BFL
Freelancing is hard work, but there are many rewards.
FreeLancers will never restore the economic power that US had during the Bush administration. The economy and industrial base of the US will not recover. China, Japan, Korea, Russia and Europe will never let the American economy become the powerhouse it was.
We are entering the kind of economic conditions of mass poverty that will result in a socialist revolution. The gig economy is modern day pauperism. You can’t make a middle class living this way in most cases.
The only thing saving many older people in the gig economy is that they used to have real job that allowed them to buy homes and build up assets. These bad gigs allow them to scrape out survival. For younger people who never got that chance to have a real job, the gig economy condemns them to life long poverty. They can’t buy a home or save anything.
gig economy goes well with gig marriages.
This is one of the results of raising the minimum wage for low skill work and benefit mandates for salaried people - the companies shift to as much to contractors as possible.
Gig work has some benefits like flexibility IF you’re careful and in demand.
The instability, lack of benefits and uncertainty are difficult.
Free Market...freelance...
Go for it! Lessons learned...
Invaluable!