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Yes and shift workers can take more shifts, or fewer shifts, in many situations. That doesn't make them entrepreneurs. There's a distinction between income and
by CPLX 11y ago
Yes and shift workers can take more shifts, or fewer shifts, in many situations. That doesn't make them entrepreneurs. There's a distinction between income and profit from a business, and simply deciding to work more or less often isn't an entrepreneurial activity.
- pbreit 11y agoBut with Uber/Lyft, there's a lot more ingenuity involved in deciding when, where and how to work. It's not just a simple question of working longer hours.
- justincormack 11y agoI dont think that a factory making piecework pricing more complicated would change the legal employment situation though.
- pbreit 11y agoFactory workers typically have shift requirements. Uber drivers don't even have to work at all.
- CPLX 11y agoIt's essentially the difference between hourly work and piece work. Making things into piece work and trying to get out of labor laws is an old trick that the authorities have thought of already.