There are several smartphone apps that have created work for people called ‘on demand workers’ which means people who work when they want to or when jobs are available that they want to do.
Uber and similar ridesharing companies work that way. You become a taxi when you feel like it or when the price of being a driver and the time of day suits your tastes.
There is a Taskrabbit app that I love. You see a list of workers willing to do specific jobs around the house, for a party or for your business. You post the job and people who want to take that job bid on it. If the job is interesting and suitable for them, they do it.
Of course, since we live in a society heavily populated by anti-commerce people, Lefties, environmentalists, and organized groups such as unions, these people find the idea of ‘on demand workers’ to be odious. These anti-commerce people universally assume that people only work for money and economic stability. The existence of ‘on demand workers’ imply that many people work at something they enjoy and do it in ways that can supplement their life.
Everywhere in the world, unions and local governments, are trying to argue that ‘on demand workers’ are really employees and should not have the freedom and independence that defines ‘on demand’..
The real problem here is that ‘on demand workers’ are more decent, competent and intelligent people than the anti-commerce population. The ones that want all workers to be considered employees and subject to employee laws and disciplines.
Hasn't this always been a problem in society? The happy go lucky, carefree person who is productive, has friends and does what they enjoy have always been envied. And criticized.
That's what we have. And, sadly, there are enough of the miserable, unhappy salaried workers and union members to do their part to politically quash this infusion of joy in the form of ‘on-demand workers’.