You have it backwards. Gig workers aren't employees. Quite the opposite, they are self employed and pay for a service that connects them with clients, handles

You have it backwards. Gig workers aren't employees. Quite the opposite, they are self employed and pay for a service that connects them with clients, handles payment processing, disputes, contracts, etc. The existence of gig services is not responsible for poverty. Poverty is the natural state of all living things, and through much effort humanity has succeeded in partially eliminating poverty. There is indeed a problem. Before we're able to achieve post-scarcity, we will reach a point where most people will not be able to provide sufficient value in a free market economy to sustain themselves comfortably. This problem was not caused by gig services or big corpo being evil or whatever people like to blame.