Re freelancing, craigslist “gigs” sections are cluttered almost beyond use now with nearly uncountable ads for Uber / Lyft and their ilk.
And that’s pretty much what Silicon Valley job creators are creating these days, just various versions of on-call “jobs”. There’s now on-call cleaners, on-call dog-sitting, on-call delivery services, and on-call grocery delivery, and you can bet your bottom dollar that you can’t make a living at any of them.
Most of the ones I see under gigs are for women for adult movies.
There used to be some decent technical and creative gigs.