“The Most Dangerous Law In My Lifetime”

In 2020, California approved Proposition 22 – a referendum written by Uber’s lawyers and backed by the most powerful “gig” companies in America. The ballot measure protected these companies from new rules classifying their workers as employees, and when it passed it was a dream come true for some of the most powerful corporations in the U.S. Our latest short documentary explores the referendum’s fallout and the budding workers’ movement among workers for companies like Uber, Instacart, Lyft, and DoorDash.

[BlueSpiceSpace]

Everytime people say California is a socialist marxist state and then they pass refferendums like this it just makes me laugh-cry

[pressxtojason]

As a designer, I hate all the artists that created those flashy ads telling people to vote Yes on 22. Design is political.

[DC-wgcr]

Employers should be banned from telling their workers how to vote.

[supergamer]

Caitlin Jenner: California has been socialist for a while.
California:

[ThePhilNews]

All my homies hate prop 22. When my country, Germany, banned Uber, Lyft, etc. from operating unlicensed passenger transportation I thought it was just another day of "big TAXI" avoiding competition. Now I realize that we dodged a massive bullet with that.

[setaside]

Prop 22 is preCISELY the sort of legislation the supposed free market desires: a workforce utterly devoid of rights, wage enslaved at the bottom of the living pyramid.

[jerodwolf]

This is why you don't go to Logan Paul for politics and philosophy. I mean you shouldn't even watch them at all but that's aside the point

[Geosquare]

as someone who drives doordash to pay the bills this is really important awareness yall are putting out there, thanks <3

[redcatscratch]

When companies can essentially buy legislation like this, we do not live in a democracy or a republic, we live in a corporatocracy.

[ShrimpBarbarian]

Getting a Doordash ad in the middle of this was top-tier shenaniganery.

[ipsum]

The fact that the lobbies are so goddam powerful is downright terrifying

[hadara]

"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires."
~John Steinbeck

[ValentijnEnJack]

I'm glad you guys talk about stuff like this. Not to go all "boo-hoo society", but people REALLY need to start seeing that the system is rigged against you. (Unless you're already "powerful")

[jwrosenbury]

When a private company does propaganda it's called advertising.

[WealthforthePercent]

Prop 22 was a huge step back for workers in CA.

[harrylarrybarrygarry]

The game isn't just rigged, you're not even able to play.

[SuperNoah]

Gravel Institute makes videos explaining things that actually impact ordinary people's lives. PragerU makes 7 videos a week whining about cancel culture

[TheJayman]

"There's tons of money on both sides"? BOTH SIDES? LABOR AND CAPITAL? TONS OF MONEY!?!?! Can't believe this guy.

[andrju]

Thought Logan Paul would be presenting the video for a moment xD.

[daveharrison]

It requires a 7/8ths majority in the legislature to pass anything related to workers rights? That sounds unconstitutional as hell. The courts should strike it down.