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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: 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.

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