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Concerns are misplaced for many reasons. 1) no supervision 2) no dependency on any particular employer 3) ability to choose what to work on 4) ability to ch
by leot 13y ago
Concerns are misplaced for many reasons.
1) no supervision
2) no dependency on any particular employer
3) ability to choose what to work on
4) ability to choose own hours
5) intrinsic trade-off between job compensation and the speed at which the job will be completed
6) no requirement that the worker be doing the task exclusively -- the could be watching TV, or chatting with a friend, or playing a video game
7) No possibility of employer coercion
Here's another scenario: say you were paid to watch ads. Should that be subject to minimum wage laws? Well, clearly not: we're routinely paid $0 for the ads we're subjected to.
- e12e 13y agoI'm not sure it's accurate to say that we're not paid to watch ads -- we're not paid a salary -- but often we're given something else. Eg: substantially reduced prices on magazines, newspapers, tv etc (compared to if the sellers were to attempt to maintain a similar margin without ads). Personally I'm in favour of higher prices and less ads and product placement -- but to say that we're not paid to watch ads sounds a little disingenuous (while technically true).