Comment by conception
1 year ago
In CA at least, Uber effectively bought the protection through an effective ad campaign to pass by popular vote an effectively unrecoverable law to protect themselves.
1 year ago
In CA at least, Uber effectively bought the protection through an effective ad campaign to pass by popular vote an effectively unrecoverable law to protect themselves.
Voters have no agency? Kind of a dim view on democratic processes.
Voters are heavily influenced by propaganda. If they weren't, then there wouldn't be advertising.
Convince me that voters, at large, have agency.
Ad spend and marketing reach is a great predictor or election outcomes.
This last US election really lowered my optimism about the democratic process.
While deeply dismaying on multiple levels Trump was outspent in election budgets. While there are many things to damn voters for being mere puppets is a worse overly-reductive explanation than that the majority are just bad people.
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Functional democracy is much more than just "everyone casts a vote"
You tell the truth. That said, every other special interest already had a carve out from the authors of the bill. Uber/Doordash/Lyft just wanted the same special treatment.
I voted against the proposition but I also understood why Californian consumers would vote for it.