Cory Doctorow<p><a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/KingRichardsFaire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KingRichardsFaire</span></a> is the largest <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/renfaire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>renfaire</span></a> in New England, and its owner, <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/DickShapiro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DickShapiro</span></a>, extracts a reported $400k/day - a sum that is only possible thanks to systematic and illegal worker misclassification, which lets him pay performers sub-minimum wages and deny them benefits:</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/172267v/kings_faire_inc_aim%C3%A9e_bonnie_shapiro_nets_over/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">reddit.com/r/boston/comments/1</span><span class="invisible">72267v/kings_faire_inc_aim%C3%A9e_bonnie_shapiro_nets_over/</span></a></p><p>--</p><p>If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:</p><p><a href="https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/25/huzzah/#bad-king-richard" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pluralistic.net/2023/10/25/huz</span><span class="invisible">zah/#bad-king-richard</span></a></p><p>1/</p>