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I feel there is a strong argument to decouple social security and benefits from employment; the current legislation feels like a bad model design. I am confide

I feel there is a strong argument to decouple social security and benefits from employment; the current legislation feels like a bad model design. I am confident that when it was first conceived, people sought to do well for individuals. Now, a month doesn't go by without a similar dispute affecting a new industry. The argument is always between individuals that want to become employees, and individuals that want to stay as contractors. It is a shame that among our political candidate options nobody is really rethinking the system with an engineering mindset. To even begin to grasp the current model and its implications feels like jumping into a legacy project without hope, and that isn't right. It should be simpler.

djsumdog 7y ago
Health insurance is still hopelessly broken. A "gig economy" cannot work with such fundamentally broken services. I wrote about this a while back, having both worked in health insurance and having lived in other countries: https://battlepenguin.com/politics/returning-to-america-and-the-unaffordable-care-act/ https://battlepenguin.com/politics/returning-to-america-and-... I do not like the private model at all, but at a minimum, I agree with you and I think the ACA would have only worked if it forced employers to give employees vouchers to then have everyone buy insurance from a common marketplace. Obama's promise that people could keep their existing insurance was a terrible idea. It does keep people in America perpetually working. No one can afford to really take time off for themselves even if they have the savings, because if they're not working enough hours to get health care and get sick, that's it. You're fucked. You have to use that other American Healthcare site: Gofundme.