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"If the gig economy is king, then the attention economy is God. In this new era, content is everything."
"The collaborative mirage of the sharing economy faded away and left in its place the back-breaking realities of the gig economy."
"California voters approved Proposition 22, which allows gig economy companies like Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash to continue treating workers like independent contractors."
"A group of Uber drivers are entitled to worker rights. The ruling on Friday from Britain's Supreme Court means some workers will be able to claim rights such as the minimum wage."
"Since starting his Fiverr account big man Tyrone has completed over 14,000 gigs for paying customers."
"This is about jobs that you will be doing as a one person gig, so like I like to call it Me Inc."
"80% of drivers want flexibility... on things that they think matter."
"You can make good money [with Uber or Lyft] whether you do it full-time or part-time."
"I made like maybe 20 bucks, Fiverr took 20 percent of everything, so those four dollars per gig was not a very exciting way to make money."
"Some view the gig economy as a hugely exciting development providing services to consumers at a far lower cost than ever before whilst offering workers a greater degree of flexibility in how and when they work."
"The fact is that technology, Uber, other entities like ourselves, have created a new way to work."
"Every day I wake up and I try to do it better than I did the day before."
"Why are they so desperate in recruiting drivers the answer is there uber and lyft are struggling to recruit drivers right and riders yes they flooding back to the apps but not the drivers."
"It's kind of a cool way to make money, similar to the Uber and Lyft model."
"It's not really that insane to actually have a side hustle. In 2020, it showed that 45% of Americans actually had a side hustle."
"This is probably the most funnest side hustle that you guys could do."
"Sustenance support - earn $20+ per hour with Instacart, an on-demand grocery pickup and delivery service."
"To call what someone is doing in these situations a side hustle is just sugar-coating a shitty situation."
"Help shape the future and get paid - join platforms like neevo.ai and Userlytics to assist companies with AI and website usability."
"If you're driving for any gig economy apps, you are a 1099 independent contractor."
"Who's really getting hurt? It's 1099 income."
"Food delivery you can make money in it, it's in the tips, okay? And bring some bring some game all right."
"This strike could be possibly one of the biggest strikes that the gig economy sector has seen."
"Even if the portion of people who are striking isn't massive in proportion to the workforce, the proportion of people who won't be able to work will be quite high."
"One of the reasons why you might need a side hustle or an alternate way of creating income as an artist is because in the animation industry or a lot of art industries it's very project-based."
"Over 20,000 drivers in this amazing community, the best in the side hustle world!"
"One addition that I absolutely love is the ability to pick up odd jobs."
"This is not the case this time around. There's a huge emphasis this time around to get funding to these smaller gig type workers so if you have any kind of contract service you should absolutely apply."
"California Assembly Bill 5 shut down the gig economy, forcing people out of work."
"The gig economy of questing: 'The pay is bad, the work is demeaning.'"
"It can teach us to actually participate in communities of care and mutual aid."
"Supporters of this asset sharing model argued that platforms like Airbnb, Uber, and TaskRabbit empower individuals to monetize their underutilized assets, time, and skills."
"Gig workers are officially going to be classified as independent contractors - this is a huge victory for Uber, Lyft, Doordash, Instacart, and those heavily invested in these."
"Definitely worth it because you get paid $10 for every single test that you do."
"MindSwarm is an app that lets you apply for studies, record quick 40 to 60 second video responses, and then get paid."
"It's important to acknowledge this kind of work as real work because I think it's only going to get more common and harder for these kinds of workers to draw the line between working as an influencer and simply existing."
"We've got a structural issue with gig workers and if we can make gig work more like full-time work, make it easier for people to manage their financial lives on the front end and not just on the spend side, that's a revolution."
"The gig economy is a mixed bag; it often means low pay, no benefits, and no worker protections."
"All you guys that drive Uber bro this is gonna be a big year for y'all yeah like real talk like 65 take advantage bro yo."
"Uber does give you the ability to completely work on your own schedule and do your own thing."
"Uber and Lyft are massive companies, they should take care of their drivers, understand that people need to get around."
"If you want to make more money to get through the baby steps faster, the gig economy is absolutely blowing up."
"In a world filled with the internet-based gig economy, most of us have probably spent the night in an Airbnb or two."
"I just I love delivering for goer honestly it's so much more enjoyable than delivering food."
"It's nice to know that you can make money doing gig work."
"The more you earn in the gig economy, the more you burn. You'll burn yourself out, burn your car out, and it's just going to be a burnout."
"Don't go out and just accept what you're being paid. Obviously, you're gonna have to accept what you're getting paid because this is the gig economy."
"My message to her would be that Bonafide independent contractors will always have a place in our economy."
"You are an independent person, and the next job is a gig."
"A gig is a gig and I wouldn't have to pack, I could just throw my [ __ ] in tubs, it'd be real easy."
"It’s the interminable, routinely paralyzing despair that comes with being an Uber driver."
"I think it's going to be amazing for Gig workers and guys doing deliveries."
"You can make a significant amount of money with doing Shipt."
"The future might be the gig world where everything we do, we don't really have a job, we actually just interact with all these different communities and get incentivized for it because that's where our passion and our interest takes us."
"We've got over 15,000 drivers using Cargo. Dedication. The earnings are substantial. Drivers really look at that, you know, one to three hundred dollars per month as a way to pay down their fixed and variable costs."
"If governments force these companies to pay some real benefits to their gig workers, maybe the system could be rebalanced."
"The gig economy is great. No, many gig workers struggle. Yes, it's a time bomb. Yes, I know it's gonna screw us up in the future."
"But we always like to do this thing, we like to use this platform, and I don't want to say which platform it is because I think it's such a bad deal for the gig workers, but it's such a great deal for the company."
"Digital Nomads are the poster child of this concept of gig economy, a powerful poster to sell the idea of freedom at work to everyone else."
"You actually want to build a relationship with your customers because with Shipped you can actually have them request you."
"If you're a gig worker or you have multiple streams of income, you are absolutely going to love this thing."
"I'm sorry right and why why why is the why is the gig worker being notified about the order if they're not even gonna make the order right exactly."
"We're quickly entering an era where freelancers, animators, voice actors, where all these people who specialize in a gig economy type of skill set are now collaborating more and more often."
"My goal is just to shed some light on this world of gig work especially gig work and a car show the ups and downs and hopefully provide a little bit of entertainment along the way so I really do appreciate the support you've shown so far."
"Running a gig as a thumbnail artist can turn very profitable very quickly."
"Definitely check out Upwork, download it on your phone, it is an awesome side hustle app to get started with."
"If you have no peak pay, especially as a new Dasher, what are you really walking into?"
"Amazon Flex is an $18 to $25 an hour job that you can do with Amazon by basically delivering packages to people's doorsteps."
"It's kind of like if you are someone who's ever tried door Dash or Uber or something like that, it's kind of along the same lines except you don't have to interact with people at all really."
"Why would you kind of even do this when there's arguably better ways to make kind of the same amount of money per day on different apps in the gig economy?"
"I ended up getting 7.43 from that Uber Eats over here."
"This is the life of a gig worker, working a shift at a regular job all day and then coming back to my little home."
"I'm very grateful to have upshift and instawork as options."
"They're just much more reliable than delivery gig work."
"instacart can be a great side hustle to make a whole lot of money in a short period of time."
"This gig work, I think, is where it's at... there's so many different type of gig jobs now."
"The kinds of work that we see emerging today, be they in the gig economy or on various platforms like platform capitalism, we see fewer and fewer opportunities for stability."
"You can make really good money with this side hustle and get paid the same day."
"If you have the flexibility to work more, you can make a thousand dollars or more in the week."
"Becoming an Instacart shopper and how to make the most money."
"When you're working for Instacart, you have two options to make money."
"You can either be an in-store shopper who fulfills the orders in the store, or you can be a full-service shopper where you do both."
"There are several factors that play a part in how much you can earn."
"Doing driving or delivery apps such as UberEats, DoorDash, Grubhub... you can deliver anything with your car."
"We have a gig economy system at the moment where you have no rights, no opportunity."
"You will make a minimum of $25 per run and can make up to $50 per hour plus tips."
"Make an average of $50 an hour, and top performers can earn $60 to $90 an hour."
"These are just numbers I know, but I'd still be a door Dasher if it wasn't for you, so thank you."
"In my opinion, having control of my time is crucial, so I'm going to be the master of my own schedule and deliver food for UberEats or DoorDash."
"The best times to drive... there's not as much traffic, there's a lot of orders being placed."
"Look out for those boosted areas... that boost can really make a big difference and just maximize your earnings."
"You really get to control your schedule and maybe you're coming up on the first of the month, you need a little bit of extra money for rent, whatever it might be, and you can just get in the car and earn some money very easily."
"Micro jobs are small, easy tasks that can be completed in a short amount of time."
"This is the reality of the so-called gig economy, it's about destroying what has been a full-time profession, turning it into part-time poverty pay work."
"I started delivering for UberEats part-time. To my surprise, it was actually good money."
"The gig economy thrived on the promise of flexibility and freedom."
"The gig economy idea is catching on so well because it's flexible, not just for the employer, but also for the employee."
"If the gig economy is going to market itself as a modern paradise where you can work whenever you want from wherever you want, it better live up to it."
"The gig economy is currently exploding and I think it's going to continue to explode."
"The gig economy is going to rival the regular job market."
"This channel is dedicated to your success in this gig economy, the side hustle."
"Overall, I think Instacart is a great gig."
"I hope that this was helpful for those of you that are trying to get started with DoorDash."
"Uber... has revolutionized urban transportation and added jet fuel to the gig economy."
"It's important for all of us to fight for workers in the gig economy and to see through some of this euphemistic language that they put out there."
"I'm not giving up though, I'm still going to continue pursuing gig work, I'm still going to try to make money doing gig stuff, I'm going to build a cine lifter."
"If you work all day doing Uber or Lyft and you usually make like a thousand dollars a week or two thousand a week or whatever, yeah, get a Tesla."
"If you want to earn money, drive your car, have a good time, make tips, make your own schedule, sign up for Lyft."
"The future of work... people are less full-time employed, they're more like freelancers."
"The gig economy is not just for Uber, Lyft drivers, DoorDash drivers; there's close to 660 professions that are considered freelancers."
"I drove 102 miles today, made $32 an hour in five and a half hours, I made $176 dollars."
"Gig jobs can't be beat when it comes to freedom and picking your own schedule."
"The biggest driver of jobs from the technology startup world in the last decade has been the gig economy."
"I wish you every success with Amazon Flex."
"Over the past decade, some men have begun working full-time in the gig economy."
"If you pull a 10-hour shift in UberEats and DoorDash, you know, four or five times a week, you can pull in a thousand dollars."
"Did you know that there are way more options out there other than Uber or Lyft or Instacart, and some of them pay a lot better?"
"If you find the right company, you can actually make really good money."
"Lunchtime delivery drivers make more like $25 to $35 an hour, and that doesn't even count the tips."
"Grab a coffee, grab a drink, this is going to be your comprehensive guide to driving for DoorDash."
"It's important to supplement incomes so that you don't have to work three crazy jobs; you can just get in your car and that can be your second job."
"If you do some work for somebody like a gig and they pay you through Venmo, that's taxable income."
"Taskrabbit is great because you can do all kinds of random little tasks and make really good money."
"In March, doing the gig apps full-time and YouTube full-time, I earned $6,626."
"I do believe there is something to the fact that top Dashers are getting more orders."
"That's what I like about Instacart, that's what I like about all this stuff."
"We're at a historic income inequality and while this is not the solution to close that gap, it's part of it to help them earn some significant extra money."
"I've logged about 12,000 deliveries between the three giant American delivery apps."
"Maximize your income up to about twelve thousand dollars in a month."
"This profession is not going to last, and why you need to diversify your income."
"I was making pretty good money and I didn't have school the next day, so I was planning on staying out until at least midnight."
"The current state of the gig economy benefits individuals who cannot commit to traditional contracts at jobs such as students and parents."
"The gig economy is everywhere now, and it's largely a product of corporations' abilities to not give you the rights of an employee."
"Driving Uber is a new way to earn extra cash whenever you want, and it's not another job."
"My heart has been, will always be, for helping the person who wants to get started being their own boss and having a resale business."
"It's becoming just a huge part of the gig economy where people can run their own business."