Monday, 17th July 2017, 15:18 by Siegurt
If thrust of your question is "Do people change behavior to avoid paying more tax than they need to" the answer is "yes", there's lots of places where this is currently used by governments to alter behavior, for example a higher tax is imposed on a popular bridge used for commuting, to lower the traffic on that bridge and spread the traffic out so there's less jams coming into a city. Our city imposed a 'sugar tax' recently on sweetened drinks, to discourage their consumption (although I think in that case it's more symbolic, and really will only have an impact in raising awareness, rather than actually being a financial disincentive)
Now I'm not sure what motive a government would have to try to get people to "have lots of jobs" but I have no doubt that people in a capitalist society would find a way to make enough money to survive, there's lots of complexity in how you would structure such a law though, there's currently temp agencies that have employees work several small jobs under one employer, I assume that wouldn't qualify for "lots of jobs" but having "distinct employers" could be bypassed by having subsidiaries of a master company 'hire' the employee several times, or even having consortia of companies that farm out employees to each other (so you are working for company a, then company b hires you for a 'second job' where you work at company a, and company b charges company a for your time, etc. etc. so you end up "really" doing a single job for a single company, but get paychecks from several sources) In a practical sense, your specific example has lots of problems with implementation, even if the motivation was a real one (and I don't see why it would be the case that it would be)
Related to 'expertise loss': There are already a fair number of jobs that exist that are done on a short term, contract type basis, or that are done part time, some of which require expertise, some of which do not. For example I have a friend that works IT, but not for a large IT company, or in a large company for an IT department, what he does is he provides IT services to a large number of small businesses (often single owner-operator or less than a dozen employees) on a contract, as-needed basis, so he ends up working for several different clients in any given week, and gets a "paycheck" from each of them. Although technically he's actually just getting paid from his *own* company, which might violate the OP's conditions. His expertise is in the *type* of work done, not invested in a specific client.
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