This is a big issue with gigwork, major underpayment for services leading to non-livable wages for workers. This is about the level, too, pennies for dollars.
I just learned about the law change, and I think it's driven in part by the low wages of Uber drivers and a recent lawsuit there.
Great, you built a unicorn on the broken backs of low wage earners, structured the unicorn to avoid your share of infrastructure taxes (social security, workmans comp, road use taxes), but could you have done it with a less destructive wage structure? Probably. The laws have to catch up.
My comment was more of a mockery of the type of gigs you find on upwork. I have and currently outsource dev work for livable wages usually running into thousands of dollars.
I just learned about the law change, and I think it's driven in part by the low wages of Uber drivers and a recent lawsuit there.
Great, you built a unicorn on the broken backs of low wage earners, structured the unicorn to avoid your share of infrastructure taxes (social security, workmans comp, road use taxes), but could you have done it with a less destructive wage structure? Probably. The laws have to catch up.