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People are not choosing between full time work and the gig economy. They are choosing between unemployment and the gig economy.
by saas_co_de 9y ago
People are not choosing between full time work and the gig economy. They are choosing between unemployment and the gig economy.
- jstanley 9y agoSo how exactly is the gig economy harming them? Would you rather see these people unemployed?
- colechristensen 9y agoThis is just false though. The guy who was the creator of a local web design business driving me around on a weekend afternoon wasn't choosing between unemployment and the gig economy, he was supplementing his income while worked on his dream. The programmer giving me a ride to SFO from the peninsula wasn't choosing against unemployment, we had worked at the same company in similar positions, we had a great time talking about how things were going. He was just making money as he commuted home. The Afghani translator who immigrated after the war was a student making money over the weekend on his own schedule. Neither of us understood football at all. A lot of the things I pay for "gig economy" employees to do are things I think would be awful as full time jobs, it would make me sad to support a business that put people in the position where that was their life. When it's optional, people using those bits of work to fill in the gaps or add a bit of extra on top of whatever else they were doing with their life, I am a lot happier to support those workers and those businesses. Not so say that the businesses are doing everything perfect, but I think it's obvious that the 'lead generation' role (companies like uber, lyft, etc) are going to become more of commodities to the benefits of the workers using them.