Be very careful talking about competition or switching costs with gig work. It is very easy to get and quit a gig job. None that I know of restrict you via no

Be very careful talking about competition or switching costs with gig work. It is very easy to get and quit a gig job. None that I know of restrict you via noncompetes. > it is not a zero-sum game > does not become employed and then be magically better for life > would have been unemployed forever had this business not come along That's what makes it non zero sum. The marginal worker is better off, because this new marginal employer exists. Any down-the-line employer which isn't this one will be worse by definition. > This wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing if the employment market was a fixed pie Doesn't make sense. Either error in logic or I can't parse your final point.