No sorry, this was terribly surprising to me. I am unironically stating that I’m unpleasantly shocked. I would be ashamed to work for these teams as a software engineer.

It’s weird, I always intuitively understood that knowledge workers were screwed in this way by HR re: pay equity, stating market dynamics. But even with my unhealthy level of cynicism, I couldn’t stomach hearing the same thing about gig work. It feels like the sacredness of these jobs as society’s unkind-ish fallback for anyone that needs it has been violated. Nothing is safe :(