We step back from the classics and examine a contemporary work covering a timely topic – the negative effects of ‘Uberization’ and the gig economy on the economic and social fabric. The article is Peter Fleming's "The human capital hoax: Work, debt, and insecurity in the era of uberization," published in 2017 in the journal Organization Studies. In it, Fleming takes a classic approach towards economics and traces its ‘dark’ influence on contemporary dynamics.