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Comment by throwqwerty | Hacker News Reader

oh no! who will think of the precedent!!!

I mean these gig-economy execs strive really hard to not pay contractors benefits or pay unemployment tax, etc... The employees are working a gig job, they get paid strictly off supply and demand, demand goes up they make more money, demand goes down or supply goes up and they make less (or no money). With the bailout were basically saying its OK to not pay taxes but expect a bailout, people that rent out their houses on airbnb as a job, etc....

Everyone needs help during the pandemic, but the execs from these companies should get zero say because these are not their employees. They are not laid off, not furloughed. There just isnt demand in their 'gig'.

>With the bailout were basically saying its OK to not pay taxes but expect a bailout

suppose this were true and this legislation set that precedent? let me ask you: how often do we have a need for a "bailout"? do a really quick cost/benefit analysis and you'll see that you're implying we should let these people struggle today to save some money in ~10 years. does that make sense to you?

Thats absolutely not what Im saying, Im saying that these company execs that want the government to help their contractors are being so selfishly hypocritical. If they want to help their contractors, these billion dollar companies can offer things like health insurance, PTO/sick leave, etc... It's insane they are asking the government to help these contractors so they can continue to make money as a business as cheap as possible when things are back in order.

Of course we should help these people. Everyone should help and paying taxes and providing benefits is the social agreement we've made in this country so we can help when issues like this arise.

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