Atavism

I wish there was a reading of Dune by him. He liked to talk about how he wrote it to sound like oral history and to build with a verbal momentum but I don't know how that would sound if read as an audiobook.

The taxi business model emerged relatively recently and was the inspiration for Uber’s. In all likelihood, there will be a reversion to the historical norm which actually operates more efficiently than taxi cabs (which believe it or not operate as or more efficiently than ride shares in many scenarios). But we will have to see. Anything is possible because of how many billions are at stake.

Hey I’m the author of this piece, let me know if you all have any specific questions about AB5, the ABC test, and this gig economy business model!

The bill does account for that which is why classes of contractors have been able to win exceptions for it. The test is not an end-all for independent contractors, but I think the test is pretty good as, for example, if you work in one of those Turk platforms for Amazon/Facebook the work you do is considered contracting but to actually make money you HAVE to do 40+ hours and are given very few options about what type of work you can do (do you want to look at child porn or do you want to moderate hate speech or do you want to do these other family of tasks which are not as rewarding but less taxing psychologically). In your case, I think you're misunderstanding the control of work. He's not gonna rearrange his life schedule for the work, nor will he be forced to live in your house nor will he make any major outside of work changes. Less control refers to algorithmic bosses that in the name of a flexible work schedule end up rearranging your whole day-to-day schedule.