Vox was a big champion of California’s Assembly Bill 5. California’s new freelance worker “protections” aren’t doing much to help gig workers who contracted with Vox though. But the people at Vox are not very bright. So now we have this meme to point out their stupidity:
Instead of having the freedom to work on their own time, they got laid off. Laura Wagner is a senior staff writer and journalist. In other words, she is not very bright. So a freelance worker calls her out.
Will Laura Wagner change her philosophy after being confronted with reality? No. Statism is a religion.
Uber and Lyft drivers get to make their own work hours. Some use it as supplemental income. They log in and drive during peak hours. This helps people with low paying jobs have extra income and increases the supply of drivers during critical times so people can get from point A to point B cheaply.
Most people, especially journalist, can not follow long chains of economic reasoning. My only problem with these people is that they think they can use coercion, via governments, to implement their philosophies.