Khanna: Portable freelancer insurance and unions are the future of labor
Parag Khanna · a16z Podcast | Connectivity and the Internet as Supply Chain · Jan 2, 2019 · at 22:57
Author and global strategist Parag Khanna discusses how worker security systems must adapt as traditional single-employer career tracks dissolve.
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“And then freelancers union, which used to be when I lived in New York five years ago, I was a member of freelancers union. I was getting my health insurance and so forth. Now it's really growing and growing. At a massive rate, and they're looking at portable insurance schemes, and workers' rights, and all of these kinds of new types of political arrangements, and negotiations, and social contracts with their members with insurance companies, with the state of New York, and so on. So, so these are the solution to this transition. They are the future, and they are also scaling rapidly right now.”
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