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This is a very idealistic view of the Prop 22 debate, and I encourage you take a more material analysis to this issue if you want to understand it.

It was a cheap way for VC-backed companies to "buy" a legal method to skirt existing labor laws and regulations. This is the antithesis of democracy.

Uber and friends spend over $200 million to pass this law. Yes, this is a purchase, or more like a theft. Yes, I would even go so far as to say every prop sponsored by a corporation is a purchase. Do you have the ability to spend $200m on a law to help your company? Would it be ok if you did?

> This type of speech ... should not be OK

I think there are perfectly good reasons to distrust democracy. especially in the information age.

Corporate lobbying and the wealthy's influence in politics damages democracy far more then this rhetoric ever could.