The rule — announced late last month by the National Labor Relations Board –- sets new standards for determining when two companies should be considered “joint employers” under the National Labor Relations Act.
It sounds wonky. But essentially, the rule could widen the number of companies that must participate in labor negotiations alongside their franchisees or independent contractors. For example, it might require Burger King to bargain with workers even though most of its U.S. restaurants are owned by franchisees. Or it could require Amazon to negotiate with delivery drivers who are employed by independent contractors.
Look, we need to be demanding free education because there’s no world in which McDonalds allows a union. You guys seen the price of a burger and the SIZE recently? The only way they’re going to respond is by firing everyone and putting a rush on flippy.
For those who don’t know who flippy is: https://misorobotics.com/flippy/
Some careers get automated, some jobs aren’t worth keeping and this is absolutely one of them. Fast food work is going away and it’s not coming back, just like the milkman or the newspaper delivery kid.
Good. Using machines to do the work we don’t want to is how we started producing more food than we can eat and enabled us to focus more on what we enjoy.
I’m all for eliminating scarcity and automating the kind of work nobody thrives doing, but I also recall Keynes famously predicted that if productivity kept on growing the way it was, it would be possible for people to work a 15-hour work week and still maintain a modern standard of living.
Well, productivity did keep on growing, and the promise of future-leisure time because productivity gains made want a thing of the past… didn’t pan out.
That’s because we keep funneling as many resources as possible to as few people as possible in the vain hopes that we might one day join them.
The quality of life for the ruling class is inconceivable to those in the working class.
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I mean, yeah, but the poors still believe the disparity in wealth should grow instead of shrink.
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We also need a tax law to support the displaced workers. This seems like a very socialist idea but there’s so much automation coming down the line that our current model will lead to a demand shock that destroys the economy.