Yes, the gig economy sucks; No, it’s not fulfilling its promise of freedom

GiveGet
5 min readMay 13, 2019

Despite having worked in the gig economy and experiencing the purported advantages of working outside a full time employee arrangement — or perhaps because of this — I am somewhat hostile to this new form of work because it clearly and unfairly advantages one side (business) over the other (the people who perform the labour) in new and perverse ways.

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