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You're assuming that it's a choice people want to make. If you talk to a few gig economy workers it becomes pretty clear that many of them would much prefer a
by mdorazio 9y ago
You're assuming that it's a choice people want to make. If you talk to a few gig economy workers it becomes pretty clear that many of them would much prefer a 9-5 job with decent pay and benefits, but are unable to find such jobs.
- fosk 9y agoThese apps wouldn’t exist in the first place without these caveats since they operate on thin margins. Sure, we could put them out of business and then how will that help people who can’t find a regular job? At least now they have options. Also we have a big problem with unskilled workforce nowadays - if you are unskilled by choice or (unfortunately) by circumstances this world is not going to be kind on you. That’s the sad truth.
- colechristensen 9y agoThe deal is, I have, I am not assuming. There are a lot of people I have met personally who seem honestly to want the situation. Many of them are people seeking a little extra money, a way to fund a new car, something to hold them over between jobs, a way to pick their own schedule... I have had a lot of conversations with a lot of workers in the gig economy and never have heard "I wish this was my full time job". Maybe that is the random set of people I've interacted with, maybe there is a bias for what people want to talk about. What is absolutely clear though, is that a sizable amount of people participating in the gig economy are doing so because they want to take advantage of how it works, not despite how it works. Many of them had other jobs, many of them clearly wouldn't want a full time job doing the gig.