The point of technology and capitalism is to make mankind more efficient and do the same things with less resources. The gig economy reflects that companies are automating more and need less labor.
This should be a bood thing, except we're stuck in a system that needs everyone to have a job. I don't know exactly what a new system would look like, but i think it will have to start with a little more socialism and distributing the vast resources a tiny few people have more equitably.
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The point of technology and capitalism is to make mankind more efficient and do the same things with less resources. The gig economy reflects that companies are automating more and need less labor.
This should be a bood thing, except we're stuck in a system that needs everyone to have a job. I don't know exactly what a new system would look like, but i think it will have to start with a little more socialism and distributing the vast resources a tiny few people have more equitably.
Workers aren't significantly more efficient in this new gig economy. This doesn't justify low pay, gigs and economic instability.
Evolution of employment: from full-time to contractors to gigs (freelance) to mechanical turk.