Yea, there's that line in the text above specifically about how employees don't need to pay independent contractors overtime or minimum wage.
I mean, here in Poland in software development basically you're expected to go pseudo-contractor or freelance if you want to earn anything significant past a certain level.
Being currently a proper employee with sick leave, PTO, etc. I dread this moment.
I was fortunate enough to get in for an internship and later be able to both work and finish my Master's, and now am full time.
But sometimes I wonder whether I'm not constraining myself by staying full time and whether I shouldn't just go freelance.
Yes, I totally need that gaming rig for my, umm, IT work.
That's the thinking of the tax administration here.
- Coffee machine for your employees – deductible
- Coffee machine for your office (as a CEO/manager/whatever) – not deductible
- Coffee machine for your office but you invite customers to the office and offer them coffee when talking deals with them – deductible again
Fuck. There is literally a recycled ancap "but the minimum wage is bad tho" argument in here:
"Although the minimum wage and overtime pay requirements of the FLSA would no longer apply to workers who shift from employee status to independent contractor status, the Department anticipates an increase in labor force activity. That said, the Department does not attempt to quantify the magnitude of any increase in earnings as a result of increased labor force activity.
If currently unemployed workers or individuals who are out of the labor market become independent contractors due to this rule, their earnings will increase as they currently have no employment-related earnings other than possibly unemployment benefits. The impact on earnings is more ambiguous if employees' classifications change to independent contractors. In theory, companies would likely have to pay more per hour to independent contractors than to employees because independent contractors generally do not receive employer-provided benefits and have higher tax liabilities. Data show an hourly wage premium for independent contractors when comparing unconditional means. But as the analysis below shows, when controlling for certain differences in worker characteristics, this expected wage premium may not always be observable at a statistically significant level. It should be noted, however, that these estimates do not attempt to incorporate the value of flexibility and satisfaction that independent contractors cite as key factors in their preference of independent contracting arrangements over traditional employment."
:agony-consuming: :agony-consuming: :agony-consuming: :agony-consuming: :agony-consuming: :agony-consuming: :agony-consuming:
Who knew the real compensation for our labor was the enjoyment we had along the way? God this shit is so so dark. Nobody even questions whether there's a seat at the table for themselves.
If currently unemployed workers or individuals who are out of the labor market become independent contractors due to this rule, their earnings will increase as they currently have no employment-related earnings other than possibly unemployment benefits.
This is the longest way you could possibly write this sentence. Let me try this shit on and see if it fits.
"If current numbers or integers that are static start to increase their relative value (ie: gain higher numerical reference than concurrent numbers or integers) then the number that increased will be higher than the number that did not increase, therefore, 2 will be a higher number than 1 (and especially that of Zero.)"
Edit: I guess it kinda works. We are going to drown in banality. The future can fuck off.
Good finds. This, coupled with the flatlining wage growth, massively lowered interest rates, and many other economic variables paints a rather decrepit portrait. We are approaching the endgame. Hopefully it serves as fuel for the revolutionary fire rather than our pyre.
I am so sad to say I saw this coming. Wall St. has been pumping money into Uber so they win all their bullshit lawsuits and lobbying schemes.
We are so fucked. I want this to open people’s eyes, but I feel like it won’t.
The goose was cooked decades ago, dude. "Entrepreneurship" has been taught to kids as some sort of magic since the 90s.
Modern *entrepreneurship" is just being clever Bout selling your own labor. They want you to dance more for them and the better your dance, they more of an entrepreneur you are.
Holy shit that link is fucking horrific. Literally every single thing is egregiously bad. The future is so fucking bleak.
I'm guessing the ballot measure California just passed isn't too far off from this in implication.
Who is fighting against this and what are the chances of it being overturned?
Where do the people who brainstorm this congregate? I need to know so I can show up there and point out to them that this is bad. Surely speaking to them in person in a calm and reassuring tone will change their mind.
boundless underground chambers of vats to produce new McKinsey clones
Lol, this is almost exactly what happened in 2017 in Brazil after Dilma got coup'd. I haven't had any worker's rights at all for years.
The image comes from ProPublica’s “Tracking the Trump Administration’s “Midnight Regulations”” , which is a horror scroll of rulings this admin is trying to pass at the last moment. Highly recommended, should’ve posted this in c/creepy
the Department of State to require some visitors to the U.S. on business or tourist visas to post up to $15,000 as a bond, which will be returned to them once they leave the United States.
I'll guess I'll cancel my plans to come visit American national parks.
“Economic dependency” is at the core of it: if a worker “depends” on the company they’re an employe, if not–a contractor.
British neoliberal colonialism finally comes home?
"Historical Roots of Famine Relief Paradigms: Ideas on Dependency and Free Trade in India in the 1870s" https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1467-7717.1996.tb01035.x
