The Gig Economy Celebrates Working To Excess

Re:The Gig Economy Celebrates Working To Excess by JohnLeTigre on Thursday March 23, 2017 @10:28AM (#13940001)

Typically 2/3rd of expenses in companies go into salaries. That's a huge chunk of money.

Somebody finds a system that reduces the salarial expenses to zero and all the hard-capitalists are over-joyed, secretly dreaming that they could apply this model to their own business.

In the mean time workers, while owning the means of production, are still liable to pay all the running expenses, to invest their time and work and give a percentage to a stranger, for some odd reason.

This is a form of feudalism.

I am not anti-capitalist, but I fear that this form of economy on the long run will not allow individuals to flourish economically through the merit of their work.

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Re:The Gig Economy Celebrates Working To Excess by fjdlwlv on Thursday March 23, 2017 @10:34AM (#13940063)

The "odd" reason is that that the "stranger" makes a huge contribution. That's why people weren't runnning nearly so many personal car services before Uber.

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Re:The Gig Economy Celebrates Working To Excess by JohnLeTigre on Thursday March 23, 2017 @10:44AM (#13940136)

It's an app

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Re:The Gig Economy Celebrates Working To Excess by fjdlwlv on Thursday March 23, 2017 @10:56AM (#13940249)

It's an app that no one made before. Why didn't they?

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Re:The Gig Economy Celebrates Working To Excess by JohnLeTigre on Thursday March 23, 2017 @01:51PM (#13942199)

It's illegal to taxi people around without a permit.

Look it up, gypsy cabs are not new at all. Most people kept a low profile and stuck to their own ghettos though.

Anyways, the conversation is not substantive anymore, both of our points where made.

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