27 April

Gig culture when focused specifically on business is called a gig economy. The transformation of the adult world of work into fleeting ‘gigs’, usually mediated through online platforms. Like a nation of backpackers. They use the term gig economy because of its similarity with musical gigs, short-term work with no real purpose or organisational structure. This has been the wider cultural shift since the 1960s, towards life as a permanent gap year from adult reality, from responsibility and longer-term aims and planning. Those things are now called red tape or bureaucracy, by those resenting not being allowed to do whatever they like.