This feels like the key passage right here: "The rise of the gig economy post 2008 is not just the sign of the times, it is the sign of the increasing automation of management processes that are relatively simple. Without it, the scale and scope of the gig economy would produce on its own a secondary boom of what used to be temp services, and with them the according managerial level professionals administering the division of labor. In the end, the manager, like the bureaucrat they descended from, is in many places an avatar of process. Managers may yet survive in their role as accommodators, mediators, and exception handlers—but we’ll see." This is what connects this content most directly with the likely readers: the role of managers in a progressively automating future.
