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Skip to content All Posts Housing Education Food Health ← Older posts Hiring Americans is hard for distributed organizations: How the federal and state governments can Fix It Posted on October 7, 2020 by Brewster Kahle The Internet Archive has over 90 employees in the United States, but they reside in 17 different states and even more counties. While distributed workforces are becoming common, it has become so painful to deal with the federal, state, and county regulations that we will soon be paying to outsource the headache. We are not the only ones straining under the burden, but there are some possible fixes. Hiring in Canada is easier and less expensive than in the United States, meaning that the federal government, each state and many counties should make changes to become competitive. The real reason the US and states should make changes is to make a better home for their residents, but some will be motivated by making it a better home for businesses. Luckily, changes would benefit both businesses and individuals. The rules might have made sense at a different time when companies hired many people in one location. But they do not make sense now– now that more organizations are becoming distributed. The non-profit organizations I work with are struggling with this issue and many are looking to outsourcing organizations of different flavors to deal with our governments. The problems start with a lack of universal healthcare. If we did not put this administrative burden on companies and nonprofits, it would greatly ease hiring employees. It is not just the expense for the insurance– it is all the administration, yearly rebidding, managing many plans, and across the whole United States. Many people that do not want universal healthcare say they are “pro-business,” but in fact it is hurting United States businesses and families. It is hard for me to understand. Then there are state regulations– if we want to hire a person in a new state, or someone wants to move to another state, then we have to register to do business there. Every state has a different unemployment rate as well as a different base rate to be taxed on. We also have to do seemingly endless forms and audits for workers compensation and taxes. And some counties or burroughs have their own regulations and taxes. A national payroll service helps (which is costly, by the way) but the screams of agony from the HR department for other administrative tasks have been growing over the years. We often do not hire someone because they lived in a state where we did not already have an employee. Then there are some bizarre regulations, like the definition of employee versus contractor. We may want to hire someone to work a few hours, but this can be too hard in California because of the expansive rules. This is being debated now in the case of Uber and Lyft, but let me give a different, recent, and real example. I help support a five-person arts organization that pays teachers to teach specialized crafts. Some of these teachers work only a few hours a year. At first they were contractors, but then one of the teachers applied for unemployment to the state of California which then launched a disruptive investigation and found every one of these teachers were employees in their eyes and fined the organization tens of thousands of dollars. The level of paperwork now required to have someone work for 2-3 hours per year is absurd. And many of the teachers were mad because they did not think of themselves as employees nor want to be. Lets figure out the benefit we are trying to achieve and go straight for it rather than the catch-all system that often does not fit our current environment. Another bizarre regulation is that a nonprofit has to register to raise money in each and every state if they put a donate button on a website. Each state is bizarrely different. There are firms that outsource this registration function which is a tax on our non-profits. This is dumb. States should not penalize nonprofits in this way. What should the United States do? Universal Health Care. Universal Retirement Accounts that are not attached to companies. In general, stop assuming we are living in factory towns with employment for life, and therefore change the regulations to reflect our current world. What should states do? How about uniform regulations for companies with fewer than 50 employees in a state before jumping in with non-standard regulations? One uniform regulation for all small businesses could be defined and state legislatures could adopt. Then states would have the incentive to adopt the uniform rules for small businesses in order to be attractive to small businesses which are becoming increasingly distributed. Distributed organizations are becoming more common– lets not penalize those that want to hire United States residents. Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment Uber…. but Decentralized? Posted on August 26, 2020 by Brewster Kahle What would it take to make an app that would work like Uber, but without the corporate entity? And without the high percentage that goes to Uber. Hum… Let’s take some of the needed parts… Hailing a driver: a rider wants to know the driver is safe, closest, and the price. On the safety issue, let’s suppose a really good reputation system (see below). “Closest” can be done by integrating a good map app (see below). And a price– this could be as simple as a set function of per-ride, per mile, and per minute. Paying a driver: could be as easy as crypto/bitcoin being paid part as the ride starts and the rest as it ends. But there could be more complicated parts of this where there is a 3rd party that takes a bit, that may pay the app developer (see below). If there is a 3rd party, don’t we have Uber? Maybe, but could be much lighter weight. There are also contracts in ethereum that could help with arbitration in the case of disputes. A reputation system: Seems we need a strong reputation system. Yelp, it has been said, has been corrupted, and it is difficult to avoid this. Reddit? Slashdot? Maybe a mixture of up-vote/down-votes from anyone, and mixing in social network to favor your friends, or maybe subscribing to aggregators of reputations… Map App: Google has nailed this, but I bet a rideshare app puts lots of load on it. We might need a per-ride payment to go to the map provider. Price and payment: could be one price per ride, and this has advantages. What if a rider could pre-tip, or a driver could pre-discount? That might help those that do not have good reputations yet. Does a rider pick between drivers, and vice versa? Since bitcoin is not widely used yet… how about google/apple pay? Venmo? Paypal? Some of these have evolved pretty anonymous payments. Evolving the app: what if there were many apps competing for the riders and drivers– what if it evolved into a system where the apps were somewhat compatible so a driver could run many apps at once and they would compete for her business. Then the apps would need reputations as well, and they could evolve different algorithms. Does the app provider get a piece of the action? If this could work, it could mean rapidly evolving ecosystem with many players at every level. It could go very wrong– a great movie that shows this is Nerve (worth watching). It could be used for escort services and other match-making functions. Anyway, I like the mental excersize of ______ but decentralized, where _____ is your favorite cool thing. Google Docs, Tesla, Slack, WordPress, Internet Archive… (and has this already been done?) Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments Libraries vs Bookstores? No, False dichotomy. They are different Animals Posted on July 28, 2020 by Brewster Kahle Internet Archive in San Francisco Barnes and Noble Booksellers There is a recent written attack on libraries that I find odd and somewhat dangerous– libraries overlap too much with new-book bookstores. At first I thought it was trolling, but I now believe it is si...
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