What happens when we all become our own bosses

The "sharing economy" has evoked two possible futures for what work will look like in the years to come: one dystopian, the other idealistic.

In the first, workers scurry among shopping trips, carpools, minor home repairs and menial errands so that the wealthy don’t have to. "Work" will mean piecing together other people’s tasks, with no benefits, picking up a few bucks Mechanical Turk-ing in between.

In the second, the sharing economy will free workers of the 9-to-5 drudge, making more of us "micro-entrepreneurs" who set our own hours and incomes. Finally empowered to profit off our own assets and time, we won’t need traditional employers.

By Emily Badger

Full Story: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/07/01/what-happens-when-we-all-become-our-own-bosses/