A Driver’s Suicide Reveals the Dark Side of the Gig Economy

Re:A Driver’s Suicide Reveals the Dark Side of the Gig Economy by AstralStorm on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @05:01PM (#16320305)

The job pool will shrink though as the appliances start to report early maintenance issues. Thus the demand for skill intensive repairs will fall. Therefore the job will be less valued due to competition from almost unskilled labour driving wages down.

The temporary lack only pertains too skilled technicians and nor people who can install and uninstall a ready made module.

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Re:A Driver’s Suicide Reveals the Dark Side of the Gig Economy by dazc on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @03:09AM (#16322936)

I agree with your point, the trend to 'de-skill' a lot of trades is a real one.

However, there's still plenty of old buildings around and, in the UK at least, a real shortage of people with the necessary skills to maintain them.

In the context of the tread, a middle-aged taxi driver, looking at a future of redundancy, only has to worry about the next 15 years or so, not how things are going to play-out in the distant future. Maybe?

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Re:A Driver’s Suicide Reveals the Dark Side of the Gig Economy by AstralStorm on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @03:36AM (#16323059)

Not really. They don't get an early pension. Switching to another unskilled trade will be ever harder and ever more competitive.

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