Say what you will, but this just hurts consumers.
Cutting costs in shipping and having your drivers entirely managed by algorithms might result in an anxious person throwing your packages on your doorstep or scraping your driveway with their truck. You can return packages at least.
Cutting costs on a taxi service get a bit frightening when you think about it. The person you're trusting your life to could be anyone that convinced an algorithm to hire them for the least amount of money possible.
They do into SF.
Most get back on their feet and leave after a couple of years. Those with more serious issues, continue to struggle, stay and aggregate. It's definitely not a good situation, but it's far bigger than SF, let alone the classification of Uber drivers as gig workers.
I know, but, a friggin 1 billion fine? They're most likely just pulling out of Switzerland altogether.
It's still a thing they have to pay to the government.
Jeez.
* a fuckton of gold/money dripping in Jewish blood (like Nazi gold sourced from the ashes of incinerated Jews, or Jewish-owned accounts that could not be accessed by relatives of those exterminated by Nazis because of "our very strict banking privacy laws".) After the war, the allies let them keep two thirds of the money/gold they had banked for the Nazis.
* serving as a tax shelter for the world's wealthy
* providing banking services to dictators, drug lords, and weapons traffickers (among other things they tend to have poor life expectancy or otherwise become unable to access their funds...which is convenient, again, with strict banking privacy laws.)
* keeping out all those poor, smelly immigrants and refugees that other countries accept because unlike the Swiss, they actually believe in humanitarian duties and obligations to humanity. Never contributing to peacekeeping operations. Never providing foreign aide to poorer/less developed countries.
Say what you will, but the opposite only benefits Uber shareholders.
Hence rules like this.