Exactly. People are missing this point. This isn't a case of clocking out at one job and going to the next like the old days. The advent of high speed internet combined with the push to allow people to work from home has created this loophole that people are exploiting. My hat goes off to the people working two full time jobs the old school way. My hat also goes off to the people who are doing it remotely, but it is in fact a loophole that diminishes the value of everyone else wages because said individual is getting paid twice for the same number of hours. I have a hard time believing that those exploiting this loophole are really working twice as hard in concurrent hours. In fact, the reason they even have the thought of finding another job to do in parallel is because they're not really working all the hours of their first job to begin with. Moreover, if this practice was totally kosher as people claim, then the question is why do people doing this feel the need to hide it from their employers?
The way I look at this is like this:
Would I want my doctor holding a zoom meeting for his/her other job during my procedure? No...? Well, then why is it okay for someone else in any other field to do the same? It is a matter of productivity. Wages have been tied to hours of productivity since the invention of money. If you are supposed to work 9 hours, you are paid according to those 9 hours with the assumption that you are putting in 9 hours worth of work. Some fields are such that you can power through your work in a shorter amount of time. Nothing new there. However, you were still expected to be available for the remainder of those hours. The value of wages are baked into those hours. Getting paid by an unwitting employer for those same hours is essentially cheating the system and it diminishes the value of everyone else's wages bc they don't have the opportunity to work two jobs in parallel even if they wanted to. So it's not like these people are just working harder than everybody else. They're just exploiting the system.
To another person's point, we certainly don't want people to work less in this country, but the idea that people are being equally productive while working two jobs in parallel is a farce. And as such, they are cheating the system in a way. Because again, they are making double wages for the same work. Which in turn means your hard earned in-person wages is worth half of theirs. Can you then blame your mechanic, private contractor, construction worker, or any in-person worker for demanding 2x wages to make up the difference? Ultimately, the concept of wages would not hold up and the system would fall apart. Mad max barter system, here we come!
