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Or maybe 58% percent of people, including most Uber drivers, recognize that AB5 was a terrible bill. At best, it could only concentrate rides to a smaller pool of drivers. Money in politics just buys awareness. People aren't so suggestible that their minds will change with a 10-second ad.

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> People aren't so suggestible that their minds will change with a 10-second ad.

Your assertion goes against one century of verified practice in the field of advertisement. Several 10-second ads are exactly what can suggest people and change their minds about a particular topic.

Yeah, absolutely baffled at that line. That's what political campaigns literally spend billions on.

> People aren't so suggestible that their minds will change with a 10-second ad.

It's truly a mystery then why Uber and Lyft spent $200M on advertising. What a colossal waste of money.

Is it? A consistent hypothesis is raising awareness. If you think everyone would agree with you, it makes sense to tell them that this thing matters.

What an absurd amount of benefit of the doubt.

You're not special for being able to "see through" Uber's "propaganda." That's just what happens when an ad doesn't resonate with you. Like I said, ads work by increasing awareness of something. As Bloomberg's $1 billion primary campaign proved, money doesn't buy votes.

Not at all - "Money buys awareness"

Charitably, Uber and Lyft were raising awareness of what was going on so that people would have a chance to do something about it.

Yeah, what idiots. Somebody should have told them that people aren't so stupid that ads could possibly work. Somebody should tell the entire ad industry, for that matter.

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