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Autocracy: Rules for Survival (NY Review of Books)

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Companies that classify people as contractors unnecessarily – when they control every aspect of the delivery and experience as if they were using real W-2 employees – demean people. They really do. It's like being called horrible names, but just in a different way. The end result is the same. They feel social rejection and hurt. People remember how they think you made them feel. Being given a surprise self-employment tax bill for the privilege of driving strangers around in your own car to make ends meet feels demeaning. We need to recognize that.

We need to have a civilized, polite, reasonable, factual discussion about the future of our country, one that both recognizes the damage caused by social bigotry and recognizes the damage caused by economic insecurity and the offshoring of the proceeds of Americans' work.

Exactly what book is being reviewed here?

Americans used to believe in freedom.

God, what's happened to us?

Please do not downvote. Come and discuss. Drive-by comments and rapid-fire memes in response to Macedonian blogspam on Facebook is what got America into this mess.

Your comment is not very clear. Stories can´t be downvoted. I guess that you are asking that the story not to be flagged.

The problem is that this story is 100% political, so it's off-topic according to the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. [...] If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

And there has been a few big stories in HN about the current(last?) presidential race in USA. Usually in this kind of cases the mods allow a few exceptions, but only a few.

Also, you posted 4 of the 6 top level comments in this thread. It's bad netiquette. And the comments are not about the article, but about related political topics.

You have a duty to oppose blatant electoral manipulation, blatant DNC corruption, the failure of the DNC to present any kind of credible economic plan, and the insane obstructionism of the RNC that has caused our institutions to rot. You need to feel that. This is unamerican. If you don't elect someone based upon what they say they will do – kill the families of suspected terrorists (a form of collective punishment), destroy the fourth estate through repeated insane conspiratorial claims of a professional media conspiracy to discredit him – then reason is lost. The country is lost. People judge others by their words for a reason: they are a leading indicator of their actions. God help us.

The country cannot have the FBI interfering during early voting – a period during which 40% of votes were cast – with fact-free partisan allegations. It is unamerican. It is tragic. It must stop.

Y Combinator and Peter Thiel have a moral duty to denounce Trumpism before it's too late.

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