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Every time I think AB 5 can’t get worse, it does: capitalandmain.com/translators-wr…

If you want a lesson in how to destroy your state’s creative industries, the combination of catastrophically expensive + unreliable power + penalizing anchor clients is it.
Crossfile under:
Ride sharing companies are a social, economic, & environmental harm

Uber & Lyft are exploitive & those loopholes should absolutely be closed, but rounding up creatives into this mess is short-sighted when California’s pixie dust depends on exporting dreams.
While we’re at it, crossfile under:
Be a corporation, not a person.

Someone will figure out how to boilerplate incorporating docs (either in state or out) as companies can still be hired for infinite gigs. Because of course they can.
AB-5 is even more disturbing in the context of frequent short-notice “no power = no school” fire days.

It’s not like California is notoriously too expensive for families to survive on one income. Dismantling the flexibility of freelancing is nbd, right?
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