No Stinking Representation (Except in the App’s Terms)
Apparently the Boston Harbor tantrum didn’t end—it just got rebranded into Amazon Flex. The app informs me I’m “represented” because I clicked agree, and the same old “taxation without representation” complaint arrives wearing a different outfit: a tax bill that (supposedly) wants “32% of net self-employment income,” plus “funding my bills” via the part where I burn my own gas to deliver their profits. No stinking representation… except in the app’s Terms, apparently.
Back then, colonists couldn’t vote on the tax. Today, I still can’t meaningfully negotiate the profit engine—I just accept the route, get billed, and then get told my “choice” was the checkbox. Same revolution, just now it’s delivered: no seat at the table, only the privilege of paying for the system while it calls that “participation.”