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Have you been to the US? "Workers" here do not "buy larger houses", we rent tiny apartments when we can and live in our cars/streets/friends couches/wherever we can otherwise. "Premium phones" are irrelevant, the difference between a new iPhone and an Android is maybe 1 week of rent.

If you're in the US and your problems are vacation time, "buy[ing] larger houses", etc., you're not in a position to even get tips. You would be in a privileged class of educated workers with a perfectly fine quality of living.

We're talking about the average US worker. This person has never taken a vacation in their life because they've never been in a position to. They take what they can get, which in the case of the gig economy is often well below minimum wage. If they have a roof over their head it's likely only by the grace of a wealthier family member. This person works their ass off performing the unskilled labor that makes our world go round and they get treated like a criminal for it.