{"id":72123,"date":"2019-09-10T11:00:03","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T16:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72123"},"modified":"2019-09-10T06:07:35","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T11:07:35","slug":"what-do-you-call-unintended-consequences-that-are-utterly-intentional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72123","title":{"rendered":"What Do You Call Unintended Consequences That Are Utterly Intentional?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The California State Assembly &#8211; font of most stupid at the state level in the US, these days, at least in significant states (shaddap, Connecticut) has passed, and seems ready for a signature by Governor Newsom (who is to governors what the State Assembly is &#8211; see above) a <a href=\"https:\/\/leginfo.legislature.ca.gov\/faces\/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB5\">bill re-classifying independent contractors into employees<\/a>.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Y&#8217;know.  So they have to give them benefits. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This should work about as well as forcing up minimum wages. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Look &#8211; the &#8220;gig economy&#8221; looks like a terrible place to have to make one&#8217;s living.   And it&#8217;s a shame we have a huge population of terribly educated 20-somethings who seem to have given themselves no choices but to live in it, writing listicles and proofreading resumes and sharing rides.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the only thing worse than a crummy, exploitive job is no job at all.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Which is what a lot of Uber and Lyft drivers in California are about to have. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The California State Assembly &#8211; font of most stupid at the state level in the US, these days, at least in significant states (shaddap, Connecticut) has passed, and seems ready for a signature by Governor Newsom (who is to governors what the State Assembly is &#8211; see above) a bill re-classifying independent contractors into employees. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72123"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72127,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72123\/revisions\/72127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}