The Gig economy jobs are a race to the bottom of the pay scale now. You can get the least expensive services by using workers that have no insurance, vacations, sick days or any type of benefits but is that the work environment that we want to encourage? I get it. It's nice to be independent but it's even better to have a job that lets you have at the very least a satisfactory life.

Technology can give us jobs that free us from the traditional chains that we all know but we also need to figure out how to make sure those workers don't get exploited.

Technology is just part of the answer. We also need to have social and political changes. So we can have the jobs that we want without destroying the worker protections that our previous generations have fought so hard to gain.

Making sure that there are laws that protect workers is the start. The answer to the right pay for the gig economy workers will come. But we can't do it by removing all benefits from the workers and not have any other way for them to get them.

I know one thing. What Uber and Lyft provide is needed so companies will figure out how to provide it even with new laws.