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Nobody wants to end freedom of contract. We want to end the abuse of pseudo-contracting as a way for Megacorps to skirt their responsibilitirs as employers. Gi

Nobody wants to end freedom of contract. We want to end the abuse of pseudo-contracting as a way for Megacorps to skirt their responsibilitirs as employers. Gig workers are misslabelled as contractors. They are not. It's a perversion of the idea. All your arguments can be sued against minimum wage as well, but minimum wage increase have shown positive effects every time. Your arguments can also be used to justify slavery. Where do you think this society is headed? A bunch of gig workers scrapping the bottle of the barrel, with no insurances, no job safety, bad working conditions, but doing all the jobs servicing us fat middle class programmers, who think these people can't earn more because then we would have to pay a shopping fee on Amazon? You and I work to afford a house and a vacation. Others work to afford basic survival. And we deny them improved working conditions because of why? And gig working is only one part of the problem. Abuse if sub-contracting achieves the same, and missing worker protection laws even allow companies to mistreat their actual employees. There is no need for this economic brutality. There is enough for everyone, the super rich can even stay super rich once we improve the situation of the people on the other end of the scale.

hellojesus 5y ago
Restricting voluntary transactions is congruent to ending freedom of contract. If a gig worker is voluntarily accepting to work the gig, why should anyone come in and force their hand in what they're willing to do? It is absolutely not the same as slavery because we are talking about voluntary transactions. Minimum wage increases have shown positive effects every time? Not so fast. For those that are able to keep their jobs, yes. Those people earn higher wages for the same work. However, there are always people that lose employment entirely when minimum wage increases are legislated because they either can't provide enough utility to justify the cost from the businesses' pov or the business fires them to keep total overhead lower so they don't have to pass the costs onto the customers, which would put them at a competitive disadvantage. In a free society, people should be allowed to make any voluntary transaction so long as it does not infringe upon the rights of others.

hellojesus 5y ago

Restricting voluntary transactions is congruent to ending freedom of contract. If a gig worker is voluntarily accepting to work the gig, why should anyone come in and force their hand in what they're willing to do? It is absolutely not the same as slavery because we are talking about voluntary transactions. Minimum wage increases have shown positive effects every time? Not so fast. For those that are able to keep their jobs, yes. Those people earn higher wages for the same work. However, there are always people that lose employment entirely when minimum wage increases are legislated because they either can't provide enough utility to justify the cost from the businesses' pov or the business fires them to keep total overhead lower so they don't have to pass the costs onto the customers, which would put them at a competitive disadvantage. In a free society, people should be allowed to make any voluntary transaction so long as it does not infringe upon the rights of others.