While they're at it, they can bring back piecemeal (pay per item) as an alternative to subscriptions
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Agree. The “everything as a subscription” model is also a stupid clusterfuck.
In somewhat related news, I’ve been telling employers that dollars-per-hour is a shit way to pay employees, because almost no employment is paying for time. They’re paying for stuff to be done. So why not pay per unit of stuff done?
Usually because stuff done is not easily quantifiable, or varies in value. Things like fruit picking it's far easier to quantify.
For sure. Totally correct.
Designing a new pay structure certainly wouldn’t be easy—and it might have to be done on a business-to-business basis—however, it would likely be a worthwhile effort.