The Gig Economy Was Always A Scam

"The quieter you become,"...

THE WHAT?! MICHAEL I SWEAR STOP WEARING TWO PART T'S AND NOT STANDING UP AT ANY POINT, I'M GOING MAD!

Anecdotally, Uber and Lyft were a great way for me to turn spare time into spare dollars. I had two full time jobs and one once or twice a week job as a trivia host that covered the bills, but I could make about $300 extra per week if I drove Uber and/or Lyft either a few hours a night a few nights per week or several hours in one night.

I was mostly filling the bar thirty rides to and from the bars, late night street pharmacist deliveries, and early morning airport runs niches. Quite the diverse crowd.

One of those full time (hours not benefits) jobs was pizza delivery. So it made zero sense to me that people would want to deliver for door dash or uber eats, when they're literally only getting tips, none of the hourly pay or mileage that a delivery driver normally gets, for all the same hassle and then some.

Heck, with regular delivery jobs, we only have to stop at one restaurant, the delivery area is a set boundary, and there are so many regular customers that eventually GPS becomes redundant. Oh, and probably most importantly, you're covered by the restaurant's insurance on your way to and from the delivery. With the apps, you're only nominally covered during the delivery, and your insurance won't cover you during it.

Please please don’t give AI and 1 person too much power the rest of us will suffering

Uber type gig economy is heading into heavy investment of owning fleet of FSD eV cars like traditional taxi services.

Then business city are heading into AGI with workerless office workers in the workplace. Office workers work from home and business city is a Ghost city.
By then Uber fleet of FSD eV cars have no riders to pick up and go busted bankrupt. Driverless car = empty car with no riders. Ebike escooter rental fill in the short trip rides in the ghost city.
Restaurants go busted in ghost city and drown the Ubereats delivery go busted too.

it's as if they have worked out a way of gaining human labour that is necessary for jobs, without also taking on the employee. that is to say, they (gig economy employers) have benefitted from the labour of someone, without that someone having the benefit of working. these contracts are contracting someones labour, not contracting an employee.

I have a job. It’s a side gig, that’s all. It’s great on so many levels. You aren’t owed anything. Don’t drive. You knew what you had with your eyes wide open unless you are a fool.

Wow, the comments on this one are at least as informative as the video

Every drone pilot should stay clear of Bess360. An app based platform where drone pilots are classified as independent contractors to complete inspections for home insurance underwriting and claims. I can’t think of one right granted to independent contractors they aren’t violating. Even worse is how they are basically getting away with it through the use of independent contractor agreements and the assumption that no one will report them to the IRS or Department of Labor.

The problem with self driving cost is the expense to buy the vehicles + the wear and tear of the vehicle + hiring employees to maintain the vehicles. It would end Uber and lyft.

Yes, it will eventually collapse. Just like wework.

So a bunch of greedy techbros inserting themselves as intermediaries with shittier and pricier services ruins things? Say it ain’t so!

What does your shirt says?

She didn't sound that smart with that hypothesis.

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The gig workers offering mobile service have always been an attitude problem. Reality doesn't change. If the work is uneconomic then it only works by lowering standards and rewards for effort as the service co ordinator provider must take a cut. So who insures the actual driver worker and passenger when things go wrong?

They just found a different way to enslave everyone.

disruption is rarer than pink diamonds

And if you don’t have access to employee status, renting or buying a house becomes even harder.

Not a scam it's just not for everybody. I proudly work for a gig outfit it's a locally owned and operated restaurant delivery service. The lady who runs the platform is a personal friend of mine. My bosses are the customers we deliver for and my customers are the restaurants that we pick up from. My wife has a full-time day job with good insurance and other benefits I also am working on a handful of other business projects that are slowly every day making more and more money and although I made the mistake a few years ago of cashing out my 401k from my previous job to keep on car from getting repossessed when I and a thousand other people working for that company at the time suddenly lost our jobs right before Christmas of 2015 I'm gradually building back up my retirement savings in a way where I have better control over it for the future so as to take charge of provision for my non-productive years later in life. Certainly have Ambitions beyond that depending on how fast my projects are successful but I don't want government or anyone else interfering in my ability to work on my own terms not doing me any favors

another one of those things that I'm desperately hope doesn't fully collapse until after I die. None of this will improve until some checks are put on the wealthy CEOs who have no incentive - and therefore no desire - to make things better for their workers. And that'll never happen until money is taken out of politics so this CEOs can't just buy off the people who are in charge of implementing those checks. Essentially, the CEOs control the system. So it'll never get better for *us*.

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When I was in Uni, my uni professor told me that the Ceo’s company gave him a voucher, in which it equals to real money, for him to consider taking a job. He wasn’t even started on working in their project yet but they already smirked him, recruited him, and all the bullshlt. And the job? It’s for him to cast out a new strategy to shut down a mob of union workers. Shut their mouth, shut off, etc. And it made me find myself feel miserable, still recovering myself from personally knowing 1 person who will wholeheartedly corrupted themselves for altitude money is soul crushing, to this day. Anyway, my point is, the Bosses will find every way every every every possible to not pay the laborers even if it means they will have to pay money to the Business Consultant.


Just fukking pay them and rise their money every year aligns by inflation god dam it

Govts allows Walmart to underpay their employees. while using govt to subsidise health, food and housing - nothing new here

Gig economy is a gamble if u win u r your own boss if u loose u can get back to a job. Either way gig economy is here to stay.

I Dublin. The food delivery workers organising an union. The way they got around the invisiblity of gig work was because they were mostly Brizilian and were in the same social cycles.

Its not a scam it just got flooded. Really most of fhese gig jobs are super simple so they got flooded.

Oh no 🙊 the gig is up! 😅

Tell this to the HOLLYWOOD writers.

Marx still relevant to this day. He was right all along.

Hey I love you guys, but you're killing me with all these depressing subjects. Can we get one on a more theoretical philosophy kind of thing again? One that won't make me go "That was interesting, but now I'm sad." Just every now and then, please. Like one of those "Philosophy of a movie" ones. Looking back it's been a whiiiile and every other video is literally "everything sucks now". I know that guys, I don't need you to tell me.

I had gigeconomy app ads on this video…

Corporations will simply rewrite the laws to outlaw independent workers being organized.

Late Stage Capitalism, distilled into a sludge so thick that billionaires pour it on their pancakes.

He's so right. Corporations ruined capitalism.

i dont know lets gives 1% of surviving peoples a bunch of cars with 0% survival chances in the future, and see this thriving economic plan thrives so much its makes record profuits

Just a reminder you can't replace every job so easily with someone who owns a smart phone.

Gig work can be great sometimes because the schedule is very flexible, and the skills required are close to none
However, capitalism, as it always does, discovered a great idea and then turned it into a literally satanic practice. As long as private individuals benefit from ownership of gig work platforms, the workers will suffer. The only way to make things right is to make those platforms, along with the economy as a whole, publicly owned

When I hear the word empower and disrupt I know it means shit

I genuinely despise corporate America and the practices they’re allowed to implement and get away with.

Slavery never ended. It shape-Shifted and put us ALL in chains that can’t be seen.

😢😢Don't like how yall don't credit the instrumental creators

Hey Wisecrack, completely out of left field, but I watched a series called Silo, and it’s all about being stuck in a pretty shit system.

Fantastic characters and great setting, but the final episode kinda gave a conclusion that implied that the system they’ve got sucks, but it could be worse and people shouldn’t try to re-invent the wheel.

It would make a really interesting video talking about corporate produced media and the way alternative systems are represented as shit and we should totally avoid trying them.

Anyways, it’s a bit of a mental dump, but I think that show was quite interesting and they really messed up the landing in terms of messaging.

"Portable benefits" - if only we had some sort of central national arrangement that could ensure that people got the basics, like oh, health insurance regardless of their employment status

we can do things for each other which don't involve $$$ and especially need not involve high-tech. ik we all gotta live, every little way we manage to opt out helps break the power of the capitalist paradigm

my city had cabs that cost $7. now, we barely have cabs

Down with the gig economy.

Up with the gift economy.