Freelancing Is Up, But Mobility Is Down

I'm trying to square two seemingly contradictory trends. First, as we've known for several years, geographic mobility in the United States is today half of what it once was. This applies to interstate, intrastate, and intra-county moves. At the same time, apparently, we are living in a new era of freelancing and independent work, such that 58 percent of Millenials surveyed called themselves an entrepreneur becasue of freelancing work. That Forbes article also references an Intuit study purporting to find that 40 percent of US workers will be freelancers in 2020, only seven years from now. That seems astoundingly high, and would seem contrary to the steady downward trends in mobility, which predate the recession.