STOCK MARKET WATCH -- Wednesday, 26 August 2015

[Demeter]

7. Robert Reich: In the New Economy, Workers Take on All the Risk

http://www.alternet.org/economy/robert-reich-new-economy-workers-take-all-risk?akid=13412.227380.fPZ4IL&rd=1&src=newsletter1041400&t=3

More Americans than ever don't know what they'll be earning next week. That's why we need income insurance...This varied group includes independent contractors, temporary workers, the self-employed, part-timers, freelancers, and free agents. Most file 1099s rather than W2s, for tax purposes. On demand and on call – in the “share” economy, the “gig” economy, or, more prosaically, the “irregular” economy – the result is the same: no predictable earnings or hours. It’s the biggest change in the American workforce in over a century, and it’s happening at lightning speed. It’s estimated that in five years over 40 percent of the American labor force will have uncertain work; in a decade, most of us.

Increasingly, businesses need only a relatively small pool of “talent” anchored in the enterprise – innovators and strategists responsible for the firm’s unique competitive strength. Everyone else is becoming fungible, sought only for their reliability and low cost.

THAT'S WHAT THEY'D LIKE US TO BELIEVE....BUT THE CEOS WILL BE SORRY, AND IT WON'T TAKE VERY LONG, EITHER.

NO LOYALTY, NO RECIPROCITY

AIN'T NO WAY TO RUN A BUSINESS OR A COUNTRY.


DEMETER'S BEEN IRREGULAR SINCE THE KID WAS BORN...AND IT SHOWS!