A few weeks ago, the New Yorker ran an interesting piece on “Should Gig Work Be Government-Run?” The idea is that the government should build and run a gig platform, just like Uber does. I am sure some of you might have a hard time visualizing it given that it seems so antithetical to both government and gig work, but a simple example of that is
NASA/SpaceX is an interesting example since NASA is a customer of SpaceX.
Bloomberg article about DoorDash workers seems relevant since they are fighting against low pay and lack of transparency: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-06/doordash-workers-are-trying-to-game-the-algorithm-to-increase-pay