The angst, anger and confusion about the government’s planned changes to workplace rules governing gig economy companies is entirely predictable, and is the latest example of “digital disruption” occurring in the real world way before politicians (and mainstream business leaders) understand it enough to start regulating.

Google and Facebook had been around for ages, decimating the advertising ecosystem that enabled journalism to exist sustainably, before the Coalition government’s hotly contested media bargaining code was reluctantly agreed to.