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Creating Safety Nets for Gig Workers

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Are We Going to Fund These Safety Nets for the Grip Workers?

Economics is based on incentives. If you're saying that we want to incentivise the workers by providing them some some form of safety net, we also have to sor that were not taking away the incentive that is currently there with the employers to even employ these gig workers to begin with. So i think again, when it becomes iffer disincentivising the consumer itself, the demand for the gig workers goes down, and then so does employments. Two things that the government can readily take care of is education and health. The minute you give you has some form of universal health care, right? And some form of free public education. Those are two massive burdens of expenditure that you

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