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Re:The gig economy is quietly undermining a century of worke... by blfr on Sunday April 28, 2019 @12:32PM (#19772041)
while worker protections had their use a century ago, they have increased cost of labour by a lot, making many low skilled workers unemployable

Outsourcing with maybe a dash of mass immigration made them unemployable, not workers protections.

Let's not pretend like this is some accidental outcome of well-meaning measures. This is the desired result of deliberately implemented policies.

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Re:The gig economy is quietly undermining a century of worke... by wongarsu on Sunday April 28, 2019 @02:10PM (#19772648)
Let's not forget automation. A lot of low-skilled jobs from a century ago simply don't exist anymore or have shrunk massively.
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