It turns out hard things are hard. There's no free lunch or get rich easy schemes.
I'm an immigrant (I was completely broke when I moved to the US) and my parents were immigrants and their parents were immigrants.
In the United States of 2018, that's a matter of explicit political choice, rather than harsh base reality.
> or get rich easy schemes
Gig workers aren't asking to get rich, they're asking to literally not starve to death.
Food isn't fucking scarce.
>In the United States of 2018, that's a matter of explicit political choice, rather than harsh base reality.
The point of the saying "there's no free lunch" is that even if it's free to you, /someone/ is paying for it - lunches do not simply materialize without effort. This principle will hold up as long as the laws of thermodynamics do - even in the United States of 2018.
Inheriting money work well for several friends of mine.
I rather enjoyed my free college experience w/ free lunch plan not to mention a healthy mind and body.