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Re:52% of UK gig workers are earning below minimum wage by EatingWithForks on Thursday May 11, 2023 @10:55AM (#35903091)
I don't think this is quite the same, because a gig worker would also have commuting costs to populations that have enough of a customer base. It would more be like you have 4 30min meetings today all with 20 minutes apart (so not enough time to really switch tasks to anything useful) and somehow your workplace doesn't count those waiting periods as work and therefore only pay you for 2 hrs work, even though you had to also wait 1 hr collectively during the in-between meetings.
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Re:52% of UK gig workers are earning below minimum wage by hammock on Thursday May 11, 2023 @01:09PM (#35905081)
This. It’s kind of like how, for office workers, the IRS/your company will reimburse you for travel between offices and meeting places, but not from your home to your main office
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Re:52% of UK gig workers are earning below minimum wage by AnthonyMouse on Thursday May 11, 2023 @02:39PM (#35906399)
Except they can get paid for that too.

Okay, you're at home and you want to be downtown. Open the app, wash the dishes from last night, take out the trash, by then someone near you wants a ride downtown. You get paid, and then you're downtown where you can get paid again right away.

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Re:52% of UK gig workers are earning below minimum wage by hgsgm on Thursday May 11, 2023 @06:49PM (#35909391)
That barely ever happens in practice.
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Re:52% of UK gig workers are earning below minimum wage by AnthonyMouse on Friday May 12, 2023 @12:46PM (#35918693)
But that doesn't make any sense. You're in some residential area, it's rush hour, you need to get into the downtown where the action is, and so does everybody else. There isn't one person who also wants to go where you're going? Unlikely.

Ironically, it's demands for minimum compensation that make efficiencies like that go away. Maybe there is some demand for that but not a ton, and only at low prices. Low is better than none when you're making the trip either way. But if you're prohibited from working for less than a threshold amount of money, then you get nothing.

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