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They're inextricably linked, though. It's always much easier to start a small business in a relatively-unregulated environment, but that's because nearly zero
by ff317 6y ago
They're inextricably linked, though. It's always much easier to start a small business in a relatively-unregulated environment, but that's because nearly zero thought or protection is being given to the drivers' or loaders' living wages, healthcare, eventual retirement, actual health (as in long-term occupational stress on the body), or even ability to be compensated for severe workplace injuries. All of the things we privileged Americans complain about in cases like Amazon's treatment of their warehouse and shipping workers are orders of magnitude worse, in practice, for most of these opportunistic workers in Ecuador.
- oftenwrong 6y agoThat's a good point. I suppose in countries like the US there is already a middle ground in play: small businesses are often exempt from certain onerous regulations.
- codeadict 6y agoI lived in Ecuador, all these people will have retirement and healthcare thru the IES(https://www.iess.gob.ec/ https://www.iess.gob.ec/), equivalent to the US Social Security. It's not a perfect system but neither is US retirement if you don't have 401k or some kind of private retirement plan, the healthcare could be slow sometimes and you spend 30 mins to an hour to see the doctor but it works.