The Gig Economy represents the decline of the American Middle Class, as people who would have been able to find white-collar work or stable and well-paying blue-collar work 15-20 years ago now have to enter the service economy and perform low-level jobs, many of which require little or no specialized skills.
For some reason we celebrate this trend as a society and laud its positives (e.g. being able to determine one's own work schedule), but in a decade or two the problems will become obvious and hard to ignore, as many gig workers find themselves too old to work but with no retirement savings, for example.
For some reason we celebrate this trend as a society and laud its positives (e.g. being able to determine one's own work schedule), but in a decade or two the problems will become obvious and hard to ignore, as many gig workers find themselves too old to work but with no retirement savings, for example.