By your account, the problem is a for-profit healthcare system. Gig work might have helped you purchase a highly inflated healthcare plan, but it doesn't address the underlying issue: that people shouldn't be forced into that situation in the first place.
You mentioned you are disabled, did you not qualify for disability insurance/SSI?
I do qualify for disability, but I can't afford the legal fees to convince a judge. My illness is very controversial and would require paying a very expensive doctor to support my case. It's cheaper for me to just pay for healthcare out of pocket. Fortunately my condition is reversible.
Edit: emeramide is currently in phase 2 clinical trials for FDA approval.
Progressives, especially in 2020, don't look kindly on people who lack faith in medical institutions. A lot of people with chronic illness have found themselves in this category after being failed by these institutions.
Anyway, I'm pretty sure that there are more ideologies out there than just 'progressive' and 'anti-progressive'.
What you did to me is evil.
Europeans are just as fucked as Americans when they have this illness.
Umm I can’t see, walk straight, or think normally 4-5 days a weeks. Disability, your faking it. Doctor, it can’t possibly be that bad, your lying.
Uber and Airbnb didn't have to take a loss to employ you. You got paid because you provided value to people willing to pay for it, just like the rest of us.
That's not to say we don't need social safety nets, or that it'd work for any disability (obviously). But there is something to be said when it becomes outlawed "for your own good."
Oh really? Has Uber turned a profit yet?
Just because the business as a whole is not turning a profit does not mean the business loses money with each and every action it takes.
Social safety nets only work for people who are believed to be oppressed. So what happens is the oppressed groups just end up being the people no one believes are actually suffering.
I have no idea what this is about but there was very strong activist push to get the ADA in 1990 and similarly the ACA in 2011 but I guess that doesn't count
> I was in a situation where I needed money for healthcare that will never be covered by insurance, especially government sponsored universal insurance
No clue what this means or how you could possibly even know that.
>You healthy people aren't nearly as caring as you'd like to believe.
Bold of you to assume that I'm healthy and don't have a vested interest in universal healthcare getting passed
"No clue what this means or how you could possibly even know that."
I know this because I have the illness and have been to 40 doctors who all denied me healthcare based on this fact.
"Bold of you to assume that I'm healthy and don't have a vested interest in universal healthcare getting passed"
I edited my post to remove the "you" part so as to not make that assumption. Apologies.
No one will help me, especially progressive leaning people. You don't get political or social brownie points for helping disabled people the way you would for other minority groups who are struggling. We are constantly ignored and forgotten.
I was in a situation where I needed money for healthcare that will never be covered by insurance, especially government sponsored universal insurance (EDIT: it will be covered eventually, maybe in 10 years). Gig jobs played a key role in my ability to purchase that healthcare and survive.
Regular employers will never hire me. Unions will never let me join them, because I can't meet their requirements and make life harder for their able bodied employees. Gig work is the only option.
Healthy people aren't nearly as caring as they'd like to believe, especially progressives.