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https://archive.is/XJFf4 | :

Is the Gig Economy Working? - The New Yorker

'The model goes by many names—the sharing economy; the gig economy; the on-demand, peer, or platform economy—but the companies share certain premises. '

'Like traditional companies, gigging companies maintain regiments of highly paid lawyers and lobbyists. '

'The flexibility was great, if you had something to be flexible for.“The gig economy is such a lonely economy,” he told me. '

'In a new book, “The Sharing Economy,” he proposes a halfway measure like Airbnb’s: self-regulation in collaboration with government. '

'Given such testimony, it was easy to see how the sharing economy became a liberal beacon—and easy to see the attendant paradoxes. '

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