Travel Hacking in the Gig Economy
For the Baffler, I recently wrote about the internet subculture surrounding airline miles, and my own interest in the various scams invented to collect travel points. From a distance, travel hacking sure seems glamorous, but up close, the hobby looks an awful lot like a useless part-time job.
Travel-hacking is accessible mostly to the right kind of people—the people who would likely be doing pretty well under capitalism already.