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Right up until it protects you out of a job, like California’s fast food minimum wage: https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w34033/w340...
This paper has not been peer reviewed and is written by a conservative leaning academic. I'm sure you knew both of those things though
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Right up until it protects you out of a job, like California’s fast food minimum wage: https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w34033/w340...
This paper has not been peer reviewed and is written by a conservative leaning academic. I'm sure you knew both of those things though
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It's also unlocking economic value that was impossible to realize in the old model. If you're sitting around your house with nothing to do for an hour you can now earn money in ways you couldn't before.
A laughable concept; absurd on its face. Just like the idea that uber is just suburban mums taking one or two trips on the way back from school. It will absolutely be a full time, below minimum wage job that desperate people do. The same as uber, delivery drivers, and the entire rest of the gig economy
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Right up until it protects you out of a job, like California’s fast food minimum wage: https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w34033/w340...
This paper has not been peer reviewed and is written by a conservative leaning academic. I'm sure you knew both of those things though
Interesting - same concept as Amazon Mechanical Turk when you could crowdsource tasks
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Its mystery shopping without any of those pesky minimum wage requirements
Mystery shoppers were often paid in cheaper groceries, one time payments, etc (at least in the early 2000s). Mystery shoppers wasn’t a full time hourly job.
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This paper has not been peer reviewed and is written by a conservative leaning academic. I'm sure you knew both of those things though
Is your position that making fast-food labor more expensive increases fast food employment? Because that's really a unique take.
Takes like yours used to baffle me, until I realized that the US was founded on enslaved labor and to this day there remains a silent expectation in some circles that there must be a laborer class which should be as inexpensive and disposable as possible, and is fundamentally distinct from the consumer class. A lot becomes clearer all at once when you realize that to some, there's a whole segment of the population that is not expected to benefit from the economy, only serve it.
Historically, such worldviews have in the long term tended to bring sharp misfortune to those holding them. I'm hoping for a better outcome here, though.
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Innovation in what exactly?
It's right there in the article. An innovative idea in the field of distributed labor, enabled by technology is being launched in the 99% of the US that allows ideas to be tried freely. I'm happy to see it!
>excluding California, New York City, Seattle and Colorado.
I question your basic math skills if you conclude that those jurisdictions amount to only 1% of the U.S.
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Is your position that making fast-food labor more expensive increases fast food employment? Because that's really a unique take.
I mean, yes, trivially? That only hinges on two factors: what share of a fast food business' overall expenses actually go to labor costs, and, y'know, how much extra demand is enabled by ensuring even the poorest workers make enough to afford fast food once in a while. Takes like yours used to baffle me, until I realized that the US was founded on enslaved labor and to this day there remains a silent expectation in s…
As for slavery, the poorly educated believe that it was a uniquely American phenomenon. Slavery was a global institution practiced by every civilization, nation, and culture on earth. In fact, it’s still alive and well in multiple places. The US abolished it fully in 1865. Products produced by slaves accounted for around 15% of our GDP at its peak.
You learned something today. I’m proud of you.
Not sure if I follow all that! What’s a real photo? So, no one from a restaurant can take a photo of their own dish which they just made?
> helping a hotel make sure a delivery driver can find a drop-off location by taking photos of the hotel entrance
Hotel staff can’t update Yelp, Google Maps location with the info? Or can’t drivers call the hotel or location? Also, it seems to be a very infrequent occurrence, Once per driver maybe?