The suggestion is that it might be a bad thing... for the people trying to make a living in the 'sharing economy'
> As Sarah Kessler discovered in her Fast Company investigation, it's hard to make it in the sharing economy. Many of the people renting out their labor and goods through these services will end up making a fraction of what they did at their full-time jobs, and having none of the benefits.
I read the article and the suggestion I got from it is that there is no real present alternatives…
> But what's getting them to the threshold in the first place is a damaged economy, and harmful public policy that has forced millions of people to look to odd jobs for sustenance.
Then again, it's hard to "make it" in general, and when one isn't the one designing/building the systems that people live by, you're most likely not going to be "making it".
The suggestion is that it might be a bad thing... for the people trying to make a living in the 'sharing economy'
> As Sarah Kessler discovered in her Fast Company investigation, it's hard to make it in the sharing economy. Many of the people renting out their labor and goods through these services will end up making a fraction of what they did at their full-time jobs, and having none of the benefits.