The Gig Economy is Full

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Check out Cape and use code HOWMONEYWORKS33 to get 33% off your first six months https://cape.1stcollab.com/howmoneyworks_5 ------ Sign up for our FREE newsletter! - https://www.compoundeddaily.com/ Books we recommend - https://www.howmoneyworkslibrary.com/ Listen on Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/5gi1JobDJC3QqaF4aKfenR?si=f3IsgWIlSKObF8BT1Fitig ----- My Other Channel: @HowHistoryWorks @HowMoneyWorksUncut Edited By: Svibe Multimedia Studio Music Courtesy of: Epidemic Sound Select Footage Courtesy of: Getty Images 📩 Business Inquiries ➡️ [email protected] Sign up for our newsletter https://compoundeddaily.com 👈 All materials in these videos are for educational purposes only and fall within the guidelines of fair use. No copyright infringement intended. This video does not provide investment or financial advice of any kind. #money #gigeconomy #finance ----- The gig economy has never exactly been flawless, but some recent trends are throwing off a delicate balancing act between workers and customers that might (accidently) be exposing some much deeper underlying problems. On the surface our unemployment rate looks really good right now. Sure It has trended up slightly in the wake of a long string of mass layoffs, but by zooming out we can see it is still hovering around all time lows. Sounds great right?... well… It’s no secret anymore that jobs data has had some… reliability problems… in recent years, and one of the biggest blind spots is people moving into the gig economy instead of becoming formally unemployed. For a lot of people who have lost their jobs it’s quicker (and often easier) to register as an uber driver than it is to register as unemployed and you only really need to look at the numbers to see this is happening. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics over the last 5 years, the total number of people classified as unemployed has fallen by about 3 million, which “sounds” good… but over that same time frame, the number of active uber drivers has increased… by roughly 3 million people according to company financials… Now to play devil's advocate, even if these “jobs” aren’t the best, having readily available and highly flexible work with low barriers to entry could actually be a good thing when the alternative is people going straight onto unemployment… and we will get to that… But the problem right now for the workers entering the gig economy; is that there is a rapidly growing roster of drivers looking to chauffeur around a $50 burrito, and a shrinking pool of customers that are still willing to pay for it.