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Everyone works on commission. If you don’t believe me, try not showing up for a few days. An employee’s stable, dependable paycheck is a comforting illusion. Wh
by gbacon 8y ago
Everyone works on commission. If you don’t believe me, try not showing up for a few days. An employee’s stable, dependable paycheck is a comforting illusion. When hungry diners abandon a certain restaurant, the cook finds herself unemployed.
Not sure whether you intended to use scare quotes around risk or asterisks for emphasis. The entrepreneur’s role is coordinating present production with future demand and placing real-money bets accordingly. That’s no freebie.
- coldtea 8y ago>Everyone works on commission. If you don’t believe me, try not showing up for a few days. You keep using this word, commission. I don't think it means what you think it means. Yes, job's are not for life, and if a business goes under, or if you don't show up, etc, you will get let off/fired. That's not the same as a "per gig" payment. >An employee’s stable, dependable paycheck is a comforting illusion. Well, in many places in the world, it's a concrete reality, protected by law. You can't get fired without notice (and in some places, serious cause), you're given several months pay if you're laid off, and you have legal right to your payment as long as you're employed whether the company has business that day or not (e.g. an off day or week at a restaurant). With a "gig economy" workers, none of these guarantees exists. They're more like freelancers with very small contracts.
- captainredbeard 8y agoFWIW, fewer businesses are started per capita in those countries and they grow slowly, too.