Originally Posted by
LanghamP
Amazon, Uber, PostMates, UberEats, and the trucking industry love the gig economy because it shifts a portion of the salary back to the laborer.
Suppose you have a salary of 40K per year. It probably cost the company around 60K if you include the rest of compensation such as medical. Amazon wants to make a one-time investment in you in order to shift that cost to you for all time.
A broken arm costs 50K. Medical insurance is easily 1K per month. Have a couple of employees? The temptation is also to gig them (Amazon gigs you, you gig your riders).
Amazon is the master of shifting costs from themselves; more likely they have done their homework while us (the entrepeneurs) will by trial and error figure out if this work.
one also has to deal with the fact that Amazon isn’t likely to pay more for a contracted van and driver so each cyclist would take part of any profit someone could make. Take a look at what they expect.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-37912858
Last edited by Mobile 155; 06-28-18 at 12:53 PM.