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user-inactivated  ·  2416 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Trump rips Amazon, says it causes 'great damage to tax paying retailers'

No.

There will not be enough gig jobs to go around.

Gig work is often inconsistent and unstable. There's no guaranteed paycheck.

Gig workers often lack resources like affordable healthcare from employers, places to actually work, and collective bargaining power with their fellow peers.

There will always be a pool of low skill, low knowledge workers, and/or low drive workers. There is very little room in gig work for people like them.

The disappearance of low skill, low paying jobs will mean a huge chunk of purchasing power will disappear from the economy. With less money circulating throughout the economy, there will be even less jobs to go around, creating a negative feedback effect that will impact even gig workers negatively.

I understand where you're coming from, but I think it's important to understand that not everyone is cut out to be major go getters like you. The people who will lose these jobs are often already in very precarious socio-economics positions as it is. They're staring disaster in the face here.