The child unemployment rate in America is more than twice that of China!

That reads like a Zippy the Pinhead strip

Categorizing contract workers as employees and forbidding or limiting child labor are vastly different situations. I can only assume that this is some failed attempt at a joke.

Child labor laws prevented parents from sacrificing their children' educations to use them for immediate economic gain. This is not at all related to extending employee benefits to contract workers that set their own hours.

And gig labor laws could prevent people from sacrificing their healthcare and other benefits for immediate economic gain. Uber's, cause the drivers aren't gaining much, apparently.

> And gig labor laws could prevent people from sacrificing their healthcare and other benefits for immediate economic gain.

You make the unqualified assumption that these people had healthcare and benefits before driving for Uber. And regardless, unlike child labor these are adults that are making these decisions for themselves. They looked at their opportunities and decided that driving for Uber or Lyft was best. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that these individuals are more qualified to make their own life choices than people on the internet who know nothing about their lives.

Well, the US is a primitive country for worker's rights, so I might be wrong when I say that if they had a job they would have had benefits. And by benefits I don't mean free gym memberships, I mean guaranteed vacation days, protection from being fired at anybody's whim, etc.

Regardless, other countries have these worker protections and benefits for all jobs and Uber drivers don't have them. So Uber is a worse employer than most.

And still, people chose them you would say. Well, the problem with that is that there will always be people desperate enough, or naive enough or greedy enough to jump on opportunities. At the beginning, Uber was paying its drivers more and there were also fewer drivers.

Currently it's a predatory company. And society shouldn't tolerate such companies.

He should have asked some Republican strategists, many are on record saying their voter ID laws are meant to suppress the black vote.

He also isn't asking the black voters "the same questions" at all.

The black voters were saying every black person they know had photo ID and that instituting photo ID requirements would not prevent blacks from voting.

Surely you're not arguing that adults have the same degree of agency and consent as children.

this is exactly what some people are arguing about. they treat other people like children, and then wonder why they aren't getting votes.