No: the market was created explicitly because it allowed for a kind of regulatory arbitrage. The legal categories *made* the market as it is.
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(I'm not really enjoying being the bad guy, here, I'm just trying to get a better sense of where the lines are being drawn and to what end.)
My understanding is that low-skill labor behaves a lot like a sort of commodity. I expect that both high-skill employees & high-skill contractors negotiate their fees, & both low-skill employees & low-skill contractors will wind up taking a market rate
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IMO the popular lens is that drivers get screwed over by aggressive top-down price-setting (which might be true!) -- but there's an alternative: if driver labor is basically a commodity, data-informed flexible price-setting may virtually always make the typical driver better off
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I’m willing to believe it makes them better off, but that speaks more to how to regulate the third category than whether it exists Are there other examples of low-skill contractors who can’t set rates? If not, that low-skill employees can’t argues for drivers being employees, no?
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