The only reason you are in that position in the first place is because you have few rights in the society you live in.

If not for that your situation would be much better. The United States is singularly bad at protecting basic rights for people who are less than lucky in life, the gig economy makes this worse, not better because it now seems like there is a solution: let those at the bottom of the societal ladder fight over scraps in a race to the bottom.

Of course from your position scraps are better than nothing but there are much better options available too. But they all start with a society where 'winner takes all' is not the default.

Unfortunately the export of the gig economy to parts of the world where the social safety net is working just fine has the effect of slowly eroding that safety net because there is less of a perceived need for one.