>Leave it to California to stick it to a company losing $7 billion per year trying to find its footing.
Uber has spent their entire existence dancing in legal gray areas. It's hard to have a ton of sympathy for them when their over-generous re-interpretations of the law bite them in the ass on occasion.
> Drivers are voluntarily entering into the current work arrangement. Why does the government need to have an opinion on the matter?
This is the argument used against every single labor law ever passed. It's not even an argument.
Our government and current economy is poorly equipped to handle the gig-economy. This decision doesn't really help it, but maybe it will motivate some lawmakers to try and address it longer term.
> Uber has spent their entire existence dancing in legal gray areas. It's hard to have a ton of sympathy for them when their over-generous re-interpretations of the law bite them in the ass on occasion.
True. But it's also hard to have sympathy for taxi medallion companies.
> It's not even an argument.
? It is, though. It's an argument that adults should be able to agree to whatever they want to agree to (or not). It's an argument for freedom.
Uber has spent their entire existence dancing in legal gray areas. It's hard to have a ton of sympathy for them when their over-generous re-interpretations of the law bite them in the ass on occasion.
> Drivers are voluntarily entering into the current work arrangement. Why does the government need to have an opinion on the matter?
This is the argument used against every single labor law ever passed. It's not even an argument.
Our government and current economy is poorly equipped to handle the gig-economy. This decision doesn't really help it, but maybe it will motivate some lawmakers to try and address it longer term.