New Uber Jobs!!!!!

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

6. The Big Picture: The Gig Economy is a Libertarian Dream

...one that Liberals are falling for.

What’s really going on is the desire of businesses to chop wages and benefit costs while also limiting their vulnerability to lawsuits, which can happen when salaried employees are mistreated. The burden of economic risk is shifted even further onto workers, who lose the security and protections of the New-Deal-era social insurance programs that were created when long-term employment was the norm.

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rowing use of contingent workers (in “gigs”) came when capitalists sought to respond to gains by labor through the early 1970s, and in response to the victories capital won in the rise of the neoliberal era. Because contingent workers were usually not covered by union contracts or other legal safeguards, employers hired them to regain leverage over workers lost when unionized workers gained protection against unjust dismissal, and courts extended these protections to non-union workers under the “implicit contract” doctrine.

http://ourfuture.org/20140528/cut-throat-capitalism-welcome-to-the-gig-economy

It should be an interesting discussion, but it'll surely be hijacked by the Uber shills here (and or Lyft etc...).