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Re:The Gig Economy’s False Promise by dagenleg on Monday April 10, 2017 @12:30PM (#14079925)
And who will hire a 40y.o. worker with no work experience and some internet-taught skills?
Re:The Gig Economy’s False Promise by malandrew on Monday April 10, 2017 @12:32PM (#14079953)
More employers than would will hire a 40y.o. worker with no work experience and no skills.
Re:The Gig Economy’s False Promise by jstanley on Monday April 10, 2017 @12:33PM (#14079962)
Nobody is suggesting people get hired with no experience and little skill. If you create value for people they'll give you money for it, it's as simple as that.

If people aren't prepared to give you money for it, it's obviously not creating as much value as you think it is. That's nobody's fault but your own.

Re:The Gig Economy’s False Promise by badsock on Monday April 10, 2017 @12:54PM (#14080190)
Ah, the good old Social Darwinism argument.
Re:The Gig Economy’s False Promise by newyankee on Monday April 10, 2017 @02:00PM (#14080990)
Survive or die, i am thriving because i am smart, dedicated, hardworking and you won't because likely you miss some of these things (backgrounds do not matter) /s
Re:The Gig Economy’s False Promise by s73ver on Monday April 10, 2017 @04:12PM (#14082121)
So how does this person feed their family, then?
Re:The Gig Economy’s False Promise by jstanley on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @05:19AM (#14086067)
They won't be able to.

How does a wild animal feed his family if he can't catch any food? He gets out-competed by more effective individuals.

Given finite resources and unbounded population growth, population must grow to the point where there are not enough resources to support everybody, and then some people have to start dying.

Re:The Gig Economy’s False Promise by Can_Not on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @10:20AM (#14097922)
As much as you'd like to invoke social Darwinism, maybe they are secretly lazy or whatever, but there is one underlying issue. We are a modern civilized society. As a society, we have an obligation to prepare our children for the future. "Let them starve" means I'm going to be killed in front of my son behind a theatre by someone who's parents were allowed to starve. The solution isn't to buy a house in a gated community and pretend like problems go away.
Re:The Gig Economy’s False Promise by s73ver on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @12:00PM (#14089321)
Ok. We'll just make sure to move them all next to you while this happens.