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   Captain Haddock wrote:

  To quote today's FT:-
  
  The second myth is that tax and employment law changes are somehow necessitated by the recent rise of the so-called gig economy. Yet the structural problems have been with us for many years. New forms of work, like their older counterparts, mean real entrepreneurship and independence for some, and exploitation for others. This is nothing new. London dock workers in centuries past faced the same problem as the zero-hours and agency workers of today: a shift of business risk from the enterprise to individuals, through contracts stipulating self-employment, a lack of guaranteed hours and demands for individual incorporation. Thinking of gig economy-specific regulation misses the point: the underlying issue is an inequality of bargaining power in labour markets with a surplus of individuals seeking work — at any cost.
  
  
  As long as we have an extra 300,000+ flooding the labour market each year what do you expect?
  
  I honestly wish politics and economics were as simple as you seem to think they are. If they were we would already be living in Shangri-La on Thames.

  
  Did the first myth rubbish the second myth?

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