{"id":7048082,"date":"2026-08-26T01:59:35","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T01:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/american-history\/finance-history-and-policy-helping-hand\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T01:59:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T01:59:35","slug":"finance-history-and-policy-helping-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7048082","title":{"rendered":"Finance: History and Policy: Helping Hand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-body-8407648406954701308\" itemprop=\"description articleBody\">\n<p>\u00a0NB: I didn&#8217;t win the prize for this idea.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;\">0.<br \/>\nBackground and Origin<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent: .25in;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;\">As<br \/>\na recent transplant to Austin, I remain amazed at the proliferation of AVs. It<br \/>\nis difficult, except on airport runs, to find rideshares driven by humans and,<br \/>\nat any given intersection, up to half the vehicles in view are AVs, many of<br \/>\nwhich are empty. That prompted me to think about ways to keep both drivers and<br \/>\nAVs more fully employed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: .25in; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;\"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\"><span style=\"mso-list: Ignore;\">1.<span style=\"font: 7.0pt &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><!--[endif]--><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;\">Title and The Idea In One Sentence<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;\">Helping<br \/>\nHand<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent: .5in;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;\">Thanks<br \/>\nto the rise of AVs and inexpensive service apps, Helping Hand can keep drivers<br \/>\nemployed meeting numerous human needs, in addition to rides, with a single<br \/>\nintegrated service app.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;\"><br \/>2. Executive Summary \u2013 The Essence of the Idea<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent: .5in;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;\">People<br \/>\nwant to move from A to B, a service that AVs can now often provide, freeing up<br \/>\ndrivers to earn by meeting <i>other human needs<\/i> requiring physical presence<br \/>\nthat AI-enabled robots (AI bots) cannot yet do.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent: .5in;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;\">Helping<br \/>\nHand keeps drivers in vehicles to provide services like driving (when the AVs<br \/>\ncannot due to connectivity issues, inclement weather, or emergency situations<br \/>\nwhen rules need to be broken), security (of the AV and for passengers),<br \/>\ndelivery (door-to-door), niche personal services (childcare, cooking, cleaning,<br \/>\nbasic friendship, maintenance, or translation services, tutoring), and<br \/>\ncommunity services (community watch, first responder assistance, legal aid,<br \/>\nwitness).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 0in; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo2; text-indent: 0in;\"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\"><span style=\"mso-list: Ignore;\">3.<span style=\"font: 7.0pt &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><!--[endif]--><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;\">Why<br \/>\nThis Is a Good Idea for Workers<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent: .5in;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;\">Helping<br \/>\nHand could materially help drivers by giving them multiple, flexible<br \/>\nopportunities to earn. Nobody is born a rideshare driver. Like everyone else, rideshare<br \/>\ndrivers possess multiple interests and talents that go undeveloped when their time<br \/>\nis spent driving, which requires their 100 percent attention. Finding reliable<br \/>\ncustomers to provide other services is also time-consuming.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent: .5in;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;\">Helping<br \/>\nHand reduces both costs by freeing drivers from actual driving most of the<br \/>\ntime, by matching them with people in need of their other skills and by acting<br \/>\nas an intermediary so that both parties remain safe and \u201cget paid or get aid.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent: .5in;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;\">As<br \/>\nthe population ages and de-skilling continues, and as people increasingly live<br \/>\nalone or with strangers, the need for a helping hand (hence Helping Hand) has<br \/>\ngrown. That help may be needed immediately and be something any adult human can<br \/>\ndo but something that AI bots cannot currently do, like plunging a clogged<br \/>\nsink, babysitting for an hour, or delivering food quickly.<a href=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/rober\/Documents\/Articles\/Humans%20on%20Call.docx#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\" style=\"mso-footnote-id: ftn1;\" title=\"\"\/> Or it might entail a<br \/>\nhigher skill level, like tutoring sixth grade math, but be needed only<br \/>\nintermittently, like when the regular tutor cancels.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent: .5in;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;\">Helping<br \/>\nHand would vet their drivers on their driving skills but also whatever other<br \/>\nskilled services the driver wishes to offer. Maybe one can play bridge or<br \/>\neuchre to make a foursome while another can offer violin lessons or round out a<br \/>\nfocus group. Maybe some can do all that plus paint the exterior of a house or<br \/>\ndetail an automobile, AV or otherwise.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent: .5in;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;\">Local<br \/>\ngovernments might also tap drivers whenever they need someone to direct<br \/>\ntraffic, or to help first responders pass out blankets and water after an<br \/>\napartment fire, or to witness the police reading an accused his Miranda rights<br \/>\nwhere bodycams remain unreliable.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent: .5in;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;\">For<br \/>\nsome relatively more complex tasks that Helping Hand has not certified the<br \/>\ndriver in, the driver can be sent instructional videos to review while en route<br \/>\nto the call.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent: .5in;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;\">Helping<br \/>\nHand will prove most helpful to drivers who are flexible workers and quick<br \/>\nlearners or with existing skills that are most in-demand and least able to be<br \/>\ndone by AI bots.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 0in; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo3; text-indent: 0in;\"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\"><span style=\"mso-list: Ignore;\">4.<span style=\"font: 7.0pt &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><!--[endif]--><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;\">How<br \/>\nImplementation Would Work<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent: .5in;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;\">Helping<br \/>\nHand would need a corporate charter, applicable licenses, and startup funds. It<br \/>\nwould need to contract with existing AV ride services, delivery apps and work<br \/>\nservice apps, and with local public service providers like police and fire<br \/>\ndepartments. Those contracts should be voluntary and entered only when the<br \/>\nmarginal benefit of the services provided exceeds the marginal cost. A fire<br \/>\ndepartment, for example, might willingly pay $20\/hr. for on-call, unskilled<br \/>\nhelp at fire scenes in lieu of tying up one or more higher paid, higher skilled<br \/>\nworkers. A police department might pay $10\/hr. for community watch services in<br \/>\nhigh crime neighborhoods and so forth. Insurers might pay a flat fee for a driver<br \/>\nto arrive and take pictures of a fender bender or other claim event. Ditto<br \/>\nnewspapers that want to ensure that pictures being sent in by citizen<br \/>\njournalists are legitimate and not AI-generated.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent: .5in;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;\">Most<br \/>\nimportantly, Helping Hand would need an app that would coordinate service calls<br \/>\nbetween all those entities, matching the appropriate drivers to specific needs,<br \/>\nand prioritizing calls per contract specifications. Those are merely<br \/>\nengineering problems that AI can presumably overcome.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 0in; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo4; text-indent: 0in;\"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\"><span style=\"mso-list: Ignore;\">a.<span style=\"font: 7.0pt &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><!--[endif]--><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;\">Financing<br \/>\n\u2013 if Helping Hand is a nonprofit, it needs to fundraise through grants. If it<br \/>\nis a commercial venture, perhaps an employee-owned for-profit corporation, it<br \/>\nneeds VC backing. Parties will contract only if marginal benefits exceed costs,<br \/>\nso it is at least budget neutral.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 0in; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo5; text-indent: 0in;\"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\"><span style=\"mso-list: Ignore;\">b.<span style=\"font: 7.0pt &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><!--[endif]--><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;\">Complementary<br \/>\npolicies \u2013 minimum wage, occupational licensing, and scope of practice laws<br \/>\nwill need to be relaxed or jettisoned so that drivers are not subject to<br \/>\nonerous fees or education requirements. Drivers may be in the car but providing<br \/>\nno services or only low-paid incidental services (community watch, physical<br \/>\nprotection of the AV) during parts of their shifts. Likewise, they may be asked<br \/>\nto perform services currently legally provided only by licensed professionals.<br \/>\n(In some jurisdictions, even cutting gum out of a child\u2019s hair for pay would<br \/>\nconstitute illegal practice of hairdressing.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;\">5.<br \/>\nConcerns, Obstacles, and Risks<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent: .5in;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;\">If<br \/>\nrun as a nonprofit enterprise, Helping Hand might prove too little, too late in<br \/>\nterms of protecting drivers from AV proliferation. If it is run as a commercial<br \/>\nenterprise and is not employee-owned, it might simply prove an intermediary in<br \/>\nthe exploitation of drivers. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent: .5in;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;\">If<br \/>\na nonprofit, inaction may prove its biggest foe. If it is successful, either as<br \/>\na nonprofit or a for-profit, competitors may arise and profit by reducing<br \/>\ndriver remuneration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;\">6.<br \/>\nAdditional Details<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 0in; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo6; text-indent: 0in;\"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\"><span style=\"mso-list: Ignore;\">a.<span style=\"font: 7.0pt &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><!--[endif]--><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;\">Political<br \/>\nand Coalition Dynamics<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent: .25in;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;\">Most<br \/>\nopposition would come from people seeking more radical policies, like a UBI, or<br \/>\nmore reactionary ones designed to slow the adoption of AVs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: .25in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo7; tab-stops: list .25in; text-indent: -.25in;\"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\"><span style=\"mso-list: Ignore;\">b.<span style=\"font: 7.0pt &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><!--[endif]--><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;\">Legal Considerations<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent: .25in;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;\">In<br \/>\naddition to minimum wage and licensing laws, insurance will be a major<br \/>\nconsideration. When they drive at all, drivers will be driving vehicles owned<br \/>\nby AV companies, not their own vehicles. Helping Hand would presumably insure<br \/>\ncustomers against any damages that drivers may cause rendering other services<br \/>\nand also insure drivers against any damages that customers may inflict on them.<\/span><\/p>\n<ol start=\"3\" style=\"margin-top: 0in;\" type=\"a\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-list: l0 level1 lfo8; tab-stops: list .5in;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;\">Precedents &amp; Analogues<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent: .25in;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;\">Precedents<br \/>\nand analogues abound. The key novelty is putting service providers into<br \/>\nvehicles that would be in motion anyway and giving customers a one-stop service<br \/>\nsolution from which to order a ride, a pizza, or someone to hold a ladder while<br \/>\nthe homeowner cleans the gutters on his house.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;\">7. Key<br \/>\nOpen Questions<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent: .5in;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;\">What<br \/>\npercentage of current drivers will relish the opportunity to diversify income<br \/>\nstreams while doing basic, though highly variegated, work?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent: .5in;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;\">What<br \/>\npercentage of government bureaucracies will be able to see the value in<br \/>\nsummoning extra unskilled aid on demand?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent: .5in;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;\">Will<br \/>\nwealthy individuals or NGOs use Helping Hand to bolster protests, marches, and<br \/>\nso forth? And, if so, how will governments and the public react?<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"mso-element: footnote-list;\"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><br clear=\"all\"\/><\/p>\n<hr align=\"left\" size=\"1\" width=\"33%\"\/>\n<p><!--[endif]--><\/p>\n<div id=\"ftn1\" style=\"mso-element: footnote;\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/rober\/Documents\/Articles\/Humans%20on%20Call.docx#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\" style=\"mso-footnote-id: ftn1;\" title=\"\"\/> <span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;\">AV delivery services are currently<br \/>\nbeing tested in Austin but the little boxes, essentially just heater-coolers on<br \/>\nwheels, are clearly inadequate outside of downtown areas in good weather.<br \/>\nThieves are already cracking them for their delicious contents.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0NB: I didn&#8217;t win the prize for this idea.\u00a0 0. 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