We may have reached peak “gig” economy

Re:We may have reached peak “gig” economy by umberway on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @06:02AM (#13588568)

Increase sales tax on status/luxury items. Decrease sales tax on long-life products.

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Re:We may have reached peak “gig” economy by TeMPOraL on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @06:08AM (#13588598)

I don't see how the latter would help - "long-life" products would break anyway.

OTOH, if we could get minimum warranties from the EU's standard 2 years to something like 20 years for appliances and 10+ years for digital electronics... maybe then companies would start to care.

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Re:We may have reached peak “gig” economy by umberway on Thursday February 09, 2017 @09:55PM (#13612912)

The idea is to give companies an incentive to make tough stuff by increasing their revenue for such products. But let's do both!

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