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Am I the only one who actually agrees with this law? In fact I'd go even lower to a 1:5 or 1:3 salary ratio. This way all employees become independent contracto
by KaoruAoiShiho 13y ago
Am I the only one who actually agrees with this law? In fact I'd go even lower to a 1:5 or 1:3 salary ratio. This way all employees become independent contractors who can set their own hours, they become emancipated from the corporate ladder, they're forced to develop entrepreneurial experience, network, form micro-companies that can work for multiple companies and develop enhanced specialities, have low level workers become CEOs by virtue of necessity, have less job security leading to increased competition and quality among all levels of workers preventing the big company style slide into mediocrity etc, etc.
Sounds like a much better system to me.
Edit: The analogy I see is like changing from owning your own servers to moving to a cloud/aws-like pay for use model. This sort of change reduces risk and unlocks innovation.
- kudu 13y agoOf course it's a wonderful idea, and it would be even better if it applied to contractors. I don't get the HN mindset of "He totally deserves billions of dollars, he threw together a few photo filters and created Instagram! Those poor kids can rot!"
- iterative 13y agoI don't get the statist idea that it's any of your damn business to decide who does and doesn't "deserve" a particular amount of money. Given that free markets have lead to prosperity for average people on a scale that would've been unimaginable a few short centuries ago, while people living in socialist utopias like Cuba and North Korea continue to live in extreme poverty, those who support redistributionist schemes like this are clearly the ones who want to see poor kids rot.
- philwelch 13y agoPeople don't want to be independent contractors.
- jonknee 13y agoIt's better if you're one of the very small percentage of people that want to run their own micro-company instead of just do their job. What you listed sounds like a ton of overhead (mental and otherwise) for the vast majority of jobs.
- KaoruAoiShiho 13y agoI don't agree. What we have now are people being trained to not think like entrepreneurs and view the system as scary and risky. If everyone becomes entrepreneurs, remove the social ostracization, and I think you'll find that everyone is suited for it. The mental overhead is different but not increased (obviously it's all up to the execution, and I don't really have proof for my opinion). I can see software, non-software services, and different cultural practices reduce the overhead of current contractor systems. Moreover it's naive to assume that the overhead involved in being a normal employee is any less than that of being a contractor. The office politics that most people have to deal with is asinine, and could benefit from the type of legal clarification that being a contractor would entail.
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