>how gig workers struggle to actually turn a profit thanks to all the costs that get offloaded onto them, Well, OK, I guess they could not do that then? McDona

>how gig workers struggle to actually turn a profit thanks to all the costs that get offloaded onto them, Well, OK, I guess they could not do that then? McDonalds is hiring in NYC and paying a minimum of $16 an hour. I do feel for people in that situation, but they're just getting greased in the collision between, on the one side, techno-utopian companies that want to bring in automation ASAP to eliminate their jobs and, on the other, big labor that is threatened by the gig-economy model and believes the better outcome is just for the jobs not to exist. I'm pretty sure that the participants in the gig economy just wanted it to pay a bit better, rather than for it to get annihilated. I guess you find out who your friends really are.