The Times Fails AGAIN!

As one who enjoys driving and talking with people, LYFT affords me the opportunity to do both.

Earlier this year, Governor Cuomo wanted to force a bill on the Legislature, buried within the budget, to have people like me, who are considered self-employed independent contractors, lose the benefits we enjoy as ICs to follow California Law AB5 which would make us W-2 employees. Thankfully, reason prevailed at the last minute in March, when Cuomo realized too many Legislators and Senators wanted more time to study this proposal.

Now, in the midst of ginning up the economy after the Great Shutdown due to Covid, the gray old lady, yes the New York Times, wants to have this matter resolved. Apparently, those people running the Times today don’t have the first idea of how free enterprise works.

 Did any reporter interview LYFT drivers, Amazon delivery people, or DASH drivers to see how they feel about this? Apparently not, because if they did, the answer to the question would have been a resounding NO!!

Perhaps, it is time for the executives who run the Times go back to Journalism School to find out how THEY should do THEIR jobs and leave the rest of us alone to do ours.