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A worker’s will to do something does not necessarily mean that thing is good for the worker or society. Lower classes are currently forced to work for survival, there’s a lot of room for improvement.

Poor management of investments on Uber/Lyft’s end is a burden the lower classes should not be forced to take on.

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> A worker’s will to do something does not necessarily mean that thing is good for the worker

That strikes me as a pretty condescending point of view. Shouldn't adults be allowed to make their own decisions on what is best for their own lives?

right? i mean, i'm a software developer contractor. should i be able to keep doing it so, or am i too dumb to realize that "my situation is actually bad"?

i get it, gig jobs are not perfect -- but for a lot of people, it's the only job they have. do california lawmakers think that no job is better than a shitty job?

This is part of a super generic tradeoff between liberty and public good that differs from case to case depending on your culture and values. For example, should we ban smoking? What about meth? And so on.

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