If you're a skilled professional, sure. If you're just a regular person, not really.

The very existence of the so-called "gig economy" tells us something is rotten.

There's always been a lower class working terrible jobs. Driving for Uber or working fast food for $8/hour is a terrible job, but it's not as bad as working in a steel mill or coal mine.

Except the people working in the mills and mines have full time employment with benefits and salaries averaging over $50k.

Now they do, yes. That wasn't the case 100 years ago when the steel industry was cutting edge.

Registered this account to point out that, when mining was a dangerous job that didn't pay well, we invented unions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Mine_Workers#Developmen...

The mean pay of a Steel Mill is $49,050. That's a lot better than an Uber driver. It used to be significantly higher.