I don't think that's right. Classifying drivers as employees would make it very difficult for Uber to offer the level of autonomy they currently enjoy. They'd have to limit when and where drivers drive in order to ensure they got enough fares to be worth minimum wage.
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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
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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Within the "gig economy," top-down price-setting is basically standard? Seems to come down to whether or not end consumers can be expected to discriminate on more than price -- e.g. Rover pet-sitters set their own prices, but most folks don't wanna leave Fluffy with just anybody
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