[jerzyt]

Google is not paying people to provide a service. They are paying a company. I sympathize with the people who are underpaid, but their beef should be with their employers not with Google, even though as another commenter stated: Google is outsourcing non-compliance. On a related note, if people working below the minimum wage are flying to protest at Google headquarters, someone is paying their airfare. Doesn't look like a spontaneous act to me.

[klyrs]

We go after Apple when Foxconn mistreats its employees. When you go after the intermediary, they'll go down and another will rise up to take its place -- and thanks to limited liability, it'll often be the same executives running a different company. When you go to the top, you have a chance at improving the situation.

[brmgb]

Ah, yes, everything is suddenly fine when you put a screen like a company in front of it. It's not tax evasion, sir, it's a business relationship with a company in the British Virgin Island.

Also, how dare they organise for better pay? It must be a conspiracy. The riff raff really should know their place.

Let them eat cake.

[smadge]

> if people working below the minimum wage are flying to protest at Google headquarters, someone is paying their airfare. Doesn't look like a spontaneous act to me.

The raters who spoke and delivered the petition are members of Alphabet Workers Union.