Re:How Estimates of the Gig Economy Went Wrong
by devoply on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @04:59AM
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They can exist as long as there is exploitable cheap labor willing to work for peanuts with no job protection or benefits. As soon as there are real jobs everyone would leave such companies in droves... and their business model would collapse. In order for such a company to exist you need an indentured lower class that's barely surviving and has very little ability to lift itself up. In another words from a societal perspective such companies an anathema to be eliminated, not cheered on.
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Re:How Estimates of the Gig Economy Went Wrong
by expertentipp on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @05:15AM
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> exploitable cheap labor
> indentured lower class that's barely surviving and has very little ability to lift itself up
Thriving poverty industry and a steady stream of immigrants who have to start from the bottom of the visa/stay permission hierarchy ensures that at any time, there exist a solid share of a society qualifying as such. It's trivial also to embitter these two groups (domestic and incoming) onto each other.