Re:Gig economy companies spent more than $200M to bankroll P...
by AnthonyMouse on Friday November 13, 2020 @08:02PM
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> You are correct - regulations often limit an individual's ability to maximize their own gains in order to lift the overall floor.
The problem is they regularly fail to lift the overall floor. Prohibiting your existing best available source of employment will, as a rule, leave you with an alternative which is even less good. Something with more pay but a longer commute that eats that pay and then some. Something more dangerous, or less convenient, or less stable, or more stressful. And then you get paid a little more in exchange for losing something that was worth more to you than the money.
> Alternatively, we could offer public healthcare, social housing, and food guarantees, decoupling work from survival.
The problem is they regularly fail to lift the overall floor. Prohibiting your existing best available source of employment will, as a rule, leave you with an alternative which is even less good. Something with more pay but a longer commute that eats that pay and then some. Something more dangerous, or less convenient, or less stable, or more stressful. And then you get paid a little more in exchange for losing something that was worth more to you than the money.
> Alternatively, we could offer public healthcare, social housing, and food guarantees, decoupling work from survival.
Or a UBI. Which is what we should do.