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California's new employment law is starting to crush freelancers
- aphextim 7y agoThis entire article summed up in one image. https://files.catbox.moe/ipv8a9.png https://files.catbox.moe/ipv8a9.png
- metalliqaz 7y ago"LaBrash can’t be certain the reason is AB 5, though he believes it is." It has been interesting to watch the coverage of this issue over the last few days. It's a good reminder that even so-called "liberal" news organizations are owned by large corporations. The results are not yet in. But the stories are already piling up about those poor, poor freelancers who can't work anymore. Oh wait a minute, of course they can work. They just have to be "on the payroll", to quote this article. Imagine the horror of getting stable pay and benefits. The guy in the beginning of this article is an employed programmer who also freelances as a cartoonist. How many of those are floating around in the market? And even still, how many jobs does he get with that gig per client? Is it really more than 35? I know HN is a notoriously Libertarian hangout, but can we at least agree that wage slavery is bad? Like it or not, the American system delivers health benefits through employment and the law has to constantly plug the loopholes that companies use to get around paying employees health benefits and living wages. Public risk but privatized reward is not sustainable or fair.
- johng 7y agoUnfortunately you can't manipulate the free market like this. We've learned it time and time again and this law has seen the unintended consequences.