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Inside: What's a "gig work minimum wage"; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/17/no-piecework/
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As I mentioned in my own blog on the subject of work: I recall a conversation here on Mastodon where one person said that everyone needs employment. Another responded that no, everyone needs food, clothing, shelter, and health care. We just happen to have a society where in order to get these things, you (normally) need to be employed in a job.
https://funcrunch.medium.com/redefining-work-3c4e85614fb0?sk=5dcdc83576f11c803b709bdc517bc52e
Adore this definition of economics:
... neoclassical economist (someone who has experienced a specific form of neurological injury that makes you incapable of perceiving or reasoning about power)
It's like doing statistical analysis without examination of bias.
Republican administrations suppress wage growth
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/13/business/economy/middle-class-pay.html
Women's wage suppression
If women counted : worth and value in the global economy
Marilyn Waring; introduction by Gloria Steinem
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The people who kept Uber, & other gig economy startups alive for a decade, The Epstein Class ...
... they really want unpaid work i.e. slavery
Imagine a job like receptionist, where the person only actually gets paid when there's clients to deal with or a phone call to answer
The between-times, waiting for a call or for clients to arrive wouldn’t be paid
Required to be sitting in an office on a slow day, but unpaid
This rip-off is called "simplifying a business model"
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