Reading your post made me remember a motto I posted on another social media platform a few years back. "Take a risks and conquer your fears." In life, we are faced with a lot of challenges it is up to us how we act upon it. Sometimes there is no certainty but we are provided with the pros and cons of the situation. We just have to choose whatever is right for us without hurting ourselves holistically and not at the expense of somebody else. Freedom is a right and power, we can choose how we run our life,we just have to find that medium where we are not stressed out doing a mundane thing over and over again and can move/work freely without society's prejudism. Me and my husband were introduced to this platform this year and so far we liked it. Nobody can tell what the future brings we just have to take some risks,spend some time and energy,have faith on it.
The system is largely not set up for this to happen. The way of competition and gain requires optimisation and a crushing of supply chains which inevitably lead to the oppression of the most vulnerable. It is not the one percents fault, it is the consumer demand for it.