), with scalable services (i.e.: data cloud rental) available cheap, and - best of all - a mutual will to implement whatever progressive unionized business structure they see fit.
Alas, they lack two critical factors:
1. The will to actually start the business.
2. The will to actually provide objective news to an eager-to-pay audience.
Huh? Is this a California thing like crap on the sidewalks of San Francisco? What it a gig worker? Freelance folks are usually writers.