Umm no. They couldn't. Uber, today, is (probably) breaking the law by hiring contractors but treating them as employees. It's actually a very easy line to cro

Umm no. They couldn't. Uber, today, is (probably) breaking the law by hiring contractors but treating them as employees. It's actually a very easy line to cross and any contractor or business working with contractors should know those laws well, as crossing that line without reporting it is, among other things, a violation of tax law (and I guarantee you if Ubers contractors are classified as employees, they'll be hearing from the IRS). Roboticizing the workforce does not involve breaking labour and tax laws. It's simply replacing labour with automation, something that's been going on since the cotton gin was invented.