Minimum wage laws aren't important. Forcing companies to classify freelancers as employees or gig workers as employees is harmful and leads to less work availab

Minimum wage laws aren't important. Forcing companies to classify freelancers as employees or gig workers as employees is harmful and leads to less work available. If you want to meaningfully create leverage for laborers, you need to ensure their livelihood is not dependent on being employed. A negative income tax or some other form of UBI would serve better to accomplish this goal. On the flipside, providing all the basic needs of living to someone can potentially lead to a large drop in labor supply and create its own problems.