If Uber/Lyft drivers aren't independent contractors, who is? If you're arguing we've overbuilt a rigid healthcare/retirement/etc. infrastructure that's insufficient for this class of worker, I'm with you, but "these people don't belong in the screwed-over class" feels a bit dodgy
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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?
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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Yeah, I’m not clear on what the lines would be either. It does seem clear that the current categories are outdated; if nothing else new ones would improve the situation by ending the stream of lawsuits. While the current model stands people are going to keep poking at the gaps.
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Maybe poking at the gaps is how we develop the new model, but until that work starts we’ll just see more and more edge cases, every one of which corresponds to thousands of people with significant job uncertainty and corresponding stress.
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