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Gig work and all that implies would be more tolerable in the US if we had a universal health care system and worked hard to craft policies to make housing affor
by LarryDarrell 6y ago
Gig work and all that implies would be more tolerable in the US if we had a universal health care system and worked hard to craft policies to make housing affordable (not an investment).
Until that world comes to pass, the slow but growing movement to treat gig workers as employees will only get bigger and bigger.
I doubt even in 20 years we'll have fully autonomous driving cars in every jurisdiction. If I were Uber or another company who relies on gig work to exist, I would be pouring money into lobbying for universal health care. That would ease the pressure considerably.
- dominotw 6y ago> would be pouring money into lobbying for universal health care Dara already admitted to this in recode podcast.
- LarryDarrell 6y agoThanks, I'll give it a listen!
- rhino369 6y agoWhy should we, as a country, want low paying jobs that only support people with subsidies from others? I support universal healthcare from a humanitarian perspective. But it doesn't make sense to tax everyone else so that Uber can cut labor costs.
- malandrew 6y ago> Why should we, as a country, want low paying jobs that only support people with subsidies from others? Because the alternative for the people taking those jobs is often no paying jobs where you need to subsidize the entirety of the needs of such people instead of just subsidizing what wasn't covered by the low paying job. Making low paying jobs illegal doesn't magically result in the creation of well paying jobs.