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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).
Original Submission
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday July 15 2015, @02:32PM
You presume that people actually have a "right to live". The "right to life" that people talk about, is simply the right not to be killed by government, or another person. There is no "right" to life's necessities, much less life's niceties. A person who is to stupid, or to lazy, or whatever to actually PRODUCE SOMETHING simply doesn't deserve to eat.
Theft done well.
Theft done well, or otherwised, earns you a bullet in the head, where I come from. If you need a pound of flour, and you know that I have ten pounds in my pantry, you don't have the right to waltz in and take it. But, I, on the other hand, DO HAVE THE RIGHT to blow you into eternity when I catch you in the pantry. You, and all your socialist friends who encouraged you to take what is mine.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday July 15 2015, @11:34PM
(I like your certitude of an attack on your pantry. Not if but when, eh?)
All I said is "others chose to share their wealth by redistribution through taxes and it works quite well for them".
If you don't like it, then all it follows is that you don't like it * [xkcd.com]; it's not like the reality changes because of that.
(now, wipe that foam on the corner of you mouth and sleep well: no Finnish people is going to attack your pantry tonight, nor will I)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford