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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, non-profit organization
The communist leaders of the thankfully extinct Soviet Empire loved May Day. The first day of the fifth month featured boisterous proclamations about “worker solidarity” and huge parades of military hardware in their capital cities. We were all supposed to be impressed or fearful, or both, I guess. I was neither because I assumed that their toys and their workers worked no better than their barren, low-wage, socialized economies.... May 1 is a national holiday in many countries, where it is often known as International Laborers Day. In 1889, the Marxist Socialist International Congress chose this date to annually express its “solidarity” with workers (which is just about everybody, though that’s not what they meant).
With the rise of the digital gig economy, millions of Americans have found flexible and lucrative work through independent contractor arrangements with companies like Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash. They weighed the pros and cons of traditional employment opportunities, which often come with more benefits such as healthcare but rigid schedules, and instead opted for the flexibility that gig work brings. But some regulators and politicians have taken aim at these mutually beneficial arrangements, dubbing them “exploitative” and trying to eliminate them using the law. Based on his latest comments, President Biden’s Labor Secretary, Marty Walsh, may be among their number.... Biden and Walsh evidently think they know better than you what arrangement is right for your life and your circumstances. We should reject this kind of nanny-state thinking from our political class, from labor law to policing what cigarette flavors we can smoke. If Americans can agree on anything, it ought to be that adults should be free to choose their own path in life without oversight from busy-body politicians.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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