It seems to me that this article (and many others, and the underlying statistics they report on) are lumping together a lot of different things under the same l

It seems to me that this article (and many others, and the underlying statistics they report on) are lumping together a lot of different things under the same label, that aren't all that similar. I am a contract programmer, but my typical contract is 6-9 months in duration, and I get paid well. Is that part of the "gig economy"? It's not much like driving for Uber, I think, but it is neither part-time nor permanent employment, so it would often get lumped in there. Some truck-drivers work on a per-gig basis, but even though they are driving things for money it doesn't work all that much like Uber, in terms of pay or how you get treated or what your leverage in the market. I think the term "gig economy" is too broad to say anything meaningful about.