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IDK what your dumb deal is here. The gig economy crap isn't bad. It's just another set of options in the sea of crap jobs. If anything it puts pressure on jo

IDK what your dumb deal is here. The gig economy crap isn't bad. It's just another set of options in the sea of crap jobs. If anything it puts pressure on jobs that pay a little better to be more flexible. If these people really thought they were getting the shaft they'd have gone and got other equally crap jobs. We're leaving what was probably one of the lowest unemployment periods in US history. It's not like the bulk of these people couldn't have been mixing paint at Lowes, pushing a broom, manning a cash register at Walmart, schlepping boxes around a warehouse or stripping drain plugs at Jiffy Lube had they felt so inclined to. But instead they took these gig jobs? Why? Because all things considered it was less crappy than the next best also crappy option. >oh for fuck's sake, why don't you just tell people that they should lick the boots of their gig economy no-benefits "employer" some more? get a 2nd or 3rd job just to exist in this late stage capitalist hellscape with 4 roommates in any major city. Stop being dense. Nobody is falling for it. These gig jobs are not typically primary jobs. They make shit primary jobs because the income is variable week to week. They're typically people's 2nd or 3rd job that they can schedule around their primary one.

walrus01 4y ago
Your disdain and callous disregard for the rights of low wage earners living paycheck-to-paycheck or worse is clearly evident in your classist comments on "pushing brooms", "schlepping boxes" or "stripping drain plugs", I will not engage further.
- throwaway0a5e 4y ago
  I used to push brooms, schlepp boxes and strip drain plugs. And I'd go right back to that last one if it paid what tech does (actually I lied, I'd go work in a junkyard, can't strip the drain plug if you never put it back and better work atmosphere). If you want to sugar coat the reality of these jobs you're doing it for yourself, not for them. These jobs are low skill, low pay and low status and the people doing them know it. They have bigger problems then whether specific language choices do or don't offend the sensibilities of the ivory tower crowd.

walrus01 4y ago

Your disdain and callous disregard for the rights of low wage earners living paycheck-to-paycheck or worse is clearly evident in your classist comments on "pushing brooms", "schlepping boxes" or "stripping drain plugs", I will not engage further.

throwaway0a5e 4y ago
I used to push brooms, schlepp boxes and strip drain plugs. And I'd go right back to that last one if it paid what tech does (actually I lied, I'd go work in a junkyard, can't strip the drain plug if you never put it back and better work atmosphere). If you want to sugar coat the reality of these jobs you're doing it for yourself, not for them. These jobs are low skill, low pay and low status and the people doing them know it. They have bigger problems then whether specific language choices do or don't offend the sensibilities of the ivory tower crowd.