From my jaundiced viewpoint - the whole gig economy nonsense is fundamentally the unalloyed exploitation that reformers in civilized states tried to eliminate during the late C19th and early C20th - so the whole uber-gig monstrosity can bugger off back to the looney tunes lands where C19th laissez-faire captalism still rules.
The gig economy seems to be very popular with those who see no pressing need to pay any form of tax on their earnings.