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Is quality of life / general happiness considered when we talk about how many jobs there are in the service industry? I know a few people who have been steadily
by Liquix 8y ago
Is quality of life / general happiness considered when we talk about how many jobs there are in the service industry? I know a few people who have been steadily employed in such industries but are unhappy and don't see any way out.
Imagine a society with two classes - an upper class creating & sustaining 'services' like horse-walking or tinder coaching, a lower class forced to choose between unemployment and being the other class's glorified servants.
We need to be looking at ways to level the playing field - provide opportunity and education to those who were not fortunate enough to be born into it. Celebrating the stability of jobs which make people feel like second class citizens feels like shrinking away from the problem.
- deogeo 8y ago> glorified servants. I think they're the opposite of glorified. A servant is someone you personally know, that your children may grow attached to, that, ideally, you feel some mutual obligation towards. Workers in the gig economy are faceless, replaceable cogs.
- coralreef 8y agoSome people see servants as faceless, replaceable cogs. Abuse of servants happens every day all over the world.
- deogeo 8y agoAnd the gig economy marketplaces expands that 'some' to 'all', since it's near-impossible to find out what's happening with any one gig worker once your brief interaction with them is over. Thanks to all that smart tech that automatically matches buyers to sellers, they probably don't even have a manager to notice they got sick. The more you reduce human contact and any chance of forming a relationship, the more cog-like workers will be treated. And reducing human contact in the name of efficiency is exactly what all those gig economy services do. Just because some servants are already abused, doesn't mean gig economy won't make it worse.