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Monday, February 19, 2018

Anti Wage-Slavery Pro-Freedom Quotations Of The Week 1732-1734

Andrew Yang, a well-connected New York businessman who is mounting a longer-than-long-shot bid for the White House.
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“All you need is self-driving cars to destabilize society,” Mr. Yang, 43, said over lunch at a Thai restaurant in Manhattan last month, in his first interview about his campaign. In just a few years, he said, “we’re going to have a million truck drivers out of work who are 94 percent male, with an average level of education of high school or one year of college.”

“That one innovation,” he continued, “will be enough to create riots in the street. And we’re about to do the same thing to retail workers, call center workers, fast-food workers, insurance companies, accounting firms.”
His 2020 Campaign Message: The Robots Are Coming.
The Shift
By KEVIN ROOSE
NYT

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On a Saturday morning in 2013 in Brooklyn’s Dumbo neighborhood, an 18-year-old recycling worker, Luis Camarillo, was loading materials into a truck when the vehicle’s compactor crushed him. He was rushed to a hospital, where he died.

Mr. Camarillo’s death, while seemingly a freak accident, was in fact not unusual.
The Brutal Life of a Sanitation Worker
By CARL ZIMRINGFEB. 9, 2018
NYT



 A move to allow restaurants and other employers to impose tip sharing on workers, and in some cases keep the money, is under fire from labor groups.
Labor Dept. Plan Could Let the Boss Pocket the Tip  
By NOAM SCHEIBER
FEB. 4, 2018
NYT headline




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