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    [–]send_nasty_stuff 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    This legislation was crafted by those corporations though. They absolutely want to kill freelance work. It's not like these freelancers are going to magically go find higher paying jobs. People do freelance work because it's flexible and often times allows them to develop the skills to move into higher income brackets. Now that rung is cut off.

    [–]Drewski 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Freelance jobs are “feudalism,” says California Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez. She persuaded California’s legislature to pass a new law reclassifying freelance workers as employees...

    ...Once the bill passed, Vox media cut hundreds of freelance writing jobs. When Gonzalez was asked if she felt bad about that, she sneered, those weren’t “real jobs.”

    The arrogance of some people is unreal. All these officials and "intellectuals" (who many would argue really aren't real jobs) patting themselves on the back after ruining a bunch of people's livelihoods.