On: FTC to crack down on companies taking advantage of gig workers

[ckw]

I am correcting your misapprehension that the parent is equating gig work with indentured servitude. They are not. And I am reiterating the point the parent makes regarding the error both the grandparent and you make, in inferring from the willful entrance into a contract the non-exploitative nature of that contract and its execution. To repeat: indentured servants entered willfully into their contracts, yet those contracts were manifestly exploitative. Hence the willful nature of one’s entrance into a contract says nothing about whether it is exploitative in character or execution.

[scarface74 → ckw]

In that case does every company who employs people who would rather be doing another job, but don’t have a choice “exploitive”?

[ckw → scarface74]

No. In a country like Denmark, even low status jobs like fast food pay a living wage (~$22/hr), provide a pension, 6 weeks paid vacation, etc.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/mcdonalds-workers-denmark/

[scarface74 → ckw]

Denmark also has the highest tax burden.

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-12/05/c_139564341.htm

https://destinationscanner.com/average-salary-in-denmark/

The average person in Denmark takes home much less than the average American while the average gross is neck and neck between both.

https://www.worlddata.info/average-income.php

[ckw → scarface74]

It’s almost as if, were we to decide collectively that everyone who works should enjoy a decent living, it could be so.