15 July

This made me laugh. I've decided that 'gig culture' is too abstract a term for discussing this topic, the basic argument is that the countercultural movements of the 50s and 60s are now over, and those that led them are now the high status parts of society they protested against in their youth. That's how all revolutions go. The French Revolution generated Napoleon. The Chinese revolution gave us Mao and now Xi. The Russian Revolution gave us Stalin and Putin. The countercultural revolution gave us The Beatles and other 'legends' of rock. Each replaced an old status hierarchy with a new one, with them at the top.