There’s more to the gig economy than deliveries and taxies STABLE jobs are vanishing, the old fashioned nine-to-five is already a distant memory, and everyone will be working multiple alternating jobs and contracts in the coming “gig economy”. That’s the picture of an impending techno-revolution painted just as often by worried activists as by Silicon Valley’s elite of entrepreneurial visionaries.
For some, the gig economy is the latest form of wage slavery, where tech-savvy corporations have made workers as disposable as yesterday’s congealing takeaway; for others, it offers a new era of so-called freedom where whip-smart youngsters apparently look for […]
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