But does every single way to make money have to provide a living wage with full health benefits, etc.? Seems like you limit types of innovation that could otherwise happen. For example, say you create some kind of trash cleanup/recycling incentive app that pays out some small amount for trash/recyclables picked up and turned in. Soon: everyone is outraged that some poor person can't make a living wage picking up recyclables and they try to force you to hire all users of your app as full time employees with full health benefits, etc. That doesn't seem right.
Can't compare that app to Uber, Uber hasn't innovated much of anything besides a tracking app with a payment integration. Lift forked their product in no time.
They have undercut the competition, skirted laws, pay horrible wages, promised a self driving fleet , this is the funniest to me.
I bet they want that released without too much regulatory friction too.
There was this incident where their fsd fleet car run over 6 red lights consecutively.
The break it ask for forgiveness later approach is generally not welcome in Europe, it's regarded as borderline criminal practice.
And then delay court procedures and are the other slimy practices.
Always easier to make a buck when breaking the law when everyone else is not breaking it.
These companies have compliance departments and lawyers not to see what's legal, but to see how much they can get away with.
Today, a Dutch Judge showed them the demarcation lines.
I agree with this in theory but you have to contend with how people actually engage with these kinds of gig jobs. You can't just legalese "this isn't a full time job" when people are working it as a full time job.
This already exists but without an app. Anyone can collect scrap and sell it to a recycling center. Plenty of homeless people use this as a primary income source. No one has ever tried to classify it as employment.
