https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/02/nyregion/taxi-drivers-sui...
I ask for VC funded delivery services to stop stealing tips from gig workers:
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/why-instacart...
I’d also like to see social media held accountable for the harms done to children and communities and for our existing laws against anti-competitive behavior and collusion to be enforced against search and software platforms.
The chutzpah of the Silicon Valley influencer crowd over this weekend has become seriously fucking unbearable.
My feeds are full of sociopathic libertarians calling for government to make sure they never suffer any consequences for their failure to adequately manage risk? I mean GTFO.
I’m all for regulation and I in fact do think the government should be heavily involved in preventing this kind of thing and helping if it ends up happening.
But if we’re going to regulate let’s fucking regulate. Any answer to this tweet should start with a quick review of this guy and his friends campaign contributions and lobbying involvement.
There’s nothing special about you. Your lives aren’t more important than the lives of the children of employees at the Carrier plant in Indianapolis, or the workers at the Amazon faculty on Staten Island.
If your values system only applies to you and your friends it’s not much of a values system.