• merdaverse@lemmy.zip
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    1 day ago

    Cool, I’m sure when your job becomes a gig you will enjoy the extra “flexibility”. I have this very radical idea that people doing something that other people need, for a large portion of their available working hours, should have economic security.

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      1 day ago

      I’m a concert rigger. My job is already a gig. I like it. I just got back from spending 3 months in mexico. Texted my boss “hey, I’m back in town”, and he started putting me on shifts again.

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        Flexibility is only useful if you already make a decent wage and don’t have a megacorporation constantly trying to steal your wages and avoid local regulation so it can shit on your rights. Otherwise it’s just an euphemism for being a treated like a disposable cog.

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          Idk dude, me and my coworkers seem to like it alright. It sounds like you’re projecting some personal issues here

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            13 hours ago

            Idk dude, me and my coworkers seem to like it alright. It sounds like you’re projecting some personal issues here

            As opposed to you, who is projecting your enjoyment of a gig job that doesn’t require you to pay money to be able to do your job with someone who does have to pay literally every time they try to work. I wonder if that, and the obvious differences in pay and work environment, would make a difference in how the two workers think about their jobs…