Uber loses court appeal against drivers' rights
What is it going to take to let people offer to work for whatever wage they want? A ride sharing dApp on a blockchain? Or is the British government going to ban peer-to-peer networks too?<p>&gt;&gt;When are we going to let companies pay their employees Slave wages, you mean.<p>So it&#x27;s okay if they offer to work for a &quot;slave wage&quot; as a self-employed small business owner, but if they work through a third party, then it&#x27;s not okay? How it taking away an option in their interest? You&#x27;re reducing the avenues through which they can sell their labour, which cannot possibly be to their advantage.<p>&gt;&gt;It&#x27;s not going to happen - we tried that before, and it didn&#x27;t work. Remember the industrial revolution? Real good working conditions and pay in those factories, eh?<p>It worked incredibly well. Wages grew rapidly throughout the industrial revolution. What do you expect would have happened if a $15&#x2F;hr minimum wage were instituted in 1875, when per capita GDP was $1,000?<p>&gt;&gt;The universal basic income.<p>It doesn&#x27;t make sense that people should be denied the freedom to offer to work for whatever wage they want until universal welfare is implemented.