I’m not seeing any serious suggestions of that there. Looks more like hypothetical talk.
I actually had a similar thought to that yesterday. Could moderators be classified as employees for the work they do?
I think you would have a massive uphill struggle to argue Reddit’s moderators are employees in court. Without that no back pay and no union.
That’s not what economists are usually talking about with discounts in this context. When talking about oil, or any commodity discount, it typically means against a baseline product. For oil you compare to the price of Brent. Think of it as the price difference between buying generic vs name brand at a grocery store.
There’s no details on the actual trade in the articlebut comparing Urals vs Brent shows it’s still trading at a roughly 20% discount today vs the ~2% discount preconflict.
I actually think the article titled misses the bigger part of the story.
I would expect increased trade between the three countries of this becomes the norm.