The gig economy includes about 35% of the workforce — on its way to 50%, some say, in just the next two years. The tailwinds that will fuel this growth are the gig economy’s “long tail” and marketplaces that aggregate specialized workers like nurses, lab techs, computer scientists, teachers and even lawyers, CFOs and architects. For digital payments players to cash in on the $1.2T digital payments opportunity that they’re missing today, they might want to pay heed to the entrepreneur who invented the gig worker concept some 72 years ago. …see more