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Comment by aidenn0 | Hacker News Reader

Uber just needs to trick Swiss citizens into amending the constitution to treat them as not an employer like they did in California.

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Would be hilarious to see them try American style advertising and lobbying to influence local Swiss politics. They would get thrown out of the country so quick..

they would send push notifications in their own applications to get support for a referendum and then support for a popular vote on it, just like they did in California

May I remind you that the swiss people voted and rejected "guaranteed longer holidays" and also only just recently rejected guaranteed parental leave for fathers in the canton of Zurich. I don't have a lot of confidence in the swiss people when it comes to such things. Also American style lobbying and advertising definitely exists in Switzerland.

I consider a population that rejects benefits for itself to be immensely confidence inspiring. To have the general population consider overall system productivity and stability and not just blindly vote for your own profit is pretty amazing.

Presumably you're using this comment in support of rejecting "guaranteed longer holidays", but you can just as well use it to support "amending the constitution to treat them as not an employer".

The holiday thing was too greedy. They wanted a mandatory 6 weeks when the current law is 4 weeks and many already have 5 weeks. They should have set it to 5 and it would have passed easily. Get the 6 at a later time.

You are probably right that that's why it was rejected. Still very surprising that this would be rejected by the citizens when unlike in other places every citizen actually has the ability to vote.

Swiss citizens are not pigeons.

Californians are?

they're definitely not as bright as they think they are

Swiss citizens have made really really stupid choices when it comes to their referendums.

Swiss citizens are also not immune to culture war. The burqa ban literally was only going to impact ~50 people in the entire country and they spent that much money and time discussing this.

Switzerland hasn't been targeted by big business interests as much to sway their votes. The second they are it's gonna turn into chaos just like other places.

This is my favorite part of the game

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