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People are voting for it by doing it. The work is absolutely exploding. Shipt cannot hire fast enough. They are handing out thousand dollar bonuses left and rig
by whalesalad 6y ago
People are voting for it by doing it. The work is absolutely exploding. Shipt cannot hire fast enough. They are handing out thousand dollar bonuses left and right. And I am in Metro Detroit, not a big area by any means.
- toomuchtodo 6y agoBy voting for it, I mean codifying into law labor policies that strongly disadvantage workers (Prop 22). We’re supposedly a first world country; we should act like it with regards to labor regulation.
- Ericson2314 6y agoFrom a macro-economic perspective there is two very different "gig economies" - utopian: recognition that humans cannot do sustained productivity, higher experts in short bursts capture peak productivity, everyone works less overall - dystopian: automation makes more surplus labor, which reduces the incentive of further automation by hiring low productivity but dirt cheap labor. If everyone does this, and it isn't worth it to maintain yesterday's automation, overall productivity can go down. Unfortunately Americansn live in the second one. We are suburban squatters in the rotting ruins of our past greatness.