I think Uber/Lyft would (mostly) look the same with a 3rd category. There's demand for flexible work + a market maker that can match supply/demand quickly. Those are the fundamentals.
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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?
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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Taskrabbit and its competitors let you set your own rate as well iirc, for similar reasons. But even if the whole gig economy worked this way, couldn’t that still argue for a third category, and that the gig economy as a whole was a response to that category’s absence?
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Taskrabbit doesn't do standardized services, though -- price-setting is impractical if not impossible -- and much of what's on the platform is skilled/semi-skilled. I'm not against a new class, I'd just like some idea how the lines might be drawn & how it'd improve the situation
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