Yes, it's a commodity market of forks at that point - a bushel of wheat, a hog carcass, etc. is more or less the same at some level, regardless of where it's g

Yes, it's a commodity market of forks at that point - a bushel of wheat, a hog carcass, etc. is more or less the same at some level, regardless of where it's grown...save for King Arthur flour, but that's another story. There are subsidy/government controls in place for this - if you price control it or otherwise force production without a market benefit, you drive folks out of the industry. This is a bad thing with food staples because then you get starvation, so you need the market to exist so people can enjoy profits but you need a floor/baked in demand to ensure minimum level of production to meet your populations needs. Now, for this market, we need to ask "Do we care that the supply of gig-sector services is volatile?" and the answer is muddled - people want their reliable Just-in-Time(JIT) services but not enough to advocate for price floors to ensure labor supply exists and stays stable(low turnover). In our minds, that's the job of the contracting companies to do and we don't really care about the labor impacts associated with it. I guess the question is "Are we ok burning this now and hoping we have it in the future?"