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in the wake of the recession, countless Americans — particularly student loan-laden,

underemployed millennials — stitched together a livable wage from a patchwork quilt of income streams. From the rot of the Great Recession, the gig economy bloomed, and alongside it, a curious kind of slang creeped into our collective vernacular and lodged itself there firmly. “Side-hustle,” which first entered our language via African-American newspapers in the ’50s, became a slick, hashtaggable shorthand for “working my ass off, often in addition to a full-time job, just so I can make rent and maybe cover my car payment too.” Because while gig economy platforms tout flexibility and the alluring bait of “be your own boss,” the reality is that millions of workers are gigging because of economic necessity, not out of a burning desire to be their own bosses. In 2016, a study conducted by global consulting firm McKinsey & Company found that 50 million Americans and Europeans are “independent out of necessity, and more than 20 million of them rely on independent work as their primary source of income.”                                                                                        https://www.racked.com/2017/9/13/16255060/mlms-gig-economy-hustle