What gig companies provide are not gigs, so much as a market for service goods, which necessarily requires some standardization of units of work and of informat

What gig companies provide are not gigs, so much as a market for service goods, which necessarily requires some standardization of units of work and of information so as to be practicable. In any market we expect substitutable and comparable goods. The standardization is what drives the implied lack of freedom to negotiate rates, terms and conditions, etc. for each and every job. It gets tedious and ridiculous, not to mention overall inefficient for all parties. The nature of whether somebody is self-employed rather than the employee of another should be very simple. It should have nothing to do with the specific items of negotiability or having or lacking information, as long as the unit of working relationship is one job with a deliverable, the taking or refusal of which is freely chosen, and there is no expectation that either side will work together again. I simply don't see how such a relationship can be considered employment in an intellectually honest way. Now on top of that you can regulate how such marketplaces should work, like how states make Amazon and eBay collect and remit sales taxes, and have fair advertising laws, but that's a separate concern from the employment question.