Or just set up 2fa and give the second factor to a third party whom the state has difficulty compelling. Granted this does require unconditional trust.
Do you have a link of what you're referring to? I know some of the supervisors personally and that strikes me as an extremely distant view of them. I think it's a lot more likely that you're projecting strawmen intentions onto policies.
Uber does exist as a second job. The people deserve protections just as much as with their first job. It ain't a fuckin hobby like you're implying or you wouldn't get paid at all.
It's honestly disgusting. The term "contractor" is just a regression, in true American fashion, to disguising abuse of labor as both necessary and progressive. There is no benefit to the term if it does not implying a mutually arrived at negotiated payment—do you really think that slavery would be any less heinous with a "flexible schedule"?
It's fucking disgusting and makes me deeply ashamed to be associated with the tech community. Americans have never needed to read "Black Reconstruction" more.
> This boils up to github, as can be seen by teams who do not understand the very basic about git commits, and enable "squash commits by default" on their repos.
If I ever work on a team that agrees on how to commit I'll eat my hat. This is absolutely nowhere in the private tech sector.
Isn't this forum all about markets? I'm sure you can put where I'm going with this together.
Anyway it's beyond rich describing half these companies as "profitable" in the first place. They're burning the cash at both ends to not get kicked out of california. I have no clue how you could imagine they're the people with leverage with a straight face.
I'm gonna need a big fat "citation needed" on the idea that this isn't a job to people. It doesn't square with, again, the drivers actually in my life. It sounds exactly like uncritically re-spewing the bullshit of these employers.
This could have been titled, "when operating systems (or computers) were different from each other".
Now it's just a cpu, peripherals, a flavor of Unix, some mild window management customization, and one of two browsers. Even windows is finally getting on the Unix bandwagon (not counting xenix....)
Err, is the "casual use of the gig economy" good? These are jobs, not hobbies, and people need to eat. This certainly isn't going to make getting bread on the table any easier except in the extremely short term—and that's assuming a collective, vindictive, corporate withdrawal from the state.
Given the legality of unionizing, I certainly don't see wages going up in the near future. It sounds like a lot of these employees weren't educated about their (lack of) rights.