{"id":3010,"date":"2018-04-29T11:27:06","date_gmt":"2018-04-29T17:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/?p=3010"},"modified":"2018-04-29T11:27:33","modified_gmt":"2018-04-29T17:27:33","slug":"workers-in-the-gig-economy-have-tremendous-autonomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/archives\/3010","title":{"rendered":"Workers in the Gig Economy Have Tremendous Autonomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3011\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/steering-wheel-801994_640-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Driving a car\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/edit.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/steering-wheel-801994_640-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/edit.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/steering-wheel-801994_640.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>This essay by Bill Gurley, <a href=\"http:\/\/abovethecrowd.com\/2018\/04\/19\/the-thing-i-love-most-about-uber\/\">&#8220;The Thing I Love Most About Uber&#8221;<\/a>, is well worth reading. In it he discusses the insane level of flexibility working for Uber (or, though he doesn&#8217;t state it, Lyft) gives the drivers. He also goes into some great details about the typical driver and earnings.<\/p>\n<p>I have been a contractor for much of my career and when I was, I placed a large value on freedom. Freedom to choose clients, freedom to take time off, freedom to work when I needed to. As a software developer, if you are willing to accept the associated risks you&#8217;ve been able to choose autonomy for decades. (Some contractors are even more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fulltimenomad.com\/how-to-become-a-software-developer\/\">autonomous<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>But that level of autonomy still requires large blocks of contiguous time, some level of marketing capability, and specialized knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>In the USA today, the ability to drive and car ownership is ubiquitous (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.citylab.com\/transportation\/2015\/04\/global-car-motorcycle-and-bike-ownership-in-1-infographic\/390777\/\">88%<\/a>). And Uber\/Lyft take care of the marketing. And the demand is such that you don&#8217;t necessarily need large blocks of time. So the autonomy provided is at a much higher level than any previous type of contractor.<\/p>\n<p>This is amazing. I can&#8217;t think of another market where the demand and supply pools are so large and the time and skill commitment are so small.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This essay by Bill Gurley, &#8220;The Thing I Love Most About Uber&#8221;, is well worth reading. In it he discusses the insane level of flexibility working for Uber (or, though [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology-and-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3010"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3014,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3010\/revisions\/3014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}