Freedom in the Gig Economy

What does it mean to be free?
Is it to be able to choose what you want to do?
Is it being able to decide what type of life you have?

I was watching one of Slavoj Zizek's talks and he brought up a very keen observation. The topic in question is what is known as the "Gig economy". Basically, an economy based on the effects of offshoring and other Neoliberal great ideas and actions. Due to the erosion of the manufacturing sector in the States, people have been taking a series of short-term, unstable jobs. It is not uncommon for someone to consistently move from job to job every year or so, moving from gig to gig, as they try to make ends meet. The idea here is to not be a typical full-time employee with benefits and all, but to be a but a temporary freelance contract worker drifting around waiting for the next task. It is LITERALLY the complete opposite to the strong labor sector during the post-WWII Keynesian years. The idea is not sold as that though, and that's where the issue arrises.

This is Zizek's point. The idea of the gig economy is sold as a system in which you can move around, try new jobs, reinvent yourself every year or two, not be tied down to one place, no long term obligation. Freedom is the main theme here. However, is it freedom? Is instability really freedom?

I don't think so and neither does Zizek. He warns about ideologies that are sold to us under the name of freedom but in reality are just another way of binding us into the current economic system. The problem with this is that we are tricked, deceived into believing we are living in modernity but in reality we are no different from any other society in which its people are explicitly forced to live a certain way in order to comply to the ways of the economical system.