Gig Economy & Neo-liberalism - A discussion

Gig economy could be bright or dark future of world economies-a discussion

Pandemic changed the world. It exposed the economy and development structures within minimum time. People are quarantined by imposing curfews and lock downs. More devastating miseries have been added in empty baskets of daily wagers. White color employees have been receiving end of contract letters since the states declared state of emergency. Policy and decision makers have been trying to protect citizens from fatal attacks of COVID-19. Strong economies are plunging. Economies that were ambitious to welfare states, abruptly collapsed due to the pandemic. All development agendas turned to save lives and maintain food supplies. World Health Organization (WHO) developed coordination with states to run mass level awareness campaign as quarantine is the only protection measures available. Quarantine is challenging for states as well as citizen tasks especially in term of income generation. States started offering multiple economic packages and debt reprieve. But there is urgent need to work out more inclusive and sustainable economic policies. Despite of traditional economy, considering “gig economy” as a economy that could reduce human resource management. For this we need to understand the gig economy and how it works.     

Do you know gig economy system?

Off course, you are aware of it. It is system in which a labor market characterized by the prevalence of short-term contracts or freelance work as opposed to permanent jobs. It is another milestone Neo-liberalism is going to achieve. No permanent jobs, no labor unions, no perks and jobs with short contracts. Just labor. The problematic group will be perish and could be replaced with product of artificial intelligence-Robots. Free market will further go in hands of capitalists. They will have more access to state affairs. We will see more privatization in future. Lever to control labor market is already in hand. Their all acts are legitimated as their strong presence in decision making processes-legislative houses. It is not a story of one state, it has blanket coverage. It is not about religion, racism, authenticity or gender, it is all about promotion agenda of Neo-Liberalism. This is a spiteful and humiliating agenda. It is not about humanity, culture or something invite people on common grounds but, it is about reinforcing further divide to further rule. We saw yellow shirts wearing protesters on the streets of Paris in 2018. It was about economic justice. Initially the movement was motivated by rising fuel prices and a high cost of living. It claims that disproportionate burden of government revenue collection reforms (taxes) were falling on working class and middle classes. We witnessed people waged protests in Hong Kong. At the beginning, people who booked roads (protesters) only demanded the withdrawal of the extradition bill. Following an escalation in the severity of policing tactics against demonstrators on 12 June 2019, the protesters objective was to achieve the following five demands (under the slogan "Five demands, not one less"). Such agitations always alarming for the capitalist powers and sewing demanding lips is always their priority as it is not business as usual.

We were told to not drink polluted water, it is harmful for health, we started using boiled water but they offered us bottled water at minimum price. Now they asked us to stay home if you want to be safe- we did but they do not have income generation solutions and alternatively, soon, they will announce, economic activities protect us from COVID-19.

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