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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: 2) by takyon on Wednesday July 15 2015, @03:33AM

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Wednesday July 15 2015, @03:33AM (#209195) Journal

    I personally don't like throwing zingers in the summary, but we've never not allowed it.

    I think peeps hate it more when "Micro$oft" is written into the summary.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 15 2015, @03:43AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 15 2015, @03:43AM (#209201)

    Those were so obvious that if the summary didn't include them there would have been at least one post making the exact same points. Of course we get people complaining about them instead. Can't win.

    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by captain normal on Wednesday July 15 2015, @05:57AM

      by captain normal (2205) on Wednesday July 15 2015, @05:57AM (#209230)

      At least the comments can be modded. Not so the comments in the summary.

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  • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Wednesday July 15 2015, @07:20AM

    by aristarchus (2645) on Wednesday July 15 2015, @07:20AM (#209248) Journal

    I personally don't like throwing zingers in the summary, but we've never not allowed it.

    What is not forbidden is permitted? Besides, if we did not know the submitter's political take on the topic, how could we possibly even respond? You have seen this yourself, takyon, with the metals of no particular political importance.

    I think peeps hate it more when "Micro$oft" is written into the summary.

    I think you have confused "peeps" with "shills". There is a difference. It involves money.