Raw Deal: How the “Uber Economy” and Runaway Capitalism Are Screwing American Workers — Who Pays?

Crisis in Perception · Sep 29, 2026 · 19m

What happens when technological flexibility makes work easier to buy, but harder to live on?

Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.

Using Raw Deal: How the “Uber Economy” and Runaway Capitalism Are Screwing American Workers by Steven Hill as our lens, this Deep Dive investigates a structural change in the relationship between workers, employers, technology, and economic risk.

Hill argues that the celebrated sharing economy is part of a broader “freelance society” built around contracting, temp work, platform brokerage, outsourcing, and other forms of…