Maybe the Gig Economy Isn’t Reshaping Work After All

Re:Maybe the Gig Economy Isn’t Reshaping Work After All by marcosdumay on Friday June 08, 2018 @08:23PM (#17270787)

It is simply incredible how governments do never decided that banking is a public service and should be regulated as such (it's been what? 300 years? Maybe that's still too little)

A passport is enough to prove your identity isn't fake. But since it's not enough to give you a credit line, banks simply refuse the service. There are way too many people with no access to banks.

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Re:Maybe the Gig Economy Isn’t Reshaping Work After All by gaius on Saturday June 09, 2018 @05:44AM (#17272249)

It is simply incredible how governments do never decided that banking is a public service

They did https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girobank https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_Office_Money

A passport is enough to prove your identity isn't fake

Theoretically, perhaps, but in practice anyone who needs to validate identity will ask for multiple forms of ID.

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