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How do you prevent scabs when work is decentralized?

hinkley 7y ago
Referrals still count for a lot in software. So the tricky bit will be that if the caliber of workers in your guild (or whatever you wish to call it) is below average, then you have to make it up in volume. If it's high, then you will get a feedback loop.
DoreenMichele 7y ago
I have no idea, but I don't think you need perfect control over everything. The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers. -- Princess Leia I think we just need to work out what is a reasonable rate and the expectation that gig work should be a means to make a living wage for people who do it and not just for some sliver of the people who do it, but for most people who do it. I'm okay with there being a learning curve and yadda, but it shouldn't be a situation where only some really tiny fraction of people have any hope of making it and then they have to live in terror of the rules changing overnight on them and killing their livelihood. Part of the value of labor movements is just setting the expectations for both sides that "You need to pay X amount for this." A lot of stuff we do is basically culturally determined and labor movements help shape culture and cultural expectations and so forth. So I don't think details like that are necessarily important. Sometimes they are, but sometimes they aren't. And sometimes they can be a real threat but don't have to be if you have your priorities straight. I don't care how we get there, I just would like to see gig work become something with a reputation as legitimate work that should reasonably support you if you meet some reasonable standard of quality and put in some reasonable number of hours. I think we need to ditch this idea that gig work is simply slave labor and is unfixable and needs to be converted to regular employment because that's the model we are familiar with and know how to package up in a way that works reasonably well for both sides.
LanceH 7y ago
How do you prevent willing workers from working?

Referrals still count for a lot in software. So the tricky bit will be that if the caliber of workers in your guild (or whatever you wish to call it) is below average, then you have to make it up in volume. If it's high, then you will get a feedback loop.

DoreenMichele 7y ago

I have no idea, but I don't think you need perfect control over everything. The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers. -- Princess Leia I think we just need to work out what is a reasonable rate and the expectation that gig work should be a means to make a living wage for people who do it and not just for some sliver of the people who do it, but for most people who do it. I'm okay with there being a learning curve and yadda, but it shouldn't be a situation where only some really tiny fraction of people have any hope of making it and then they have to live in terror of the rules changing overnight on them and killing their livelihood. Part of the value of labor movements is just setting the expectations for both sides that "You need to pay X amount for this." A lot of stuff we do is basically culturally determined and labor movements help shape culture and cultural expectations and so forth. So I don't think details like that are necessarily important. Sometimes they are, but sometimes they aren't. And sometimes they can be a real threat but don't have to be if you have your priorities straight. I don't care how we get there, I just would like to see gig work become something with a reputation as legitimate work that should reasonably support you if you meet some reasonable standard of quality and put in some reasonable number of hours. I think we need to ditch this idea that gig work is simply slave labor and is unfixable and needs to be converted to regular employment because that's the model we are familiar with and know how to package up in a way that works reasonably well for both sides.

LanceH 7y ago

How do you prevent willing workers from working?