Great point. Gig work, for how shitty and exploitative it is, has probably the shortest time from application to paycheck of any job.
It’s interesting in a way. They have created something that’s not only damaging to society but to themselves as well. It enables workers to just straight up leave their jobs on a whim knowing that gig work will exist as a temporary measure until they find something else.
That seems like a gross oversight in the systems that are designed to constrain the workers. Something that nobody foresaw when it came to pushing this “gig economy” shit.
Bad for workers. But bad for petty-boug tyrants as well. They have always operated on the very edge of employee retention levels. Creating anything that decreases employee retention further causes hell for the industries that operate on low retention of employees.
The only way they’ll be able to survive is by change the speed at which they can find and on-board new employees. OR by improving the standard of work to retain employees better.
It becomes more understandable when you consider that “they” in terms of the capitalists aren’t a monolith, and though they all have the same broad goal of extracting as much value and profit as possible, each’s pursuit of that goal will inevitably bring them into conflict with each other as they all try to become the fattest pig. Gig companies don’t care if they’re hurting restaurants, it’s just business.
Yeah it also does in fact show what would happen if a good welfare system existed as a safety net for people. They would be bailing on the jobs knowing they had a safety net for a while. These extremely available gig jobs are literally performing the function of a safety net in this instance, in a fucked up way.
