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I am 100% ok with using regulation to take away the ability to earn negative money.


Obviously. But are you going to do that so neatly it doesn't trigger unintended consequences? Which have the potential to make things worse.

It's easy to say "let's do X to make Y better", but it's not that simple with any real world complex system.

Look at bill AB5 for an example currently in progress and ostensibly about helping gig workers. Here's a sobering sample of second order effects:

https://twitter.com/ms_andiloveall/status/120670581104242278...

https://twitter.com/delightedbite/status/1216834042881949697


I have 0% trust in regulators ability to do this without doing more harm to workers than good




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