I appreciate why so many people I know disliked this book. If it had come across more in the vein of light-hearted satire, rather than the SNL Weekend Update character of the woman you wish you hadn’t started a conversation with at a party yelling at the reader to “THINK ABOUT IT,” I do not think it would seem so condescending. But, alas. I’ll say that it does make two points well: (1) Everyone’s backstories, about which we may know nothing, color their current viewpoints and behavior in ways we (and they) may not understand, and (2) the American “gig economy” has come to expect an unreasonable level of emotional investment from workers, despite denying them basic job security, a living wage, or health insurance.