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0 pointsdebacle7y ago0 comments

> Instacart delivery workers are classified as independent contractors

Only Instacart believes this.

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They don’t believe it either, but it’s convenient lie, like corporations being people. It’s ridiculous, but as long as it’s the law and the people benefiting tip their politicians well, whomp whomp.

xref7y ago

Dismissing corporate personhood as “a convenient lie” is pretty flip when the Supreme Court has ruled it is enshrined in the constitution.

But boy I’d love to dis-enshrine it.

Pharmakon7y ago

Let’s not overstate the issue. The SCOTUS has a history of convenient lies, from the legal basis of segregation to fuckery around evolution.

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0 pointsdebacle7y ago0 comments

> Instacart delivery workers are classified as independent contractors

Only Instacart believes this.

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Pharmakon7y ago

xref7y ago

Dismissing corporate personhood as “a convenient lie” is pretty flip when the Supreme Court has ruled it is enshrined in the constitution.

But boy I’d love to dis-enshrine it.

Pharmakon7y ago

Let’s not overstate the issue. The SCOTUS has a history of convenient lies, from the legal basis of segregation to fuckery around evolution.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse