The ‘invisible’, often unhappy workforce that’s deciding the future of AI

Re:The ‘invisible’, often unhappy workforce that’s deciding ... by gadflyinyoureye on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @03:00PM (#29570854)

We'd still have the costs if the government took those in-house. Germans pay around $1500 a month (personal + employer costs) for healthcare. Other government programs add more cost. Bring those in cost would not really bring the cost of the employee down. Rather it would expand the weight and power of the government via increased taxes.

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Re:The ‘invisible’, often unhappy workforce that’s deciding ... by oneoff786 on Thursday December 16, 2021 @08:42AM (#29577973)

It wouldn’t change the actual costs of living, but it would remove the inflection points where a full time employee is suddenly much more expensive than a 38 hour a work employee.

And the taxes could be spread more progressively, e.g. to match the rate of wealth accumulation people get from having passively having wealth

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Re:The ‘invisible’, often unhappy workforce that’s deciding ... by gmadsen on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @04:01PM (#29571575)

it distributes the cost across all sectors, which as the above poster commented would be beneficial to hiring low skill workers

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