If you think about this dispassionately, the biggest likely effect of implementing this is as follows: Uber rides become more expensive. That money largely wi

If you think about this dispassionately, the biggest likely effect of implementing this is as follows: Uber rides become more expensive. That money largely will go to the government in the form of various payroll taxes. No one will remember this in a couple of years. Because of the forgetting, we will in the future be skeptical that labor compliance was so important to the price. The idea that gig workers could have ever existed without all this compliance will seem alien and barbaric. If anyone suggests removing all this compliance, they will be called a free market purist. It’s odd, because I think most people actually think what is going on with gig workers right now isn’t horrible oppression, but rather adults agreeing to working conditions and having a ton of freedom. I don’t think we will see it that way in the future. And I don’t think we will ever be able to deregulate this after the fact.