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You are assuming that this is a situation where a contractor is very similar to an employee. These only really exist as employers try to avoid employment laws.
by netcan 13y ago
You are assuming that this is a situation where a contractor is very similar to an employee. These only really exist as employers try to avoid employment laws. This is an employee, not a firm in the context of that paper.
A "real" contractor negotiates rates regularly and with different pricing models, takes work from multiple contractors, pay for their own tools etc. In some cases you genuinely have a "firm" with one client but that's rare.
The question is are these uber contractors contractors in this sense? I think they are.
- the_watcher 13y agoI didn't assume that this was similar to being an employee. I'm saying that people do make the conscious choice to be contractors over being an employee (this is empirically true, and you just named a few reasons why one might). I think Uber is absolutely a contractor model - the drivers buy their own tools (car), experiment with pricing (can work with any car sharing company, can move to areas with more demand), and take work from all the carsharing companies.
- netcan 13y agoOK I misunderstood.