[bpodgursky]

The FTC is empowered by congress with the mandate of ensuring "consumer protection", so if they want to make a land-grab and expand their mandate, they have to twist the definition somehow to make their legal authority nominally cover it.

[pessimizer]

Neither employees nor customers. I guess the underhanded fiction that is being pushed on us is that every gigworker is an employer.

If you get to be a small businessman due to your control over your own body, what is an employee again? Last I heard, employees also had control over their own bodies.

What is an employee?

[tempie_deleteme]

a watered down version of a slave... the upside is that all the 'onwer class' can swap employees in an out. e.g. if the company is a carriage, the employees are the road for it. no longer does every carriage build their own road. in this sense the companies swap employes