so the capture of the "gig commons" and driving down prices via intercompetition is removing some of the remaining safety nets from cities, and they're doing it in the least useful way possible: making it impossible to claim clients/turf by prioritizing time and how many things can be completed in that time, encouraging people to take a worse route, never build a reputation enough to build business, and competing for jobs means you're often not getting paid for jobs you would have had if you just advertised it on telephone polls, while some people just have no one who can do the thing for them (because routing and immediacy).
they're turning the lower income forms of "entrepreneurship" into like, the equivalent of rental instead of ownership
it's like if the yellow pages distributors refused to list you if you didn't rent your storefronts from them
when you think about platforms and the spaces they fill as another form of Real Estate in the way that real estate is capture of something and then optimizing for rent if you let people use it at all, a lot of things sort of snap into focus
the scams look the same when you use that lens