alt Hacker News>but you saying it shouldn't exist at all begs the question of what exactly these many, many workers should do instead to make extra, necessary money instead.
The exact same thing they are doing now, except as employees.
I do not think this is some utopian vision. Worker rights are a very real thing in other low skill jobs.
> The exact same thing they are doing now, except as employees.
except that's
> that could replace their gig wages under existing market dynamics.
so this job will not exist. The wages and costs required to have such a large fleet of employees, not all of whom is constantly employed and productive, but is costing money, will remove this role completely. Or, the number of them will necessarily be reduced, so that timely deliveries would be harder.