Don't use "rideshare" as your sample table

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by whichever - opened

When things enter the engineering zone, politics and social dilemmas are papered over and normalized. When a subject matter interacts with the world through API calls or RDBMS, the people administering and maintaining those interfaces disregard the moral valence of the subject matter. This is bad. Rideshare is a wage-theft story and it has been for about 15 years. It's not acceptable that you elide the history by making it into a shrug of the shoulders and just something to query from as though there are no human beings involved. You should immediately stop this by getting rid of "rideshare" as your demo table and replace it with something that isn't a hellscape of exploitative corporate behavior. There's no particular reason why your baseline concept of how to be apolitical and just do a technical subject with no social content needs to --- Surprise! --- actually be rightwing through normalizing a disruption project based on a bogus, untenable picture of entrepreneurs that just happens to be really great for the corporations cramming that small-business conception on others. You can do the opposite and still do a technical subject just as well. You can pick something that ACTUALLY has no "controversy" and still do a technical subject just as well.

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