We're destroying society, one working norm at a time. This is ludicrous, and the lack of regulatory oversight of this kind of vampire game, which winds up ripping off the food source, and the delivery agent in some wierd game of capitalism is a huge black mark on our generations time.
I cannot think of a reason to want to take work in the developed west, and casually turn it into this kind of serfdom. Every time I see gig economy workers in developing world economies, I think about this, and how immoral it is to uplift their drudgery and replace it into our context like there is no downside.
Has anyone else here read "Down and out in Paris & London" which is Orwell's record of his time in the Paris restaurant business, and then as a tramp (bum) on the road between workhouses in the UK? This is what we're going back to.
This is insane. We have to stop backing the gig economy.
> This is insane. We have to stop backing the gig economy
Vote to regulate it in your state like CA has started to do. Individual behavior change won't change this system, but system wide regulatory signals can.
I cannot think of a reason to want to take work in the developed west, and casually turn it into this kind of serfdom. Every time I see gig economy workers in developing world economies, I think about this, and how immoral it is to uplift their drudgery and replace it into our context like there is no downside.
Has anyone else here read "Down and out in Paris & London" which is Orwell's record of his time in the Paris restaurant business, and then as a tramp (bum) on the road between workhouses in the UK? This is what we're going back to.
This is insane. We have to stop backing the gig economy.