Not to mention most jobs are gig work now. I haven't had a full time job with benefits for years now. I am able to survive with one full time contract job, but my mental and physical health are at an all time low because I sit and work all day five days a week, including holidays if I don't want to lose pay, even when I am sick. There's no reason all of these gig jobs shouldn't be full-time jobs with benefits (as well as the numerous low paying part time jobs that people worse off than me have to suffer working in multiple of them). Every time a US company needs an employee, they just hire a contractor so they can get away with not paying them benefits. I'm able to get health insurance from the contract company I'm hired under, but I have to spend around $500 a month, and that's for me alone. Funny enough, the health insurance cost at my workplace isn't any better, so even if I were hired, I wouldn't pay less in insurance. I worked in jobs that paid me much less where the insurance was around a few tens of dollars a week or so.