I’ve seen several big chains, mostly gas stations and fast food, advertising “daily pay”. If you are worried about how you’re going to make it until your next paycheck, whether it’s tomorrow or next month, or you have no savings to cover any sort of emergency, then you live paycheck-to-paycheck.
Don’t be fooled. “Daily Pay” is just a shitty attempt at avoiding paying better wages by giving you your shitty wages faster. It’s designed to benefit the company, not you.
Edit: If you don’t get to hold on to your pay check long enough to earn interest on any of it, then getting paid daily is not benefiting you.
This definitely falls into a lot of the same territory as most other gig work. A lot of the problems of the gig economy are showcased with jobs that pay like this. It lures in people who would be making $40-120 more in a week doing the same thing elsewhere