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.
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.
Living in Denmark, it’s always so odd for me when health insurance is somehow connected to your job… Why?
Health is needed for anyone, both people who work and not. Why it only makes sense for everyone to have access for it, and everyone paying for it over taxes.
Keeping it connected with work is poodle giving the employers more power than they should have - they should not have any power over healthcare.
Health expenditure in India is complicated. Healthcare is free for the poor, but only subsidised for others. And private hospitals, which often have shorter waiting times, can charge full cost. So most employed people get insurance through their employer. The terms and quality of such insurance can vary wildly.
To add to this, most companies in the us have a waiting period before certain benefits kick in, like health insurance. So if you want to switch jobs for whatever reason, you better be extra careful for the first 3 months of your new job. Unless of course you want to pay $1,000 a month to keep your insurance through cobra, or go through the cluster fuck runaround of getting insurance on your own. So especially when your insurance cover your whole family, it’s a nightmare.
Every company is scummy because there’s no regulations and there are no regulations because general public (morons) think of license raj/communism when you mention regulations.
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