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Uber-economy: what will happen to the millions of corporate slaves
Recently, the popular taxi service Uber has provoked an interesting discussion about the future of the economy and how we will work in the future.
Here is what they wrote about this in Fortune magazine. Rebecca Smith, Deputy Director of the National Employment Law Project protecting the rights of low-wage workers, last week wrote in her column that Uber and similar technology companies to create a distorted economy. "The benefits of new technologies go to those few people who control these platforms and those who provide services and perform work that is barely interrupted. It is a perversion".
Smith believes that these companies must pay social contributions for their employees, and pay them a fair and stable salary, regardless of how these people call workers or contractors. This is a common criticism that applies not only to Uber, and companies like TaskRabbit (where anyone can take to perform some small household business) or InstaCart (same Uber, only for couriers). Uber uses freelance status of drivers to protect themselves when they do something wrong: we are not responsible for the actions of drivers, we're just the platform. Uber investor Howard Morgan does not quite agree.
He believes that the force is nothing will change, and this Uber-economy is here to stay, for good or bad. "Yes, you have to be pretty careful if you enter into such a contract that you will not be considered by the employer.
And most of these companies pretty thoroughly on the subject were consulted. I think in this country very many people will do this kind of job. Now many people do this for several companies at once: the hours of work in a TaskRabbit, two hours drive Uber, and then a couple of hours in some sort of similar company.
But is it good? "Our economy has evolved since then, as we were working for corporations, sitting in one place for 40 years, and then received a pension.
This is a natural evolution. Good or bad? Do not want to make moral judgments, but today is the economy, and it is better when people have the opportunity to work and earn". published
To listen to the arguments of Morgan in this interview:
https://player.vimeo.com/video/129808455
P. S. And remember, just changing your mind — together we change the world! ©
Source: ideanomics.ru/?p=4299
Here is what they wrote about this in Fortune magazine. Rebecca Smith, Deputy Director of the National Employment Law Project protecting the rights of low-wage workers, last week wrote in her column that Uber and similar technology companies to create a distorted economy. "The benefits of new technologies go to those few people who control these platforms and those who provide services and perform work that is barely interrupted. It is a perversion".
Smith believes that these companies must pay social contributions for their employees, and pay them a fair and stable salary, regardless of how these people call workers or contractors. This is a common criticism that applies not only to Uber, and companies like TaskRabbit (where anyone can take to perform some small household business) or InstaCart (same Uber, only for couriers). Uber uses freelance status of drivers to protect themselves when they do something wrong: we are not responsible for the actions of drivers, we're just the platform. Uber investor Howard Morgan does not quite agree.
He believes that the force is nothing will change, and this Uber-economy is here to stay, for good or bad. "Yes, you have to be pretty careful if you enter into such a contract that you will not be considered by the employer.
And most of these companies pretty thoroughly on the subject were consulted. I think in this country very many people will do this kind of job. Now many people do this for several companies at once: the hours of work in a TaskRabbit, two hours drive Uber, and then a couple of hours in some sort of similar company.
But is it good? "Our economy has evolved since then, as we were working for corporations, sitting in one place for 40 years, and then received a pension.
This is a natural evolution. Good or bad? Do not want to make moral judgments, but today is the economy, and it is better when people have the opportunity to work and earn". published
To listen to the arguments of Morgan in this interview:
https://player.vimeo.com/video/129808455
P. S. And remember, just changing your mind — together we change the world! ©
Source: ideanomics.ru/?p=4299
