Gigged: The Gig Economy, the End of the Job and the Future of Work

unemployed Americans received unemployment benefits from state programs—

“Uber has experimented with video game techniques, graphics and noncash rewards of little value that can prod drivers into working longer and harder—and sometimes at hours and locations that are less lucrative for them.”

Workers in the gig economy were disproportionately poor.

the potential to chop up a broad array of traditional jobs into discrete tasks that can be assigned to people just when they’re needed, with wages set by a dynamic measurement of supply and demand,

Portable benefits are social insurance programs that aren’t tied to an employer but rather move with workers

2.5% of worker pay into a worker benefit account.

am not poor. I am just … nobody.”

and the majority are doing it full-time because they need the money.”

credit card.