Re:Who Pays the Price for Selling $10 Bills for $5?
by will_brown on Friday April 05, 2019 @09:12AM
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>genuinely don't understand the argument that tech companies are hurting society by providing lower paying gig-economy jobs.
For starters these multi billion dollar gig economy tech platforms aren’t providing jobs (at least to the gig workers). Gig workers are independent contractors and by their very nature independent contractors are self-employed.
It’s all a massive fraud that harms society. How many non tech companies go public with $1B/year losses? None. The very same company who on one hand doesn’t give 40+hour workers employee benefits and on the other claim they are job creators.
For starters these multi billion dollar gig economy tech platforms aren’t providing jobs (at least to the gig workers). Gig workers are independent contractors and by their very nature independent contractors are self-employed.
It’s all a massive fraud that harms society. How many non tech companies go public with $1B/year losses? None. The very same company who on one hand doesn’t give 40+hour workers employee benefits and on the other claim they are job creators.