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Re:The Gig Economy’s False Promise by cheez on Monday April 10, 2017 @02:26PM (#14081205)
Next time ask how long they've been doing Uber. For the most part, I've only heard longer than 1 year a handful of times.
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Re:The Gig Economy’s False Promise by smsm42 on Monday April 10, 2017 @02:39PM (#14081308)
Which completely destroys the top comment's point, if true - if one only does gig thing as... well, a temporary gig - there's no reason to worry about retirement with gig salary - nobody retires relying entirely on gig salary.
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Re:The Gig Economy’s False Promise by Can_Not on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @09:21AM (#14097364)
That's assuming that they left for a better job and that the replacement jobs were not also sequentially all gigs.
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