I disagree with both of your statements. The entire point of my comment was that improvements on the margin are not always better than no improvements at all b

I disagree with both of your statements. The entire point of my comment was that improvements on the margin are not always better than no improvements at all because the margin improvements prevent bigger improvements from taking place. "Better than before" is not the same as "better than it would otherwise have been". And even then, I'm not convinced gig economy jobs really are better than before. "Lack of good jobs" has demonstrably not always been true unless by "always" you mean "in the last 20 years". And I've not seen any evidence whatsoever that the availability of good jobs is actually improving. The opposite, in fact. Traditional good jobs are increasingly being replaced by contract positions across the board not because employees actually want them, but rather because they're cheaper overall to employers.