https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/y3mz77/the-holidays-suck-for-gig-workers

After clocking in for five hours on the grocery delivery platform Instacart on Thanksgiving, Tamila Dorton switched off the app and sat down with her two kids to a turkey dinner donated by a local church.

“I just didn’t make enough to buy dinner,” Dorton, a 38-year-old single mother in Shawnee, a Kansas City suburb, told Motherboard. Bills are so tight this year following several changes to Instacart’s pay algorithm that Dorton also reached out to a charity for Christmas gifts for her kids.