The work-supervision to prevent slackers thing is only part of the problem, and pretty small.

The biggest issue is the huge amount of money these companies pay for real estate, and how much the commercial real estate market means to the overall economy.

All of this is just sabre-rattling in an attempt to return to the pre-covid status quo, while these companies will soon be shedding their corporate office spaces to reduce their operating costs.

Taxi companies need to own the car, pay for maintenance, pay wages for the driver, insurance, etc.

Ride-sharing apps offload all of the taxi-company maintenance overhead costs to the gig-driver while only paying about 50% of the fare.

This is a malignantly intentional ignorance, and it will spread.

The Civil Rights Act was signed in 1964. That was only 60 years ago.

There are pictures of Bernie Sanders being arrested while protesting segregation. Bernie isn’t the oldest serving senator, and there are currently serving senators who have received “F” grades on their civil rights voting records, despite claiming to support civil rights.

https://www.courier-journal.com/story/opinion/2022/01/24/mitch-mcconnell-not-civil-rights-champion-he-claims-opinion/6634360001/

I think it is entirely accurate to state that America is a bigoted nation.

One of the things that drives Reddit as a social media platform is the anonymity.

Once you start tying monetization mechanisms to pay users for content, similar to YouTube or Instagram, you lose the anonymity.

Reddit is already walking the path to destroy everything that made it a different social media platform.

While also farming out the content moderation to volunteers.