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>It was a mix of desperate mid-life crisis guys looking for cash, clean-cut naive younger people, and diligent moms starting a business. Something struck me as
by bilbo0s 7y ago
>It was a mix of desperate mid-life crisis guys looking for cash, clean-cut naive younger people, and diligent moms starting a business.
Something struck me as a bit familiar about those descriptions. And then I remembered, around here, it matches up with the demographics of the gig economy types. Uber, food delivery, etc. Only difference being the gig economy types are drawn more from the poor. I wonder if the desperate who are poor do gig economy jobs, whereas the desperate who are middle or upper middle class, (or those who like to think of themselves as middle class culturally anyway), tend to go for the "start a business" MLM thing?
- yardie 7y ago> the desperate who are middle or upper middle class I find they tend to do both. The poor won't have the capital nor credit to be an Uber driver. The middle class will engage in both. I've had my share of Uber/Lyft drivers also hawking Herbalife.
- Spooky23 7y agoUber is all of the above. Some people are middle class folks selling car depreciation at a loss. As rates drop there are fewer of these folks. A lot of these guys now are subcontractors in my area. Drivers frequently don’t match the picture and the standards for the cars drop. My final Uber ride was a male driver (expecting a female) in a 2006/7 Odyessy that was beat to shit. I used to do work in systems for motor carrier regulation and its likely that the car and driver were unsuitable for passenger service. I had to get to the airport, but I deleted the app immediately afterwards.
- Spooky23 7y agoYou have to have a job and at least some cash to do MLM. Gig jobs are basically the equivalent of day labor. The people doing Uber gigs would be digging ditches or humping things around years ago.