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Gig work and Airbnb saved my life and kept family off street. I got injured and disability decided to play hard ball. Working whatever hours I could be functi
by nullserver 6y ago
Gig work and Airbnb saved my life and kept family off street.
I got injured and disability decided to play hard ball.
Working whatever hours I could be functional and being able to stop and rest, or wait for medication side effects to ease off. These are the only thing that kept us off the street.
- lwkl 6y agoThat's great but gig work is possible without false self-employment. Most European countries have laws for this. That's why you see articles like this. Eat operates similar to Uber Eats here while paying a higher wage than Uber Eats after they payed social security and provide a bike. Meanwhile Uber eats drivers have to pay social security and their vehicle from a lower wage. The social security is what keeps them off the street in the case they are out of work or disabled. Why are some people defending companies that try to go around existing labor laws by claiming their employees are different contractors just because everything is done over an app? Luckily our laws are relatively clear and the courts will probably keep on ruling against Uber.
- nullserver 6y agoIf you can get on disability. I was in bed 16 hours a day nearly blind and extreme agony for nearly a year. Disability laughed at me. Said I had a desk job so it was fine, all I had to do was sit their.
- bigiain 6y agoI'm glad that worked out for you, but having VC backed SV Unicorns become _the_ social safety net seems very wrong to me.
- Jochim 6y agoI'm glad you managed to stay afloat through gig work but this example really seems to point out that it's prevalence is due to failing social systems (job market/safety nets) driving people into insecure forms of work.