poets in the Soviet Union would take on small jobs like being a janitor
imagine opening an app and you see the local soup kitchen and pet sanctuary as listings
the soup kitchen posted an event for lunch and you hit "volunteer"
you help pack boxes and get a meal
your labor directly benefitted someone
your social credit increases
I mean under socialism all the shitty exploitative stuff that “the gig economy” connotes would ostensibly be irrelevant.
I imagine it’d just be a sector of the work force that uses technology to disseminate info about jobs that need to be done to people who like doing random odd job/temp kind of services.