Which is why Britain has the NHS.
To me, the entire point of a robust welfare state is that you don't need to regulate employment nearly as strictly, because then you aren't as reliant on employers for life necessities. And that's a net positive, because regulation is far less effective than entitlements.
Sure! But the NHS is effectively becoming "care for the old and everyone else can shift for themselves" in a lot of ways. And there are plenty of other ways that the social safety net in the UK (to say nothing of other places Deliveroo et al. operate, like the United States) is being sabotaged--council housing is shrinking, when it's not catching on fire, etc.
> And that's a net positive, because regulation is far less effective than entitlements.
Completely agreed. But political forces exist to trash them, so...welp.
Employers have a duty to their employees and to the society and community that grants them the right to the fiction of their existence, and that is being shirked.