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The Gig Economy

How Apps Replaced Employment (The System)

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The Gig Economy

By: James Johnson
Narrated by: Jim Vann
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What if your job disappeared without anyone admitting it was ever a job at all? Welcome to the gig economy: a labor system built on loopholes, powered by apps, and sold as freedom. From Uber and DoorDash to Amazon Flex and Instacart, millions of people are working without being called workers with no benefits, no protections, and no boss to complain to when something goes wrong. In THE GIG ECONOMY, JJ exposes how tech companies rewrote the rules of work.

This isn’t a book about the future of labor, it’s about the present we’ve already allowed. From legal manipulation to algorithmic management, it shows how corporations replaced stable employment with precarious hustle and convinced the world it was innovation. This is a story about power. About misclassification. About what happens when the platform becomes your boss, your paycheck, and your prison without ever taking responsibility. If you’ve ever wondered why everyone’s working but nobody has a job, this book is the answer.

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