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If that were true only the most desperate would choose uber/airbnb/oDesk etc. I believe that's not true, even though low-value work is cheap, the good/popular o
by return0 11y ago
If that were true only the most desperate would choose uber/airbnb/oDesk etc. I believe that's not true, even though low-value work is cheap, the good/popular ones can sell themselves at the price of their choosing. Isn't that plain free market with the flexibility of working whenever you choose, and a more productive/economic allocation of resources?
Work history is an issue, but i cannot see why it cannot be easily solved with a law that gives these workers the rights to their work history. Will these companies object to that?
- Retric 11y agoYou can't set your own rate with uber. There are also penalty's for rejecting to much work.
- Animats 11y agoWhich is why Uber drivers are employees. Uber should just accept that. They're being shut down, country by country and state by state, because of their resistance to labor law. Just since the beginning of this month, Uber has been shut down in France and two cities in Florida.
- matthewowen 11y agoUber (and other 1099 companies) don't want to do that, because their businesses are based on moving risk from the company (employing employees that they might not need) to their labor force (you can work whenever, but the amount you get paid is solely dependent on the demand that we may or may not generate for you).