Hillary Clinton Plans to Campaign Against Uber’s Contractor Economy

I don't think we'll have autonomous cars in 2 years.

Uber will remain here and their rides will stay cheap. I am, however, very concerned about their drivers. Many of them are making huge investments purchasing new cars with the implicit (and sometimes borderline explicit, depending on the marketing rep you talk to at Uber) that they can have guaranteed work and a guaranteed wage. If über decides to cut driver wages in half and pocket the profits, drivers will be out of luck. This can be catastrophic for poor families, which will be basically be forced into wage slavery. This will have huge effects on the community as Uber gets bigger.

We can all point to how Taxi unions and their lobbyists are evil (as a colored man, it's difficult for me to get picked up by one), how awesome Uber is w/ their investments in autonomous cars, and the free markets are great...but we need real employee protections in this country.

We need real protection for drivers who are making a huge investment. This doesn't have to hurt consumers either, as über can still remain insanely profitable while maintaining lower prices.

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This is practically a deal killer for me and Hillary. I think that W2 employment is a dying model. Piecemeal 1099 work empowers every participant to have clear and direct economic benefit and takes the power away from corporations to exploit labor with manipulation about how incapable they are to function independently. They rob the individual of identity, forcing membership in the ranks of the company as a sense of self.

Instead I think work will be distributed, scalable, and coordinated with great software. I think that work will happen based on real-time pricing and presence. I think that means having skills and a good reputation means you can always work when you want as much or as little as you want as long as you actually produce.

I hope that said great software isn't owned and operated by a for-profit institution, but instead is a community-driven, decentralized tool. I think this would pave the way for as close as possible 'frictionless' marketplace where the value of things and people's time are based on the value they bring, not based on slick sales tactics or lobbied regulations.

I seriously believe that government needs to empower and support independent work, or face a slow, 'Snow Crash' style extinction when mesh coordination brings about digital voting, etc.

I get a sense that Hillary will in many ways enforce the status quo and that simply isn't the kind of leadership that we need as we approach 2020 and all that comes along with it.