“The Most Dangerous Law In My Lifetime”
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- 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.
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You guys are awesome!❤
@@naaavy3571 You're awesome!
@@TheGravelInstitute also, where's the sources in today's video? curious
Thanks Gravel!
❤️
Everytime people say California is a socialist marxist state and then they pass refferendums like this it just makes me laugh-cry
Exactly! It's a sad joke 🤦♂️
Same here.
I at one point thought of leaving my home state of California for Vermont due to the problems we have involving the slow corporate takeover of the state. Then, I heard the breathing garbage pile who I call Bravely Bold Sir Rubin from the Rubin Report give his ideas of what he would do as governor (not that he's running, but I don't believe he's ruled it out in the future) and I thought that I should stay in the state and actively fight back.
I have yet to meet a person who fully understands what those words mean, and isn't a socialist, yet again I don't know any rich people fighting to protect their own interests soo...
Hasan made a good point about California in a recent stream, about how despite being reliably blue in presidential elections, it's a pretty fucking conservative state. It has more Republican voters than a lot of states and the California democratic party is pretty conservative as well.
Employers should be banned from telling their workers how to vote.
Ask ANY Hourly employee at a Walmart about Unions.
They should get their supervisor because that is what they are trained to do.
They are in my country, but since these are not "workers" I guess it doesn´t apply
It should in fact cost them an enormous amount of money every time they break this rule
"BuT tHaT's CoMmUnIsM!" - Morons
it is but it doesn't stop psychopaths from getting away with it
Caitlin Jenner: California has been socialist for a while.
California:
To be fair Caitlyn Jenner understands how to be an athlete and that's about it. Her freaking bonehead opinions on politics are obviously not relevant
I seriously want to see her face if she ever gets asked about what socialism is.
@@chase5177 wHEN GUBERMENT DOES THINGS
That's a joke, right?
She wouldn't know what socialism was if it bit her on the ass.
@@angelainamarie9656 That, and how to get away with murder.
When a private company does propaganda it's called advertising.
When i rub my nuts on a toothbrush it’s called recycling
advertising is them convincing me why i should buy their product, not how i should vote.
@@irenegrene488 found the coporate maga....
@@Hchris101 I think that's called reuse. Recycling is making pate.
@@kevinmclarkey621 You clearly have a higher regard for advertising than I do.
As a designer, I hate all the artists that created those flashy ads telling people to vote Yes on 22. Design is political.
sooo true bro.
a lot of people need to collaborate in order to carry out this massive propaganda campaign; influencers, designers, animators, actors, god knows how many people...
do this people realize what they're helping create? what they are promoting by collaborating with this companies?
every decision counts
Yeah seeing Logan Paul up there, taking probably a half million bucks to pass along this message that'll ruin the lives of a million poor people... I've seen him pop into the media before, people upset about this or that, this was the first time he's disgusted me
and the paid actors that were half paid half coerced into doing the ads. I can't imagine the amount of political intimidation and implied threats of violence that uber/lyft did against political activists as well
@@vdevendetta9398 no bro, they wanna join the elite too at the cost of their fellow americans.... on the other hand, nobody is really educated on how the world works, how money works, how politics work anymore and it's almost impossible to learn when you're an exploited sociopolitical class
@@FUNKY_BUTTLOVIN First? Watching him talk is the best weight loss program i've ever tried.
Thought Logan Paul would be presenting the video for a moment xD.
I was dumbfounded for a second there
I'd welcome a Logan Paul lefty arc
Saaaaaameee
Lmao me too
@@raven_g6667 yes, Logan Paul, anti-capitalist
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.
"preCISELY"?! I've never seen anyone emphasizing part of a word before and it looks silly.
"A market free for me, not for thee"
@@torgman aww thanks for the critique. I'll keep it in mind. For the next 15 seconds.
@@setaside2 Good and you're welcome. Or should I write, "you're WELcome"?
@@torgman Never seen anyone take issue with how someone decides to express their frustration. That they deflect with a stupid comment to try and shame them, but only make themselves look like a total d-tard?
Oh.. Wait? This is the internet!
"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires."
~John Steinbeck
Actually a misquote, he said something similar but he did not actually say this
@@geoguy333 Please share the real quote. I usually appreciate these corrections. Although sometimes it's a moot point.
@@geoguy333 Do you have the real original quote? We're still waiting right here for you, we haven't forgotten.
@@hadara69
“Except for the field organizers of strikes, who were pretty tough monkeys and devoted, most of the so-called Communists I met were middle-class, middle-aged people playing a game of dreams. I remember a woman in easy circumstances saying to another even more affluent: ‘After the revolution even we will have more, won’t we, dear?’ Then there was another lover of proletarians who used to raise hell with Sunday picknickers on her property.
"I guess the trouble was that we didn’t have any self-admitted proletarians. Everyone was a temporarily embarrassed capitalist. Maybe the Communists so closely questioned by the investigation committees were a danger to America, but the ones I knew-at least they claimed to be Communists-couldn’t have disrupted a Sunday-school picnic. Besides they were too busy fighting among themselves.”
@@cyberspacesupersoldier
“Except for the field organizers of strikes, who were pretty tough monkeys and devoted, most of the so-called Communists I met were middle-class, middle-aged people playing a game of dreams. I remember a woman in easy circumstances saying to another even more affluent: ‘After the revolution even we will have more, won’t we, dear?’ Then there was another lover of proletarians who used to raise hell with Sunday picknickers on her property.
"I guess the trouble was that we didn’t have any self-admitted proletarians. Everyone was a temporarily embarrassed capitalist. Maybe the Communists so closely questioned by the investigation committees were a danger to America, but the ones I knew-at least they claimed to be Communists-couldn’t have disrupted a Sunday-school picnic. Besides they were too busy fighting among themselves.”
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
I could hardly watch that. It was such an awkward transition into such a blatant promotion
it's almost like uneducated internet entertainment bros are knuckle-dragging mouthbreathers who should be ignored. But instead because they're "cool savages" they get a damn near insurmountable following of stupid people. And God knows how strong stupidity is.
I don't even watch Logan Paul's fights. Just all around dud.
@@tekniqal2639 he’s a disgrace to the sport. His brother too!
I immediately started to tune the guy out the second I found out he exploited a corpse for clout.
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.
What "big Taxi"? I guess, 90% of German Taxi companies are small with less than 50 employees. Avoiding competition is always a good thing, if the competition only works under conditions of heavy exploitation. Luckily we have laws against this that shield us from most of this exploitative American crap (Uber, Lyft, Walmart). If only we could bully also Amazon out of Germany...
@@frombelow6715 Yeah, exactly, but at the time I just had no idea how the entire Taxi and public transport system worked in detail. I thought that Taxi was essentially one company that employed some kind of regional franchising system.
However the situation surrounding how Taxi companies operate with the help of their lobby is insane. Just look at the new Mobilitäts- und Personenbeförderungsgesetz that passed in March. The state built Taxi monopoly is completely unacceptable. They essentially didn't have to change anything in 100 years until myTaxi happened.
The best thing would be to just to completely decommodify ÖPNV, including Taxis, and make it accessible to everyone at no cost. The half- assery with the Deutsche Bahn is so ridiculous and inefficient it hemorrhages money left and right that could be used elsewhere.
@@ThePhilNews You will not get any disagreement from me. The semi-privatization of the Bahn was nonsense.
@@MyReviews_karkan We're developed. We developed into a system where money makes the rules.
@@MyReviews_karkan You can't call the USA a jungle. There might not be a word to describe what this country is yet....in English or German. But it ain't good.
FTR, I was stationed in Germany, US Army, from 1987-1989. *Deutschland Rocks!*👏👏🇩🇪🇩🇪👏👏👏
When companies can essentially buy legislation like this, we do not live in a democracy or a republic, we live in a corporatocracy.
The new Robber Barons, sitting on their Monopolies so powerful that they can literally buy law.
it's feudalism 2: the property owners at the top, middle class renters in the middle, and dying working poverty at the bottom
Plutocracy.
Fun fact: corporatocracy directly translates to a little known Italian word: fascism.
@@misterprince912 they're not the same thing, unless you're a simpleton.
Getting a Doordash ad in the middle of this was top-tier shenaniganery.
Just Judge Dredd levels of irony.
ublock origin. block all ads.
I got a PragerU ad watching this video. No joke.
@@manuelsalinas5705 lmao
Prop 22 was a huge step back for workers in CA.
I have a brilliant idea: do not work for those companies. It is prostitution.
@@wnklee6878 I wish it was that simple.
@@wnklee6878 For those who have better options agreed. A better idea: if you work for them, unionize and push for better protections.
Everywhere
@@wnklee6878 Sex work is work, but you're incredibly close to the point a lot of leftists advocate. Saw a great meme about it recently
Gravel Institute makes videos explaining things that actually impact ordinary people's lives. PragerU makes 7 videos a week whining about cancel culture
Prager U: The trans communist agenda is coming to your neighborhood!!1!
Gravel U: You as a worker should care about worker rights and see how big corporations are trying to undermine you every step of the way.
@@nikste23 b-but, what about Mr. Potato Head? Think of the children!
@Ariel Sasson ffs they invited the former Boeing CEO, a MONTH after the 737 MAX incidents, to whine about how he was a victim of cancel culture.
@@nikste23 blues clues is teaching ur kids to be trans! wahh-wahhh - ben shapiro
Because the left cares while the right fears.
as someone who drives doordash to pay the bills this is really important awareness yall are putting out there, thanks
OMG URE BASED
Holy crap I didn't think you would be here
@@envadeh always have been
hey look dream expose guy is here.
nice
"There's tons of money on both sides"? BOTH SIDES? LABOR AND CAPITAL? TONS OF MONEY!?!?! Can't believe this guy.
"If that's the way you want to look at it... that's fair" Lol what other way is there to look at it? I'm sad he didn't put up a bigger fight trying to weasel out of that absurd equivalency, but it seems like your average ideology-free American voter equates an even temperament with correctness, so it was probably the right move
The fact that the lobbies are so goddam powerful is downright terrifying
@@nickarjoma5350 that is not the.. Whatever i really don't want to explain what is power relations to another smooth brain on the internet.
@@nickarjoma5350 It was lobbyists that got the bill introduced, and a corporate disinformation campaign that convinced voters that it would protect jobs. Yes, voters bear some responsibility, but let's not pretend that corporate money wasn't heavily involved.
@@pygmalion8952 Now think twice, ppl you encounter on the internet with that kind of mentality will be voting too and they outnumber you every single time!
@@nickarjoma5350 just blame the poor, got it bro! instead of holding the rich and powerful accountable it's all their fault! SO SMART!
@@nickarjoma5350 Well lobbying should be made illegal altogether
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")
people are ignorant and will pay the price for it.
@@emhu2594 People's ignorance isn't their fault when their information comes from whoever has the most money
@@thesoupin8or673 I think we can still hold people responsible in this day and age. Everyone's angry about money in politics, and then they fall for this sh*t? Enough is enough.
@@strawberrychaos73 Good point, their lobbying failed, and this was a case of them buying influence with the voters. Still, feels schemey to me that the companies could buy advertising space making false claims about the law and also pressure drivers and users to vote for it using the app and the stuff in the bags
@@strawberrychaos73 who to blame though since selfishness and greedy has already been the key driving power of the society for so long.
A company using the word _flexibility_ should always ring alarm bells.
The game isn't just rigged, you're not even able to play.
*controller unplugged*
Yeah, because we're the ones being played.
It's basically monopoly but you only get 100 dollars while the other person gets multiple pieces and half the money from the box.
@4one14 Yes, exactly, we're all pawns or other playing pieces being played by the rich.
@4one14 The rich get rich and richer through exploitation by stealing from, swindling, tricking/deceiving, bribing, and extorting/coercing us.
This really sets a terrifying precedent, other companies will inevitably start lobbying for "exceptions" to pretty much mold labor laws to their convenience. It really is sickening that they can just throw money into it and basically get away with whatever they want. It is time for workers to rise up for their rights. No one else will.
They've been doing that forever...take a deep dive into federal and state tax laws and just about everything in them have exceptions carved out and there are exceptions to the exceptions. Even from a general accounting standpoint, Boeing is allowed their own special accounting methods that were created and allowed just for them.
The game isn't just rigged, you're not even able to play.
The terrifying thing is, that you do not realize that they do not have to start. They already do, always have, and this is why many people are against regulations like the bill No 5 altogether. Because they end up destroying the small businesses, and big ones always figure out how to get an exception. This solidifies the power of big corporation, turns capitalism into oligarchy and increases wealth inequalities.
Great moments in unintended consequences.
Using contractors is going to be the new way of doing business just like the military.
@@mindlessmonk3322 already is.
A huge step back for workers in Cali
Not even three minutes in and I'm already furious. God it's hard to live in America right now
Yes it is. But the tide is turning, and all their money won't save them from that.
Nah, only if you're not rich. The rich are the only people who matter. The rest of society exists to serve the rich. In fact, you can tell how good a country is by how it treats its rich people.
People going bankrupt and dying from treatable diseases is fine if it means a larger annual bonus for the executives of for-profit health insurance companies.
Millions of people working three or four part-time jobs in order to afford their hovel of an apartment is fine if it means that the CEOs of those companies can afford another multi-million dollar mansion.
Someone getting injured or sick at work and then being fired for taking too much unpaid time off for treatment and losing their access to medical care is fine if it means that the shareholders of the company they work for get an extra penny-per-share on their quarterly stock dividend.
We made them
Our labor not capitalism made these mf
How bout now?😒
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.
you mean the courts that got stacked with goons for hire? the courts that let texas bullshit on abortion stand, even through it is unconstitutional?
yes they should... but i dont trust that they will
Thank God, they have
@@SharienGaming read about it. A federal court declared Prop 22 unconstitutional.
@@Nimish204 thats good to hear - at least some things still seem to work
@@SharienGaming factual error: it wasn't a federal court but a California local court.
These companies know we're desperate enough to work these poverty jobs because we don't have a living wage in regular full time employment. The people taking all the risks should be receiving the reward. This type of labor suppression should be criminal.
Tip your service workers.
Actually you could just switch to a new job while someone who starts a business is taking a huge risk, they can lose everything. All I do is drive lmao
This makes my stomach turn. What kind of "freedom" are we really living with, here.
Keep an eye on the University of California system’s union busting efforts since the graduate students just filed for unionization.
The whole "independent contractor" crap is exactly how the WWF/WWE manages to screw almost every wrestler that works for them. It's applicable in some instances but this is insane.
I didn't know about the 7/8ths majority rule in prop 22. It's worse than I could have imagined.
There should be more coverage about that point - and how is it even legal? Why stop at 7/8ths? Why not require 100% and the governor to dance a jig?
@@shehandesilva7530 yeah, that is 'unconstitional', and the entire law needs to struck down
We are living in a dystopian nightmare that has to end
@@andrewzcolvin I mean, they certainly seem to be really interested in making space more livable all of a sudden.
@@joshuafane7324 Great idea, let's take ALL the billionaires and ship them to Mars. Perfect. Let's get the rocket ready today
The whole 'seven eighths majority to repeal this' clause is insane.
I hope its so insane its unconstitutional. They have reached to far and these efforts have to be stopped immediately. A law that passed 6/4 should never be able to change voting rules that much.
The only thing innovative about these tech companies is how effective they are at "disrupting" labour laws
I hope the Gravel Institute continues to push HARD against these zombie companies.💯
Trust me, they’ll NEVER run out of material.😁
This is literally a propaganda piece lol. Imagine campaigning for lower pay.. literally wanting to be a wageslave instead of doing gig work wtaf
@@brianlauren5618, nah. This isn’t “propaganda”, in the traditional sense.😐
The workers want to work. They just want to be paid better for that work.💯
@@magnummax78
If they want to get payed more then why are they voting to receive minimum wage lol?
@@Oignion
Wtf are you talking about that makes no sense
At this point the United States isn’t even a democracy
your vote still has some power.
That's the problem with bourgeois democracy. The kings & queens never went away. They just changed their titles to 'entrepreneur' & 'investor'.
@@zwiebelface185 not if you aren't from the US
Never has been
We are a republic. Democracy doesn't have an electoral college
got an ad for “the benefits of ride sharing/ why i do ride sharing”, corporation’s aren’t even trying to hide anymore lol
I drove Lyft part-time for about 18 months and got slammed with a huge tax bill at the end of the year. When you factor in paying for my own gas and wear/tear to my car, I was making well below minimum wage. Lyft and Uber are robbing our tax coffers and our working class at the same time.
Yeeess!! The same thing happens with Wolt in Denmark. A lot of people aren't familiar with the tax rules when you're an independent and the company doesn't provide any help with this to the workers. They tell you to call the tax authorities if you have any doubts or problems. Several of my friends (usually foreigners) end up with a debt to the state because they're poorly informed on how to pay the taxes properly.
Last time I was this early, unions were winning us safer working conditions and weekends.
8:56 Anyone else find it kinda ironic that even though prop 22 was supposed to ‘save jobs’ it actually encouraged a whole supporter market chain to fire every employee, and replace them with contractors? Wonder what those knew ‘independent contractors’ have to say after being forced to lose their benefits?
When Uber was caught stealing tips, I knew to never trust that they would ever have the driver's best interests in mind on anything.
PSA - Join a union! It barely costs anything and it helps everyone, especially you!
When I find one willing to do more than collect dues, I will.
Last time I was this early Mike gravel was part of a Mike rock
Still the greatest political ad of all time.
Whats Mike Rock?
@@DC-wg1cr ua-cam.com/video/0rZdAB4V_j8/v-deo.html
I don't live in California. I'm out in deep east Texas... If this proposition were to be proposed here, i fear it would be passed without opposition at all...
We must educate others and resist those who exploit the people.
Of course my parents voted for it. "If it helps the company, everyone will benefit!" :/
I cannot understand people who think companies have our best interests in mind
There needs to be a mass investment in engaging and detailed political coverage. California should invest massively in public broadcasting.
Sblcray as face
In the New York city area we have PBS, funded almost in whole by regular viewers in small amounts. I LOVE it!
@@thetoad.1251 yeah im a big fan of PBS but many stations have been effectively bought by Koch and Gates foundations. We need massive state investment as well.
I'm glad to see the Gravel Institute move beyond the PragerU format and do reporting.
I live in California and I was shocked when this passed. The lack of education combined with the ad spamming about this law shocked me. These companies spent hundreds of millions of dollars on this.
One of the Rockefellers of our generation talking about how he wants money out of politics made me snort
Sounds like it's time to bring out the chippitty chop.
Chippity chop you'd best stop
hippity hoppity we're taking your property
@@chriss780 for the record I'm a firm believer that we should dangle the rich over a pool of bloody sharks until they agree to relinquish their rights to property.
Just sayin.
PragerU: just trust this one person saying stuff for 3 minutes
Gravel institute: evidence, interviews, sources, etc.
Logan Paul boosting this video by having his face in the thumbnail is the most that he's ever contributed to society
You really should put subtitles on these to make them accessible for the deaf, hoh, and those with auditory processing disorders.
@@dedede5586 ok good
And it's always *really* small and sneaky changes like this. One step at a time, they make it harder for people to grow, let alone live.
This is why prop 5 should have created a new classification that gave gig workers the freedom of being a contractor with all the benefits of being an employee.
honestly, this highlights why having medicare for all needs to be a thing. One of the primary concerns with being a gig worker is that their employer doesn't provide healthcare and without going through your employer, health insurance is too expensive for basically anyone. And I can kind of see the other side of it. As an employer, if I only hired someone to do a small amount of work for me, I don't want to be on the hook for their healthcare. So healthcare really should not be tied to your job.
I remember when prop 22 passed. Still pisses me off to this day.
The basic problem is that Lyft/Uber drivers act as scabs for the taxi industry. I'm betting that cab companies have to pay their driver's a certain wage and provide benefits. The ENTIRE business model for these gig companies is to use scabs to undermine the taxi industry. The bill that Prop 22 is trying to get around essentially gave gig drivers the same protection as union workers. Uber and Lyft are trying to bust this "union".
Let's get this trending, more people need to know the truth
Jesus I had no idea this was a thing. Thanks Gravel institute.
The language of the CEO seems to emphasize “individualism over cooperation”
While profiting off of an internet backbone, roads and worker subsidies paid for by tax dollars. Such individualists they are!
Corporations bribing lawmakers should be prohibited.
Didn't finish it but I already know it's a banger! ❤
typical communist
@@s0lid_sno0ks And you don't know what communism is I see
@@s0lid_sno0ks Define Communism?
with Gravel I like first watch later.
it's simple: the Gravel Institute uploads a video, I watch it.
It always makes me sick how easily people can get fooled and brainwashed by corporations. They are so unwilling to do research into things and take any info that is thrown at them like this at face value. I am glad you guys highlight this.
When a company tells you what to vote for, it's always in their favor, not yours.
Bae wake up. Gravel institute made a new video
I was so pissed off when this proposition passed. I had some hope that it would fail come election day but it was obvious that all the big money was going to prevail in the end. If only Dems had actually cared enough to inform the public on why this was an ass-backwards piece of legislation that would only give more control to greedy corporations and take away from all the rights we had fought for as a labor force over the years. This is why we need unions to make a comeback.
People need to learn this. Whenever main media ads pushes something, go the other way!
Uber drivers should leave and try joining the drivers coop currently based in NYC or start a west coast equivalent
Funny how know one knew what prop 22 really was.
They edit out the people who do know about it.
I understood what as happening and voted no on prop. 22. I’m disabled and live with a chronic illness with severe pain. I still found time to research the proposition and vote accordingly in tying to strengthen worker’s rights. I can barely walk and pass out in exhaustion and pain on a regular basis- what are Americans doing? I know we work a lot as a nation but damn.
REST IN POWER, MIKE GRAVEL.
The man, the myth, the legend.
We won’t soon forget your radical truth telling.
I would think the law attacking free speech would be the most “dangerous” but this is pretty bad too.
We Californians need to repeal this batshit crazy law immediately!
The fact that Uber and Lyft was pushing this should have in and of itself prompted people to vote no.
thank you Gravel Institute for countering big money propaganda! Workers rights are human rights!
Can you please make a video debunking the notion that poor people are lazy?
I told all of my family about this exploitative law. They voted against it yet the rest of the state did not. This type of law scares me because i fear many jobs will transition to "contractors."
"Prop 22 was advertised to give you all these new benefits when the law was actually going to take them away" so they lied. They straight-up lied.
What a sickening reality we live in
Whew. This is depressing.
Babe wake up
New gravelU video just dropped
The only effect of classifying uber drivers as employees is that they get employment protections.
As it currently stands, they are employees by the letter of the law, but they get no protections.
Rules like 'you aren't allowed to have a gun to protect yourself' make uber drivers employees, not independent contractors. Likewise forcing them to put stickers on their car and other things.
You can't tell an independent contractor how to do their job. You can only expect that they get the job done.
This is basically why I 100% endorse a media decoding and analysis curriculum in schools. I think it's really important that the common person has the tools to critically assess and contextualise what "corporate relatability" speak actually equates to.
Land of opportunities.. for the corporation owners
In EVERY encounter, the colonizer / capitalist shames his invented devil.
During this video an Instacart ad popped up encouraging people to become Instacart drivers right now!
Instacart driver here. I lived this moment.
Glad that the UK is ahead of California in how it tackles these gig monopoly firms.
The irony is that actual independent contractors like me are now losing work, because business partners are being forced to treat us as employees rather than contractors. Teaching ukulele for an hour is NOT the same as working 40+ hours a week at Target. This is beyond ridiculous.
I couldn't agree more. AB5 was a mistake. And, AB5 was the catalyst that encouraged companies to get Prop 22 on the ballot, spend $90M+, then win.
A quote I frequently hear from my mom that applies to the yes prop 22 campaign: "In the UK this would be called false advertising and it would be illegal!!!"
Must be nice.
Thank you for this. The people who lied about this need to pay. We need to make sure they pay for this, and that this can NEVER happen again.
And they call america a democracy
Would love to see more vids like this with other bills, such as the wave of anti-protest bills that not only make it legal for people to run over protestors with their vehicles, but in MN where police brutality and oil pipelines get opposition from PoC and indigenous groups, police can orchestrate charges on anyone protesting in such a way a protestor's first amendment and voting rights are at risk.
Solidarity from Germany !
These companies see their workers as nothing more than pieces of equipment.
Joe Rogan: How is that legal?
Bernie Sanders: They write the laws, Joe.
this is why fascism is illegal in most countries.
Lol I read that in Bernie's voice
California: is called the biggest state
Alaska: excuse me
Ever heard of Texas?
@@thomasmacisaac1503 Alaska is almost 3 times the size of Texas. Texas is in second place though.
California is biggest in terms of population and economy, its the 3rd biggest by land area.
@@kitfox92 California is I believe still one of the five or six largest economies on the planet hands down.
My favorite gravel institute video so far, not surface level, it got into the nitty gritty
The service this channel does is invaluable