Gig economy is the mass exploitation of millennials
When a city or a people succumb to the gig economy, they reduce the protection set up by the state to keep people either employed and well feed or unemployed and taken care of by the state. Conveniently, gig workers are no longer counted against the unemployment numbers because they are no longer looking for work, so the state looks great and their currency rises.<p>Cities across the world have been turning a blind eye on Uber&#x2F;Lyft and their traditional taxi drivers are suffering. Cities are turning a blind eye on Airbnb&#x2F;VRBO and their tax payers are suffering. This is just the beginning as delivery services are becoming gig-iffied and so are other business models.<p>Soon, some semblance of job security and minimum wage will be laughable qualities only attributed to state employees the same way we treat pension funds today.