The fake truck­er protests of 2022 look even more ridicu­lous through the lens of the real truck­er protests of the 1970s.

“Don’t wor­ry about it,” I said, ​“You’re nev­er ever going to use a pub­lic charger.”

OVER THE COURSE OF SEV­ER­AL MONTHS, Uber, Lyft, Instacart, Door­Dash, and Post­mates invest­ed more than $200 mil­lion in a scheme to strip their work­ers of labor pro­tec­tions guar­an­teed under Cal­i­for­nia state law.