This delivery app takes away health insurance when workers don’t meet quotas
This delivery app takes away health insurance when workers don’t meet quotas
Rest of World spoke with 40 riders for Swiggy in India. Many described losing coverage when they needed help the most.
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Gig economy is a scam. Zomato, Swiggy, Zepto, all are like this.
Nothing wrong with gig work. Health insurance is the scam.
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IMO, the worst part of traditional employment is the monopolization of the worker's time. The expectation that the employer's claim to the worker's time supersedes the worker's own. The idea that a worker must "request" time off, with the employer empowered to approve or deny that request. This supremacy over the worker's schedule is abhorrent, and should be the rare exception rather than the general rule.
Gig work fundamentally reverses this expectation. The "client" has no expectation that a worker will show up tomorrow, or ever again.
By eliminating (what I consider to be) the worst aspect of traditional employment, gig work is extremely appealing to me.
Health insurance is a little tentacle of the hydra that is capitalism.
The real problem of capitalism is that workers are compensated only for their labor, and not for the value they provide. Workers are not meaningfully involved in directing the company. They are not able to decide how to distribute the profits of the company.
Management is compensated for value, in the form of shares, options for shares, etc. As both management and shareholders, the hold all power to direct the company.
Compensate workers in much the same way as management, and the major problems of capitalism are effectively eliminated.
How do we do that? We strongly favor partnership and S-corp ownership structures over traditional C-corp.
Fair enough, more arguments than I could get from the average poster.