Political extremism, two faces of the same problem, and the people standing on the edge The Gig Man’s Life | Opinion There is an old political theory called horseshoe theory. The basic concept is that the further you travel toward the political left or the political right, the closer those extremes eventually become. Instead of…
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There is one more part of this W-2 conversation that probably deserves its own article. And before going any further, I want to make something clear. This is not an argument that W-2 employment is bad. It is also not an argument that independent-contractor status is automatically better. That has never really been the point…
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Why Student Loans Are Investment Loans — Part One There is something I’ve noticed whenever we start talking about accountability in higher education. It doesn’t take very long before somebody finds the emotional argument. You’re attacking women. You’re attacking teachers. You’re attacking artists. You’re attacking cosmetologists. You’re attacking people who want to go to college.…
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Apparently one RideShare Pro video has officially turned into a trilogy. I didn’t set out to write three articles about one video. But that’s what happens when somebody takes a subject as complicated as converting independent rideshare drivers into W-2 employees and boils it down to something resembling: You’ll get some benefits. You’ll get paid…
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I didn’t exactly plan on getting three articles out of one video. But every time I go back through the argument about making rideshare drivers W-2 employees, another question pops up that nobody seems to be answering. Part One was basically: What exactly is becoming W-2 supposed to fix? Now we’re onto Part Two: Okay.…
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I watched RideShare Pro’s video making the argument that rideshare drivers should not be afraid of becoming W-2 employees, and the farther I got into it, the more one question kept coming back to me: What exactly do you think the W-2 is going to fix? Because there are real problems in rideshare. There are…
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If you live around Western Massachusetts, you don’t need me to explain what the Eastern States Exposition is. It’s The Big E. It’s the big New England fair in West Springfield where all six New England states get together, everybody eats things they probably shouldn’t, and you can somehow spend an impressive amount of money…
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Congratulations. You’re a content creator. You make videos. You write articles. You post things. You build a website. You put up a contact form because maybe somebody wants to hire you for DJ work, sound engineering, production work, consulting, or whatever other gig you happen to be doing this week. And then you discover the…
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One of the other parts of the gig when you decide to become a content creator is remembering that making the content is only part of the job. Every once in a while, you actually have to stop and look at the numbers. Not just views. Not just subscribers. Not just whether one video went…
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