[Animats]

From the article: " But it would ameliorate one of the worst problems with the 1099 economy without fundamentally quashing the business model, namely pay that works out to less than the minimum wage."

The entire purpose of labor law is to quash that "business model".

Unions. The people who brought you the weekend.

[hkmurakami]

There's one area where hourly wages are way below minimum wages in a country you wouldn't expect: Animators in Japan. It's not uncommon for them to make ~$2/hour because they're paid "per sheet" that they draw.

(I think minimum wages are 800 yen per hour, or roughly $6.50)

[deciplex]

Seeing that makes me wince. It was not long ago that you would have instead typed "or roughly $10". I'm not sure to what extent that's affected minimum-wage workers in Japan though, if at all.

[fwn]

The church & the productivity increase brought the weekend.