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It kind of reflects Americans misconception that salaried work is salvation. 15 years ago, a “non-servant” making minimum wage would drive my tv in a truck to
by RC_ITR 5y ago
It kind of reflects Americans misconception that salaried work is salvation.
15 years ago, a “non-servant” making minimum wage would drive my tv in a truck to a store, another non-servant would put it on a shelf, and then a final non-servant would check me out. No one then considered any of them to be “servants” because they were “employees”.
Now someone can be paid a similar amount to those “employees” salaries to bring food to me. The transaction is structured in a way that I pay directly for their labor and people get to have a moral panic about it.
- sangnoir 5y ago> I pay directly for their labor and people get to have a moral panic about it. There'd be a lot less panicking if health insurance (and other employee benefits) were resolved in the new normal. These costs have been externalized, and the Servant-as-a-Service companies are pocketing the difference: there's nothing direct about your payments.
- RC_ITR 5y agoYeah, hourly retail workers, famous for their non-wage benefits. Sad that on-demand work stripped all those laborers of the great healthcare coverage they were receiving before Listen I agree low end work is fucked in the US. That's why it's my personal rule to tip 25% of GMV or $7 per order on these services (whichever is more, and I recommend every person who reads this adopt a similar rule no matter how painful it is), but please spare me with the 'Servant-as-a-Service' line - the problem is society and its participants, not the shape an individual job takes.