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posted by takyon on Wednesday July 15 2015, @12:57AM   Printer-friendly
from the sharing-criticism dept.

CNET, Business Insider, techcrunch and many others report on Hillary's beef with "on-demand/gig economy". Specifically:

"Many Americans are making extra money renting out a small room, designing websites, selling products they design themselves at home, or even driving their own car," Clinton said during a speech at the New School in New York City. "This on-demand, or so-called 'gig economy,' is creating exciting opportunities and unleashing innovation. But it's also raising hard questions about workplace protections and what a good job will look like in the future."

"Fair pay and fair scheduling, paid family leave and earned sick days, child care are essential to our competitiveness and growth," the former secretary of state said, referring to benefits not accorded to independent contractors such as drivers at Uber.

Meanwhile, others are quick to point that her "main super PAC decisively favored Uber over conventional cabs by a 25:1 margin" (doh, she didn't say Uber is bad, only that it is evil toward its empl... err... contractors) and Rand Paul tweets: "America shouldn't take advice on the sharing economy from someone who has been driven around in a limo for 30 years." (yeah, Dr Paul, zillions of male gynecologists were never pregnant, of course they know nothing about giving birth).


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  • (Score: 0, Troll) by jmorris on Wednesday July 15 2015, @02:47AM

    by jmorris (4844) on Wednesday July 15 2015, @02:47AM (#209179)

    For decades we have made it harder and harder to employee people in the traditional way. So now many people are a contractor and the trend is toward more of it. The only people who are shocked are the low info idiots and socialist monsters who caused the problem... they NEVER imagine that policies have unplanned consequences, often ones do not like. But they are only outraged for public consumption because every failure is simply a reason for more socialism, 'no crisis goes to waste.'

    Say it again kids, "What do social justice warriors do?"

    THEY. ALWAYS. LIE.

    ALWAYS.

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  • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 15 2015, @02:53AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 15 2015, @02:53AM (#209185)

    You sound angry. But it's not your fault, none of it. Instead, it's the fault of the "low information voters" who refuse to accept "personal responsibility". It's not your fault that your employment situation isn't better, you know you're OK.

    It's all their fault. Keep watching Fox News.

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday July 15 2015, @05:41AM

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Wednesday July 15 2015, @05:41AM (#209225) Homepage Journal

    The Americans with Disabilities Act protects the disabled as well as those who are merely perceived as disabled. The US Justice Department and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission are quite vigorous with their civil complaints and just about always win.

    The alternative is homelessness, food stamps, soup kitchens and to be a burden on society.

    I expect my problem finding work the last few years is due to my making it plainly apparent that I am mentally ill [warplife.com]. But the reason I work as a software engineer is that I write good code despite my hallucinations and paranoia. Physics doesn't work so well for me.

    I may be crazy but the Zaxcom Deva 3 won a Technical Academy Award after I ported the Apple Firewire Reference Platform to Texas Instruments DSP/BIOS and wrote a driver for an embedded TI link-layer chip.

    --
    Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 15 2015, @07:11AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 15 2015, @07:11AM (#209246)

    For decades we have made it harder and harder to employee people in the traditional way.

    Yeah! Damn right! Used to be be able to employee peoples right over the goddamn barrel, with no worry about webcams or cell phones or the feds getting involved! In fact, if you wanted to employee a n*****, you could go right ahead and then burn a cross on their lawn if they wanted a raise or some shit! I, like jmorris, pine for the old days, when men were men (whitemen, that is), women were scarce, and sheep were nervous. We used to be able to go around and like just employee about anyone. But now, all because of those Social Justice Warriors, we have to treat everyone as if they were people, or something. What is the world coming to? Next, they will want us to take down of Battle Flag of the Army of Northern Virginia of the Confounded States that lost the war, or something. Shit.

  • (Score: 2) by shortscreen on Wednesday July 15 2015, @07:14AM

    by shortscreen (2252) on Wednesday July 15 2015, @07:14AM (#209247) Journal

    Parent has been modded troll but he does have a point. Adding an additional employee to the rolls carries a lot of overhead. This can be a bad thing, for instance when you end up working a bunch of mandatory overtime because your employer has a financial disincentive to higher enough staff.

    As for paid time off, I think it's overrated. I realize that some people are underpaid and/or financially irresponsible and would run into trouble if they had to take time off that was unpaid. I am not one of those people, and these are separate problems. Instead, I have a set number of paid days I can take for this purpose or that purpose, and it's all spelled out in various laws and corporate policy manuals. If I am going to a funeral I'm supposed to provide the HR douches with a copy of a death certificate (I'm pretty sure that anyone who is willing to accept a job title containing the term "human resources" is necessarily a douche). If I have jury duty I need to show documentation from the court. If I'm going to the doctor I need a doctor's note. Etc. In my mind, none of this is my employer's business, just as with anything else I'm doing when I'm not at work. But for some reason, there are people who like the idea of their employer as their parent/guardian/feudal-lord, and having HR's nose in their personal business just so they can be paid to not work.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 15 2015, @08:15AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 15 2015, @08:15AM (#209261)

      Of course the parent was modded troll, he is jmorris! He is a troll! And one with a particular lack of humor. So back to you, since you are defending trolls, what was your point again? You have a job? That's good! Keep it up, buster. Join a union as soon as you can, or you will be toast.

      • (Score: 2, Disagree) by shortscreen on Wednesday July 15 2015, @05:22PM

        by shortscreen (2252) on Wednesday July 15 2015, @05:22PM (#209463) Journal

        jmorris is not (always) a troll. It's just that moderators keep missing the "disagree" category and selecting "troll" by mistake. They're only separated in the list by three other items, so I guess it's an easy mistake to make.