>Just because you're self-employed, selling your services to others on a contract basis, doesn't make that gig work.

doesn't it? as far as i can tell, the only distinction between "gig economy" and contract workers is that contract workers actually get paid at rates that make it sustainable and that being between contracts isn't a catastrophe, whereas jobs classed as "gig economy" pay low enough to keep the workers desperate for the next gig.