&gt; If that&#x27;s true, then these folks will find no work via the gig economy.<p>Exactly. So why &quot;rethink the entire safety net, affecting nearly every federal entitlement program, so that it is oriented around the gig economy&quot;?<p>The gig economy isn&#x27;t going to change the fundamental problem that there is not enough work, there won&#x27;t ever again be enough work, and we can&#x27;t centre our measurement of human worth around work. If we just keep pretending that&#x27;s not the case we&#x27;ll either end up with bullshit jobs that create no worth and are subsidized by the companies offering them (at best just a more convoluted form of benefits, paid by corporations directly); or with even more working poor that have a job and <i>still</i> depend on government benefits. Or both.