How the Gig Economy Could Save Capitalism

Foroohar is an assistant managing editor at TIME and the magazine’s economics columnist. She's the author of Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business.

I’ve spent much of the last three years looking at how our current system of market capitalism isn’t working. But recently I’ve begun thinking more about what is working — or at least, what might have the potential to work better.