The Full-Time Mirage: Welcome to the Gig Plantation They tell you “jobs are back.” But what they don’t tell you is that it’s not the kind of work you can build a life on. It’s part-time, low-wage, no-benefits table scraps served up by a system that’s been gutting the real economy for decades. In August, the U.S. added a pathetic 22,000 jobs. But here’s the kicker: full-time employment dropped by 357,000 while part-time employment rose by nearly 600,000. This isn’t a recovery—it’s a redistribution of desperation. Americans are working multiple dead-end gigs just to afford rent and groceries while the corporate class consolidates wealth through inflation-fueled asset bubbles. This isn’t market failure. It’s success—success of the rigged, centrally planned economy…
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