Damn dude, that was such a spot-on summary I feel like I don’t need to log in to lemmy for a month lol

Maybe so! Always hard to say with the range of opinions I see on the internet these days

How did volunteers who run reddit’s for-profit business for them for free end up equated with landed gentry?

They did surgery on a grape

Not to mention employee protection/rights laws that don’t always apply to contractors

Taxi companies tend to be smaller, more locally owned businesses with actual employees instead of “contractors.” Why would we *not side with them?

Edit: missed an important word

I’d be curious to see which would be more practical: a decentralized version of Lyft/Uber powered by blockchain, or an employee-owned version of Lyft/Uber where workers keep all their earnings and pay a small portion for administrative fees to keep the app running.

Admittedly I’m always skeptical of blockchain’s ability to actually solve problems. But maybe it would have fewer infrastructural costs? Who knows