Cory Doctorow on Nostr: West may have run a Democratic presidential campaign, but he epitomizes the corporate ...
West may have run a Democratic presidential campaign, but he epitomizes the corporate corruption that gave us Trump. As Horan writes, West's first major accomplishment at Uber was getting the company exonerated for intimidating customers who were raped by Uber drivers. But his obit will lead with the fact that he got California's Prop 22 passed, legalizing Uber's worker misclassification, allowing the company to pay well below minimum wage and evade workplace protection laws.
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