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How gig work exposes class differences

I drive for Lyft in a city where I can barely afford to live, and every ride reminds me that I'm serving people who make more in a day than I do in a week.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Service-based gig work creates intimate proximity to economic inequality that can be psychologically difficult to process.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with The gig economy — structural view?”

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