You don't fear their control because you have nothing to hide. Then one day you want to speak up against them, but you don't because they control your money. So you never cross them. But one day, they seek you out and order you to do something. You have to comply because they own you.
If you control your money, it's your money. If they control the money, it's their money -- you only have it as long as they let you.
That may very well be the case. Companies tend to put all sorts of things into contracts that courts would never enforce. It pays because people believe the contract is valid and abide by it.
Question is, according to whom. For example, Uber got hit with a pretty big fine in Italy because in the view of the court, the people working for Uber should be viewed as employees.
I wonder how much these causes are for worker's rights vs some politician trying to win a popularity contest by bashing these "evil tech foreign giants".
But I know nothing about pre-Uber Italian taxi regulations.
The guardian is constantly negative. It's like their job is to attack and discredit people and institutions they don't like. Often based on insinuations or flimsy or no evidence.
> Browning, unless we’re talking about burning onions, is caramelisation
No, its not. Heck, even “caramelizing” onions mostly isn’t caramelization, its Maillard-reaction browning combined with slower cooking so that the cooking is more complete, retaining less of the firm texture.
If you control your money, it's your money. If they control the money, it's their money -- you only have it as long as they let you.