If most people performed their labor via a system akin to Uber or Doordash, then I’d be more inclined to agree.
IIRC he started this line of inquiry ~5 years ago when “Gigification of the Economy” was a point of discourse going around and I think in that context it would have been reasonable to go there, but otherwise I agree there’s hairs to be split about the specific social relations and relations to production that make it hard to view it as regression as you noted.
IIRC he started this line of inquiry ~5 years ago when “Gigification of the Economy” was a point of discourse going around and I think in that context it would have been reasonable to go there, but otherwise I agree there’s hairs to be split about the specific social relations and relations to production that make it hard to view it as regression as you noted.