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I think the real problem is that you have people with no other marketable skills who are forced into becoming non-employed "workers". This whole "gig economy"
by constantcrying 2y ago
I think the real problem is that you have people with no other marketable skills who are forced into becoming non-employed "workers".
This whole "gig economy" should be illegal. Having someone work full time for a company, but not being an employee of any company, seems like a pretty obvious circumvention of labor laws.
The solution should be to force food delivery companies to employ the people doing the deliveries. Of course that will significantly drive up prices, as cost for delivery makes up a substantial part of the total costs. But to be honest food delivery is not something which needs to be as large as it is.
- ryandrake 2y agoSo, wait, you don't buy Uber and DoorDash's arguments that these gig workers are actually entrepreneurs? They're not really underpaid employees, quite the contrary: each of them are individual small business owners, powerful executives on the top of their one-man totem poles!