I don't agree. Go read the news articles from 2009-2011. The "gig economy" was almost always quite descriptive, about the class of precarious workers forced by

I don't agree. Go read the news articles from 2009-2011. The "gig economy" was almost always quite descriptive, about the class of precarious workers forced by the recession to take up piece-meal worker. Only a few CEOs and sycophants waxed poetically about it, and even they stressed that it was mostly a way to make extra cash, not a job replacement.