haemaker

Everything is legal until they catch you.

It will take years to litigate. Look at Uber, their drivers sued to to be recognized as employees. Uber challenged the lawsuit all the way to the Ninth Circuit saying drivers could not sue or form a class (for a class action), due to their contract.

Now there are thousands of pending arbitration cases, that Uber is also dragging their feet on, and settling for pennies on the dollar.

Yes, it could be illegal, but the hoops an individual has to go though to fix it are very difficult, expensive, and time consuming.

Wow. You can live off the residuals of one 30 second spot made 16 years ago? You have one hell of an agent!

Yes, and it is a doozy...

There is a lot of talk about automation taking jobs, like trucking, or Medicare For All causing 6 to 7 figure job loss.

The solution that is often floated is to retrain these people to code. My hypothesis is that no one will hire a 50 year old truck driver that took a couple of years of coding classes.

Despite the headlines about unemployment being historically low, the only people getting jobs are between 27 and 35, with 5-10 years experience (BUT NO MORE). Too much experience, and you are too expensive, too little and you are a waste of time.

A truck driver would be too expensive, and have too little experience to ever get a coding job.

A good thing to check:

Go to any of the tech giants: Google, Facebook, Amazon; and some of the hot start-ups: Uber, Lyft, AirBnB, Slack, etc. Apply for jobs with strawman resumes that match my description above.

Then, ask them this:

• How many employees have you hired (not promoted or still working there) for individual contributor roles (Managers, Directors, VPs do not count) in development, architecture, engineering, or system administration roles that are over the age of 40?

If you want some more leads in this vein, try /r/recruitinghell.

Yes, and the very deep implications of that:

• What happens when there are no more truck driving jobs?
• What happens when all hospitals, pharmacies, drug companies, distributors, medical collection agencies, etc, etc lay-off tens, hundreds, thousands of people EACH because suddenly, they do not have to bill anyone but medicare. Not to mention the insurance companies that will disappear altogether.
• If no one gets hired above 40, what do they do until age 67 when social security kicks in?

Yes, she does it in Christmas Vacation.