What people don’t understand is that pay isn’t everything.
Like remote work, people will accept being paid less to enjoy the benefits of flexibility that gig work provides, which ends up being better than getting paid more but being stuck to a rigid routine.
There is also more upward mobility in gig work as you can optimize over time to earn more, which isn’t possible in some jobs.
Believe me, if gig work was so shitty, people wouldn’t be doing it.
There’s also some hacks to reduce individual expenses like sharing a car with someone else who works different hours, etc.
The problem isn’t that gig work is low pay, the real problem is everything has gotten so expensive. Gig work was always going to be low pay.
Like remote work, people will accept being paid less to enjoy the benefits of flexibility that gig work provides, which ends up being better than getting paid more but being stuck to a rigid routine.
There is also more upward mobility in gig work as you can optimize over time to earn more, which isn’t possible in some jobs.
Believe me, if gig work was so shitty, people wouldn’t be doing it.
There’s also some hacks to reduce individual expenses like sharing a car with someone else who works different hours, etc.
The problem isn’t that gig work is low pay, the real problem is everything has gotten so expensive. Gig work was always going to be low pay.