Great article. I used to work at a gig economy leader in Europe but I couldn't take it anymore when understood how broken it is for the service providers, then I created an alternative: http://www.eaziapp.com/en, it's a platform to empower people to become lifestyle concierges, they offer the same services they are currently offering in gig platforms but with less commissions and more a focus on running their own business.

We support cleaning at the moment but are working on an MVP for grocery shopping, the whole idea is to allow the lifestyle concierge buy groceries for the customer they are going to clean (they need to go there anyways) and this way the concierge makes more money with almost the same effort