The Rat Race Trap (Inefficiently Busy Trap)

Gig economy platforms use algorithms to maximize compression of workers' hourly wages, locking their working hours on the survival line, leaving people no time for self-improvement. People engage in repetitive, low-value work, falling into a seemingly busy but actually inefficient state, like mice desperately running to reach the cheese above only to find themselves spinning in circles. With no time or energy to think about innovation or enhance their abilities, they find it difficult to break through their current situation and achieve upward social mobility, trapped in a vicious cycle of ineffective time consumption — becoming poorer as they busier and busier.