Uber driving is not a job, and they are not, "hitting the reset button," on labor rights. Uber just facilitates the transaction between the drivers and the passengers, and requires some basic guarantees from the driver such as making them deliver on their side of the deal. Gig work is just like eBay, but for services instead of goods. All of the drivers who use Uber agreed to be in that contract, they weren't forced to drive for Uber against their will. If they are protesting Uber over this, it means they have no other options -- at which point, would they rather just have nothing at all since they don't have any useful skills or the flexibility to get another job? They're pinning the blame on Uber, but really should be blaming themselves. If you're in a bad spot and you have to sell some of your stuff on eBay to pay bills, you wouldn't then blame eBay because you regret selling your stuff for a low price.
Switched from a 9-5 job to having a store on Etsy instead. Now I work 24/7. The freedom to either work non stop or lose your income is amazing let me tell you that.
@@thesfnb.5786 What is going to happen? I know big cities are fuxked in many ways lets say higher rents for an example. But i want to hear what you say about this.
In NYC, the Taxi & Limousine Commission approved a 7.5% increase for Uber drivers per minute which translates to some cents increase in per minute per mile earnings. Uber filed a lawsuit to block this and a judge has since agreed.
My dad is almost 60, he drives for door-dash and uber eats and uber, he makes decent money driving a full sized truck in Tampa FL. He also works in construction and makes most of the money from that. He's been pushing me to get involved in this for a while despite my car not running too great, I could still do the food delivery, but I have a full time job. But at one point I told him about this "gig economy" and how it's great when you don't need it to get by. Once you need to have a side gig just to get by, it's not fun anymore, and there's clearly a larger problem with the system as a whole. When things like Uber started coming out, it was exciting, but everyone seemed to miss the bigger picture, like this video explains.
why is everyone using the working environment of Uber drivers to downgrade gig economy? The real and "glamorous" gig economy is lived by digital designers and developers.
As a Doordash driver full-time I'm letting you know now it's not a lot of money in this. The freedom is something I wouldn't trade but the pay is only $600-700/week at best. I'd still rather do this than a traditional job.
You'll say that until you're older and you have nothing saved and no social security it's not worth it trust me you don't have any freedom it's a fucken illusion
Yep. I can make more at a traditional job but with doordash I travel around the country, I work when and where I want. I take off whenever I want, etc. It's glorious. I'll take all that freedom over more money any day.
@@anuragchakraborty8766 because the mindset has changed since covid people are used to not having a boss and they're willing to lose everything to keep that freedom
I feel like Uber was never meant for a full time job. It’s meant to supplement a job. They need to either hire people properly or accept that and let them do their thing.
Having worked as an Uber driver for years it is only beneficial as side income. Even then tax laws here can be confusing. Doing it as a full time job is possible but you will live in your car pretty much and it’s variable. Plus to be honest it has put me off people to a greater degree than even hospitality work.
Correction: Uber drivers can decline as many request as they want. Even if you accept 0% of the rides you are offered nothing happens. Here in Austin I make about $24 per hour gross, $18 per hour net / profit. It’s great for someone who doesn’t have / want a real career. But I got too many ambitions to get stuck doing this for long… watch out world, here I come!!!
What about the costs of the car, it's maintenance and price of gas? How much are you paying on rent, utilities, food and other items necessary for basic survival?
If every driver had financial education, they’d know to setup an LLC for $125, and begin expensing every single gallon of gas and car payment(something you CANNOT do as an employee) as well as their health insurance, meals, and MUCH more, paying almost no taxes in the end. They’d be better off than employees but almost every person in the gig economy doesn’t know how to do this.
@@jaysmith571 Why are you so sure that it doesn't work like this if you don't know how it actually works? As someone who owns an LLC with a sizable real estate portfolio, you really can write off your business expenses like that. It would make no sense for you to _not_ be able to, because they would be taxing you on money you never made. If you have a business that takes in $1,000,000 gross income, but $800k of that went towards expenses and the profit was only $200k -- then the government tried to tax you on the whole $1m, you wouldn't be able to pay your taxes. No business would exist at all in that scenario. I write off all of my mortgage payments, my property taxes, the payments made to my property manager, and even the CPA i pay to do my taxes.
I see what people went through in the past. Like in the 1800s. Many people had horrible working conditions and no work life balance but they made it work. Maybe being more religious, seeing growth and development, or just the unawareness of mental health by many, let them keep going. I am just so surprised how we have much more going for us yet we seem more pessimist and depressed.
In the past there was an objectively low standard of living all around. Nowadays we don’t have those physical issues but because of social media has become more mental. Delete tiktok, snap, Instagram and keep all your main contacts on WhatsApp or iMessage. Your life will get significantly more productive and less depressing.
Fr i kinda feel bad feeling bad because people back in the day had it so much worse i honestly feel like im undeserving of feeling bad but yet i feel bad
Is this comment on the wrong video? He started this video with a preface of “back in the day, you could have a family of 4 and a house with the income of a single man who only works 4 weeks, while now people work pay check to pay check with a 6 figure salary.” Wouldn’t that logically lead to depression, pessimism? Is this comment on the wrong video?
I still choose this over a normal job. I get to travel the country and work in any city I want. I work when I want for how long I want. I take as many days off as I want. I work at my own pace, etc. I'll take all that over more money any day. Doordash and uber have allowed me to see the country
@@fictionindianspaceprogram-222 well the best is when you get repeat clients to pay in cash. No Social Security/ Medicare deductions! Then you are even less of a slave then someone on a W-2 because they don’t take a bunch of deductions!
I've been doing Uber Eats and it's terrible. Sometimes you get really good money, but a lot of the times it's not even worth it. I hope I'll live to see the downfall of these gig apps.
Why'd you do it in the first place? You're telling me you decided to do work for shitty pay, but then regretted it so you want to burn the whole thing down? Would you have rather just not had any extra money at all? Take some responsibility for your actions, nobody held a gun to your head and demanded that you drive for Uber Eats lmfao
I can tell you from freelancing, that, once you allow global remote working, all the people from India, Pakistan, and the Philippines, will undercut your profession and want to do it for 3$ per hour, even if it's skilled work. There are clients who are willing to pay more, but even those rarely pay fair rates. They'd offer 20$/hour thinking it's "good money" because they heard it's "OK" money for employees, and because the people offering to do the work start at 3$ per hour. But as a contractor, it's not good money because you need to pay for your own equipment and costs, the percentage of the freelancing platform (20% or 10%), retirement, taxes, training, client acquisitions costs, accounting, health insurance, and the lack of hours during dead periods. An employee can survive on 20$/hr because he's guaranteed 40 hours per week. But as a contractor, you're often going to get dead periods where you won't get the hours, and this will eat whatever little money you make. And so when you do calculate your rates, you should set them higher to account for all of this. But clients don't want to pay higher rates. Not when they can find way cheaper alternatives from more desperate people than you and ready to be exploited.
Very hard to work on these apps these days, ppl are manipulating their locations while you work honestly then with the scraps you actually make because of them you have to pay for expenses and taxes
Drivers gained massive leverage during covid. Half the country was self-isolating and a large portion were working from home. These people also had larger disposable incomes during these times. No gas, free government checks and even rent was cancelled. Fast forward to today, the economy is in a massive contraction. The surplus of workers from the pandemic are now saturating the gig market. There's less customers and more drivers. This coming period will hurt but I believe things will improve when inflation, fuel and goods prices stop suppressing family's spending. Hang in there
Uber just facilitates the transaction between the drivers and the passengers, and requires some basic guarantees from the driver such as making them deliver on their side of the deal. Gig work is just like eBay, but for services instead of goods. All of the drivers who use Uber agreed to be in that contract, they weren't forced to drive for Uber against their will. If they are protesting Uber over this, it means they have no other options -- at which point, would they rather just have nothing at all since they don't have any useful skills or the flexibility to get another job? They're pinning the blame on Uber, but really should be blaming themselves. If you're in a bad spot and you have to sell some of your stuff on eBay to pay bills, you wouldn't then blame eBay because you regret selling your stuff for a low price.
I am getting a bit tired of seeing their ads. I actually almost bought into it a year ago but did some research and found out they don't disclose all the fees up front, and also manipulate the earnings stats to make it seem far superior to the S&P index, among some other things.
There are some tax benefits to being listed as an independent contractor, you kind of get more freedom on claiming things as business expenses. Tho not getting any kind of insurance kind of makes it not worth
What is sad about this is that governments will protect uber now that they have established x amount of workers. Having the workers all relocate and get new jobs causes a ripple effect in the economy that damages all businesses. This is essentially how we got here, since minimum wage was established it has not been kept up with inflation and we are all stuck at our jobs unable to move around because everyone is desperate enough to agree to it. Well I am doing my part by not participating. It will be hell for the economy but I don't exactly have other options and nobody with power is looking to fix it.
45 dollars for 6 orders is reeeaaalllyy fkn good around here in washington... the next couple hours they send below minimum orders till they make more than me...
Insightful video. I must state that the (mis)classification of (in)dependent contractors is driving (un)productive employment relationships in the gig economy. If you remove the parentheses you could argue that gig workers are dependent contractors or in other words employees.
Yeah being a small business owner or otherwise working for yourself as a gig worker is not all sunshine and rainbows. You work your butt off. Our economy is greatly run on people choosing this rough life though.
"gig" economy will only get better with more structure, I think. They paved a new way of working and hiring. It's only a matter of time before a large majority of the community become "independent contractors".
I work for Uber and you cancel as many orders as u want to. May acceptance rate is like 8 percent however people that are not smart enough actually lose money working for Uber by taking every single order …. I have seen order for $1.50
Governments first and formost hate gig economies and independant contractors because control in revenue from them is less manageable. They might not care about a specific individual but as a collective its much more of a roller coaster ride so they prefer pushing people doing fixed hours at a bigger franchise.
That might be the case in Extremes in the case of uber with them lowering the payout from the fairs. But not all gig work is the same. I work for a locally owned restaurant delivery service the lady that operates the platform is a close personal friend of mine and the ostensible way we look at the business is that our bosses are the end-user customers that we deliver to and our customers are the restaurants that we deliver for. We deliver for almost a hundred restaurants in the local area. As for benefits my wife has the day job with good insurance and certainly much better Insurance than the job I previously had full-time who's Insurance went to crap as a company. More importantly I get paid based on my efforts not based on an algorithm not based on anything like that I get an order I drop it I get paid for that although I do tend to keep a pretty firm schedule most of the time I can set my own hours as needed with other things that might be going on. But I certainly am fine. Not the least bit worried about my short or long-term economic status. Daily economy is great but it's not for everybody
Nobody has to drive for Uber. They know the wages, continue to drive anyway, and then complain. And if they leave, nothing will change, that's how important they are... hence why they're paid the way they are.
I drive for Uber Eats as a side hustle. With inflation as bad as it is, if I don't side hustle I end up saving $0 dollars at the end of the month, or incur a small loss. Driving for Uber Eats has been a huge windfall for me so far, because now I can deliver for 10-20 hours a week and actually get somewhere with my finances. I'm not sure the gig economy is a great way to make a living, but it's great as a side hustle. I can set my own hours and don't have to be lorded over by an idiot boss.
I'm still in the first 5 min of the video but must say some contractors make a lot of money, like programmers. You can negotiate for the benefits to be relocated to a higher salary and with every skilled workforce, it's not easily expandable. Depende what are you working.
there should be regulations for that, for example, the company pays 50% of it's profits to all the contractors monthly and also for those who Works hours are like fulltime ones in a season(90days), they must get benefits of insurance and other same advantages of regular jobs. it's a good idea but done in a bad execution. it needs to be regulated.
Not entirely agree with your take on the dystopian nature of gig economy, but I can understand the gist of it. I say so since, as a freelancer myself, setting your own rates and being able to entirely negotiate what the gig entails is a big plus for me. Maybe it has to do that I earn dllrs while living in Mexico, but it is still way better for me than a bureaucratic strong arm of a salary job.
posting this here cos you asked a dumb question to your community and I want to share my thoughts, which I think are important, here where more people will see it - when will you talk about investigative journalist whitney webb - when will you fulfil your duty to talk about her research, being that it is the most consequential corruption research in recorded human history? you asked if money can buy happiness... lol we've had the answer to this q many times over the past century, still seeing it here is kind of dumb and makes me lose respect for your channel, but oh well - happiness achieved by income tapers off after around 70k usd, depending on where you are and your costs of living - so nice question, very important question, I'm happy a channel of your size has helped the world to learn this important information that was sarcasm - what are you doing? and why aren't you talking about whitney webb's research? do you feel no sense of responsibility, no sense of duty to help the world to understand money and corruption and the reasons why inflation is at a 50 years high, same as corporate profits? what are you doing, and why are you asking dumb questions that we already have many answers to? are you trying to find a solution, or just stroke the ego of your audience so they feel smart for getting a few hundred upvotes on some regurgitated info we've already seen hundreds of times across the internet? what are you doing?
Dude your videos used to be so good, but at this point you plug so hard for your referral links it's disappointing. You might as well say 'smash that like button and subscribe for the algorithm.'
Its outsourcing without outsourcing. Outsource the job to individuals not employees. Increased profits and less HR hassle and no benefits cheaper workers without traditional outsourcing outside the country. Third world jobs in a 1st class society! Gig economy is just hastening this current economic disaster....
These “gig” or “hustle” economy jobs are really just hitting the reset button on labour rights.
Uber driving is not a job, and they are not, "hitting the reset button," on labor rights. Uber just facilitates the transaction between the drivers and the passengers, and requires some basic guarantees from the driver such as making them deliver on their side of the deal. Gig work is just like eBay, but for services instead of goods.
All of the drivers who use Uber agreed to be in that contract, they weren't forced to drive for Uber against their will. If they are protesting Uber over this, it means they have no other options -- at which point, would they rather just have nothing at all since they don't have any useful skills or the flexibility to get another job?
They're pinning the blame on Uber, but really should be blaming themselves. If you're in a bad spot and you have to sell some of your stuff on eBay to pay bills, you wouldn't then blame eBay because you regret selling your stuff for a low price.
@@youreyesarebleeding1368 That's because you get to pick the price on your stuff.
Switched from a 9-5 job to having a store on Etsy instead. Now I work 24/7. The freedom to either work non stop or lose your income is amazing let me tell you that.
Depressed, overworked, and in debt. Relate much
We all that "pulling yourself by the bootstrap"
@@tycooperaow which is physically impossible lmao
change your life then
@@nightweilder6017 *debt instantly goes away*
@@M4gnetC lmaoooo
As an Uber driver in NYC, this really hit home.
You must have been forced to take the vaccine
Get out of NYC, and the rest of the cities. Things are about to turn bad. I know it's bad, but it's gonna get really bad
@@thesfnb.5786 What is going to happen? I know big cities are fuxked in many ways lets say higher rents for an example. But i want to hear what you say about this.
@@thesfnb.5786 Agreed.
@@TilMayne nothing is going to happen. They’ve been saying this for years whilst putting money in the pockets of those doom and gloom RUclipsrs
In NYC, the Taxi & Limousine Commission approved a 7.5% increase for Uber drivers per minute which translates to some cents increase in per minute per mile earnings. Uber filed a lawsuit to block this and a judge has since agreed.
My dad is almost 60, he drives for door-dash and uber eats and uber, he makes decent money driving a full sized truck in Tampa FL. He also works in construction and makes most of the money from that.
He's been pushing me to get involved in this for a while despite my car not running too great, I could still do the food delivery, but I have a full time job. But at one point I told him about this "gig economy" and how it's great when you don't need it to get by. Once you need to have a side gig just to get by, it's not fun anymore, and there's clearly a larger problem with the system as a whole.
When things like Uber started coming out, it was exciting, but everyone seemed to miss the bigger picture, like this video explains.
why is everyone using the working environment of Uber drivers to downgrade gig economy? The real and "glamorous" gig economy is lived by digital designers and developers.
As a Doordash driver full-time I'm letting you know now it's not a lot of money in this. The freedom is something I wouldn't trade but the pay is only $600-700/week at best. I'd still rather do this than a traditional job.
You'll say that until you're older and you have nothing saved and no social security it's not worth it trust me you don't have any freedom it's a fucken illusion
Yep. I can make more at a traditional job but with doordash I travel around the country, I work when and where I want. I take off whenever I want, etc. It's glorious. I'll take all that freedom over more money any day.
Why? Why is a traditional job worse than a Doordash driver?
@@anuragchakraborty8766 because the mindset has changed since covid people are used to not having a boss and they're willing to lose everything to keep that freedom
@@nomadericand paying bills?
I feel like Uber was never meant for a full time job. It’s meant to supplement a job. They need to either hire people properly or accept that and let them do their thing.
Uber’s main target is to disrupt the Taxi industry.
Having worked as an Uber driver for years it is only beneficial as side income. Even then tax laws here can be confusing. Doing it as a full time job is possible but you will live in your car pretty much and it’s variable. Plus to be honest it has put me off people to a greater degree than even hospitality work.
I worked for Merry Maids for 4 months a while back. Nothing merry about it, and the pay is dreadful.
Correction: Uber drivers can decline as many request as they want. Even if you accept 0% of the rides you are offered nothing happens. Here in Austin I make about $24 per hour gross, $18 per hour net / profit. It’s great for someone who doesn’t have / want a real career. But I got too many ambitions to get stuck doing this for long… watch out world, here I come!!!
What about the costs of the car, it's maintenance and price of gas?
How much are you paying on rent, utilities, food and other items necessary for basic survival?
Some people like yourself get lucky. Still a shit job though. Independent contractor work is ass.
If every driver had financial education, they’d know to setup an LLC for $125, and begin expensing every single gallon of gas and car payment(something you CANNOT do as an employee) as well as their health insurance, meals, and MUCH more, paying almost no taxes in the end.
They’d be better off than employees but almost every person in the gig economy doesn’t know how to do this.
I am sure as easy as it sounds it doesn't work like this
Say that to the IRS
For being a driver you would be able to write off gas on taxes but not sure about meals or health insurance
Moving to a non tax county might help
@@jaysmith571 Why are you so sure that it doesn't work like this if you don't know how it actually works?
As someone who owns an LLC with a sizable real estate portfolio, you really can write off your business expenses like that. It would make no sense for you to _not_ be able to, because they would be taxing you on money you never made. If you have a business that takes in $1,000,000 gross income, but $800k of that went towards expenses and the profit was only $200k -- then the government tried to tax you on the whole $1m, you wouldn't be able to pay your taxes. No business would exist at all in that scenario. I write off all of my mortgage payments, my property taxes, the payments made to my property manager, and even the CPA i pay to do my taxes.
I see what people went through in the past. Like in the 1800s. Many people had horrible working conditions and no work life balance but they made it work. Maybe being more religious, seeing growth and development, or just the unawareness of mental health by many, let them keep going.
I am just so surprised how we have much more going for us yet we seem more pessimist and depressed.
In the past there was an objectively low standard of living all around. Nowadays we don’t have those physical issues but because of social media has become more mental. Delete tiktok, snap, Instagram and keep all your main contacts on WhatsApp or iMessage. Your life will get significantly more productive and less depressing.
Fr i kinda feel bad feeling bad because people back in the day had it so much worse i honestly feel like im undeserving of feeling bad but yet i feel bad
Is this comment on the wrong video? He started this video with a preface of “back in the day, you could have a family of 4 and a house with the income of a single man who only works 4 weeks, while now people work pay check to pay check with a 6 figure salary.” Wouldn’t that logically lead to depression, pessimism? Is this comment on the wrong video?
@popopop984 Nope. Was comparing it to objectively harder times than now or even the 90s.
You think someone working 12 hours a day for dimes in a sweatshop would be happy?
Lol how can u talk about this and promote that scam sponsor
No one comes on RUclips to be nice, they all here to make money and certainly making some good money too. It's better than gig economy.
Hypocrisy and RUclips go hand-in-hand
I still choose this over a normal job. I get to travel the country and work in any city I want. I work when I want for how long I want. I take as many days off as I want. I work at my own pace, etc. I'll take all that over more money any day. Doordash and uber have allowed me to see the country
Yeah I love being a gig worker. I finally feel like I’m not a slave anymore.
💯💯💯💯💯💯
@@yogagirl33you are a slave to the gig app tho
@@fictionindianspaceprogram-222 well the best is when you get repeat clients to pay in cash. No Social Security/ Medicare deductions! Then you are even less of a slave then someone on a W-2 because they don’t take a bunch of deductions!
@@yogagirl33 what about no pension?
I've been doing Uber Eats and it's terrible. Sometimes you get really good money, but a lot of the times it's not even worth it.
I hope I'll live to see the downfall of these gig apps.
Why'd you do it in the first place? You're telling me you decided to do work for shitty pay, but then regretted it so you want to burn the whole thing down? Would you have rather just not had any extra money at all?
Take some responsibility for your actions, nobody held a gun to your head and demanded that you drive for Uber Eats lmfao
I am surprised their isn't a minimum wage for contractors, why do they just get screwed?
Because there's always a contractor who will do it cheaper, but, of course, maybe not as well.
@@ziziroberts8041yes you are right it always someone who will do it cheaper driving down profit.
@@jiggajhood Even worse, driving down quality and safety. Our thinking is at least a bubble out.
I can tell you from freelancing, that, once you allow global remote working, all the people from India, Pakistan, and the Philippines, will undercut your profession and want to do it for 3$ per hour, even if it's skilled work.
There are clients who are willing to pay more, but even those rarely pay fair rates. They'd offer 20$/hour thinking it's "good money" because they heard it's "OK" money for employees, and because the people offering to do the work start at 3$ per hour. But as a contractor, it's not good money because you need to pay for your own equipment and costs, the percentage of the freelancing platform (20% or 10%), retirement, taxes, training, client acquisitions costs, accounting, health insurance, and the lack of hours during dead periods. An employee can survive on 20$/hr because he's guaranteed 40 hours per week. But as a contractor, you're often going to get dead periods where you won't get the hours, and this will eat whatever little money you make. And so when you do calculate your rates, you should set them higher to account for all of this. But clients don't want to pay higher rates. Not when they can find way cheaper alternatives from more desperate people than you and ready to be exploited.
I'm a Flyblack pilot (I wanted to fly passengers, but a commercial license is unobtainable for me), I also have 5 more jobs.
Very hard to work on these apps these days, ppl are manipulating their locations while you work honestly then with the scraps you actually make because of them you have to pay for expenses and taxes
Drivers gained massive leverage during covid. Half the country was self-isolating and a large portion were working from home. These people also had larger disposable incomes during these times. No gas, free government checks and even rent was cancelled. Fast forward to today, the economy is in a massive contraction. The surplus of workers from the pandemic are now saturating the gig market. There's less customers and more drivers. This coming period will hurt but I believe things will improve when inflation, fuel and goods prices stop suppressing family's spending. Hang in there
Uber just facilitates the transaction between the drivers and the passengers, and requires some basic guarantees from the driver such as making them deliver on their side of the deal. Gig work is just like eBay, but for services instead of goods.
All of the drivers who use Uber agreed to be in that contract, they weren't forced to drive for Uber against their will. If they are protesting Uber over this, it means they have no other options -- at which point, would they rather just have nothing at all since they don't have any useful skills or the flexibility to get another job?
They're pinning the blame on Uber, but really should be blaming themselves. If you're in a bad spot and you have to sell some of your stuff on eBay to pay bills, you wouldn't then blame eBay because you regret selling your stuff for a low price.
Having a masterworks ad in the middle of this is hilarious.
I am getting a bit tired of seeing their ads. I actually almost bought into it a year ago but did some research and found out they don't disclose all the fees up front, and also manipulate the earnings stats to make it seem far superior to the S&P index, among some other things.
There are some tax benefits to being listed as an independent contractor, you kind of get more freedom on claiming things as business expenses. Tho not getting any kind of insurance kind of makes it not worth
Never going back to being a W2 employee again
What is sad about this is that governments will protect uber now that they have established x amount of workers. Having the workers all relocate and get new jobs causes a ripple effect in the economy that damages all businesses. This is essentially how we got here, since minimum wage was established it has not been kept up with inflation and we are all stuck at our jobs unable to move around because everyone is desperate enough to agree to it.
Well I am doing my part by not participating. It will be hell for the economy but I don't exactly have other options and nobody with power is looking to fix it.
45 dollars for 6 orders is reeeaaalllyy fkn good around here in washington... the next couple hours they send below minimum orders till they make more than me...
Insightful video. I must state that the (mis)classification of (in)dependent contractors is driving (un)productive employment relationships in the gig economy. If you remove the parentheses you could argue that gig workers are dependent contractors or in other words employees.
The amount of references to portugal amazed me! Are you related to the country in any way?
I honestly enjoy working with Uber. It’s so much freedom and feeding people is fun 💪🏽💯
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Yeah being a small business owner or otherwise working for yourself as a gig worker is not all sunshine and rainbows. You work your butt off. Our economy is greatly run on people choosing this rough life though.
Abraham drives a Lincoln...
master works is not the answer 😑
Flawless ad integration bro
Do not promote masterworks next time please.
Abraham's Lincoln💀
Man come on, if you’re going to sell out to masterworks at least tell them you don’t actually own anything except shares in the company not the art.
"gig" economy will only get better with more structure, I think. They paved a new way of working and hiring. It's only a matter of time before a large majority of the community become "independent contractors".
Great videos but the masterworks sponsor choice is cringey tbh
Important issue, but this video is undermined a bit by the pitch for masterworks, a pretty unethical and unproductive scheme in its own right
Flexibility and freedom (if you can afford it)
He said pandemic years like it happened 30 years ago lmao
I work for Uber and you cancel as many orders as u want to. May acceptance rate is like 8 percent however people that are not smart enough actually lose money working for Uber by taking every single order …. I have seen order for $1.50
Thank you for the upload Aperture! So excited
Uber raising there rate has hurt alot of drivers I switched to doordash part time with my full time job
I'm an online ESL Tutor and I can relate.
GIG WORK IS THE BUSINESS🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉I will be embarking on 7 years here shortly.🎉🎉🎉🎉
Art scam instead of crypto scam. Good job.
Everything is a scam
I don’t get why people don’t just get a real job? The point of these “gigs” were to make extra income if you felt like it.
As I Fiverr freelancer, I can feel what he is trying to say.
Governments first and formost hate gig economies and independant contractors because control in revenue from them is less manageable. They might not care about a specific individual but as a collective its much more of a roller coaster ride so they prefer pushing people doing fixed hours at a bigger franchise.
Absolutely correct. Also, its much harder to tax them compared to W2s as well relying on them as a voter block.
That might be the case in Extremes in the case of uber with them lowering the payout from the fairs. But not all gig work is the same. I work for a locally owned restaurant delivery service the lady that operates the platform is a close personal friend of mine and the ostensible way we look at the business is that our bosses are the end-user customers that we deliver to and our customers are the restaurants that we deliver for. We deliver for almost a hundred restaurants in the local area. As for benefits my wife has the day job with good insurance and certainly much better Insurance than the job I previously had full-time who's Insurance went to crap as a company. More importantly I get paid based on my efforts not based on an algorithm not based on anything like that I get an order I drop it I get paid for that although I do tend to keep a pretty firm schedule most of the time I can set my own hours as needed with other things that might be going on. But I certainly am fine. Not the least bit worried about my short or long-term economic status. Daily economy is great but it's not for everybody
Masterwork is a stupid investment
Gig economy= slavery. (No joke)
Yep
Nobody has to drive for Uber. They know the wages, continue to drive anyway, and then complain. And if they leave, nothing will change, that's how important they are... hence why they're paid the way they are.
“We live in a society.”
f society
We live in a doomed society
you forgot to mention the tax saving available for a private contractor.
Aperture uploads are worthy of waking up for
fr tho
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@Aperture I love the content man, really makes me think.
VFX had always worked this way, and I can testify: it sucks
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Doordash and Lyft especially take advantage of new contractors that are still learning the system. Not cool at all!
I drive for Uber Eats as a side hustle. With inflation as bad as it is, if I don't side hustle I end up saving $0 dollars at the end of the month, or incur a small loss. Driving for Uber Eats has been a huge windfall for me so far, because now I can deliver for 10-20 hours a week and actually get somewhere with my finances. I'm not sure the gig economy is a great way to make a living, but it's great as a side hustle. I can set my own hours and don't have to be lorded over by an idiot boss.
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I'm still in the first 5 min of the video but must say some contractors make a lot of money, like programmers. You can negotiate for the benefits to be relocated to a higher salary and with every skilled workforce, it's not easily expandable. Depende what are you working.
Buy Uber stock. Buy Amazon stock. Buy AirBnB stock. Buy Apple stock. Buy Tesla stock. Any questions?
Fly black is a ton more expensive than commercial airlines?
there should be regulations for that, for example, the company pays 50% of it's profits to all the contractors monthly and also for those who Works hours are like fulltime ones in a season(90days), they must get benefits of insurance and other same advantages of regular jobs. it's a good idea but done in a bad execution. it needs to be regulated.
Then they just close the app
The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
Heavy duty ! & merely the tip of the iceberg. & Just look at the lies about 8000+% returns below.
Job security?? No such thing
The masterworks ad sucks the authenticity out of this, just an observation.
Great video. Since your transition is so seamless, I think it's a good idea to have the ad read in the middle. That way you maximize view time.
Nice.. just lets go back to taxi days and you create something for those who will not be able to make ends meets.....
Better than working with other employees
That ad was smooth
Things will get better. Freelax.
"Independent contractor"......wrestling fans are familiar with this farce.
He has a gift. He says so many words, but he doesn't say anything.
the term "job security" cracks me up.
why?
@Af Gor if your not your own boss you have a very limited ability to keep your job secure.
@@BarnicleBill wasn't always that way, doesn't have to be. goodbye
What if you never had to leave home to get paid???
Corporations want modern day serfdom, in other news.
Do a video on All Tomorrows🙏
Not entirely agree with your take on the dystopian nature of gig economy, but I can understand the gist of it.
I say so since, as a freelancer myself, setting your own rates and being able to entirely negotiate what the gig entails is a big plus for me.
Maybe it has to do that I earn dllrs while living in Mexico, but it is still way better for me than a bureaucratic strong arm of a salary job.
Put the ads at the back. Content quality lapse
and fiverr takes the 30% of the money earned by the freelancer which is a lot ! :(
Promote web3
20% was it not?
Abraham lincoln? 😲
I bet all the JCS subscribers were excited seeing the thumbnail 😮😏
I do skip the dishes, and they rip off their drivers.
I accidentally read the thumbnail as femdom
I read the Urbanization problem
I'm broke and basically homeless😿💔🙀
Got an exam tomorrow that involves GIG economy, coincidence
posting this here cos you asked a dumb question to your community and I want to share my thoughts, which I think are important, here where more people will see it - when will you talk about investigative journalist whitney webb - when will you fulfil your duty to talk about her research, being that it is the most consequential corruption research in recorded human history?
you asked if money can buy happiness...
lol we've had the answer to this q many times over the past century, still seeing it here is kind of dumb and makes me lose respect for your channel, but oh well - happiness achieved by income tapers off after around 70k usd, depending on where you are and your costs of living - so nice question, very important question, I'm happy a channel of your size has helped the world to learn this important information
that was sarcasm - what are you doing? and why aren't you talking about whitney webb's research? do you feel no sense of responsibility, no sense of duty to help the world to understand money and corruption and the reasons why inflation is at a 50 years high, same as corporate profits? what are you doing, and why are you asking dumb questions that we already have many answers to? are you trying to find a solution, or just stroke the ego of your audience so they feel smart for getting a few hundred upvotes on some regurgitated info we've already seen hundreds of times across the internet? what are you doing?
Bro you are a product of the system as well 😂 about masterworks
You live in a society meme goes here
People complaining should just stop doing it
"if you don't like your job, starve"
what a bootlicker
Loud music. -
Dude your videos used to be so good, but at this point you plug so hard for your referral links it's disappointing. You might as well say 'smash that like button and subscribe for the algorithm.'
The company takes too much!
Different title sugestion: MEET MY SHITTY STOCK VIDEO UPLOADS THAT GET 60K VIEWS
Lol
Freedom to choose …. Freedom to loose😅
*lose
Its outsourcing without outsourcing. Outsource the job to individuals not employees. Increased profits and less HR hassle and no benefits cheaper workers without traditional outsourcing outside the country. Third world jobs in a 1st class society! Gig economy is just hastening this current economic disaster....
Wtf?! I was just watching Attack on Titan videos and then this popped up