Unbundling Work from Employment (2020)
This is just another paean to making all white-collar work &quot;gig&quot; work, undermining the security and benefits of traditional employment, in favor of making better-looking numbers on balance sheets for startups. Don&#x27;t buy into this. Some people can do it; other&#x27;s can&#x27;t. I <i>could</i>, but I don&#x27;t <i>want</i> to. It&#x27;s too much stress on my interpersonal skills. The single, biggest, best change we could make with employment in this country -- which would benefit employer and employee alike -- is to decouple health insurance from it. It&#x27;d be better to break it out and let us buy health insurance like car insurance, but we&#x27;ll eventually get nationalized health care or socialized medicine or whatever you want to call it. Either way, this will alleviate a lot of pressure on companies on their hiring decisions, and on people who get locked in jobs because of health issues.