Re:Uber will charge significantly more per trip as new Seatt...
by throwaway201103 on Thursday December 31, 2020 @01:53AM
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What work is there at Google that can be done by a person with no particular skills?
Almost anybody can move a box from a conveyor belt to a loading dock, or unload boxes from a truck.
Re:Uber will charge significantly more per trip as new Seatt...
by throwaway3699 on Thursday December 31, 2020 @03:28AM
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That hardly matters. Amazon provides hundreds of thousands of new jobs and they get crucified for it. Same with any other large company with a huge number of workers.
It's just a bad incentive structure because nobody wants these workers due to the terrible PR. Amazon is trying it's hardest to automate everyone out of a job.
Why would any company ever employ anyone in the close-to-minimum-wage bracket? Amazon gets flack for employment, and Google gets none. Only one of those two has made room for any significant number of close-to-minimum-wage workers.
This is a massively perverse incentive that prioritises how rich people feel about themselves over how people without much actually live. IMHO, that's about as close to a working definition of evil as I can muster.
Semi-related: this is also why basic income will never work. Basic income will be seen, inevitably, as subsidising rich companies, which will lead to it being killed off.