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>The gig economy is hiding the real employment problem in most of the West. This. Jobs that were previously contract employment jobs that came with health ins
by jack_tripper 9mo ago
>The gig economy is hiding the real employment problem in most of the West.
This. Jobs that were previously contract employment jobs that came with health insurance, workers rights and social security and were mostly taken by youth as part time jobs to fund studies, are now turned into gig jobs where you get none of those things and are mostly taken by migrants who live 10 in an apartment and send the money home.
Gig work used to mean that you have several customers you bounce around for doing part time gigs, not you work full time for the same tax dodging Amsterdam based food delivery company who doesn't want to hire local workers on employment contracts to evade labor laws and liabilities.
How does this benefit society? It only benefits the capital owning class. Why isn't the government regulating this gig industry abuse? It's literally what its job is.
- immibis 9mo agoThe capital-owning class is society. Don't you have a 401(k)?
- jack_tripper 9mo ago[flagged]
- igleria 9mo ago> I live in Europe So do I... Europe is quite diverse. My retirement, if there is a society at that point, would be funded by a mix of a private pension fund and a public one (Ireland).
- jack_tripper 9mo agoI know. That was tongue-in-cheek sarcasm for the Ponzi government pay-as-you-go pension system in most European countries that's said to collapse in the future unless we import infinity migrants to fund it. I was expecting people would catch onto it being tongue-in-cheek.
- immibis 9mo ago> Well then I guess we should just tear down the planet, the environment and society, burn, sell and grind to a pulp everything that isn't nailed to the ground for profit, and give everyone a cut, future consequences be damned. Yes.
- jack_tripper 9mo agoSo when do i get mine?
- reb 9mo agoAs usual, size matters. Equating typical 401(k)s with the economic activity of the class GP is referring to is... absurd. But pretending small-time participation in public markets is the same as billionaire participation in private markets is a great way to convince the lower classes our financial system isn't structured to move wealth away from them.