Why and how are so many people quitting their jobs, even as inflation lingers, we enter another pandemic year, and the unemployment rate is declining? In this segment of Backstage Pass, recorded on Jan. 5, Fool contributor Rachel Warren dives into one of the major reasons that may explain why so many people are disappearing from the labor market right now. Well, one of the interesting things that stuck out to me from the report was that the Labor Department data showed that there were "500,000 more unincorporated self-employed workers than there were at the start of the pandemic".