A monthly base salary is a labour protection for the employee, forcing the employer to take the business risk and distribute revenues from the peak times to the slow times, ensuring a stable revenue for their workforce.
This sounds like it should be the concern of the government, not a business. Such as a universal basic income.
The government takes care of that need by regulating tha labour market and shifting the burden onto the private sector, which in turn passes it over to the consumers through prices. It's a functional system more than a century old that is politically feasible today, unlike most UBI proposals. So until we can have superior alternatives in place, companies aren't really free to "disrupt" that social model.
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This sounds like it should be the concern of the government, not a business. Such as a universal basic income.
The government takes care of that need by regulating tha labour market and shifting the burden onto the private sector, which in turn passes it over to the consumers through prices. It's a functional system more than a century old that is politically feasible today, unlike most UBI proposals. So until we can have superior alternatives in place, companies aren't really free to "disrupt" that social model.
The government is clearly not taking care of that by regulating the labor market, given the difficult it has in classifying “gig work”.
For example
Are electrical/plumbing/painting/etc subcontractors hired by a general contractors freelancing?