Uber drivers. Yard work. Baby sitting. Selling things on EBay.
These and much more can be classified as "gig" work. Jobs you would normally think of as work for people without skills and an education.
That was the old days.

If a war resulting in tens of millions of casualties can be described as such, over the years World War II came to be known as the "Good War" for much of the Western world. It is often said that the victors of a war, any war, write its history. This is almost always true with perhaps one major exception.

The system I speak about is the composite of political, economic and other facets of our world. We have seen it from a political perspective and this is myopic at best.

The latest threat to its stability was the disturbance caused by Bernie Sanders. The threat was not that he might become elected but that his words would really change people. Yes they did change people but not many in a way that really matters.

I suppose the inspiration for this piece is from a piece by Jake Johnson with lots of fabulous links in Common Dreams:

But the polls have turned up for Stein and Johnson at the same time.
The two polls in question are:
McClatchy-Marist and NBC/WSJ.