Workers should be entitled to a minimum wage, business expense reimbursements, employee benefits, rest breaks, and all the other benefits afforded to employees under California state law. AB5 is a good law and should be implemented Federally.
If I start a business to write iPhone apps, who exactly should be responsible for paying me a minimum wage to do that, covering my business expenses, and affording me health insurance until my app business is self-sustaining (which might never happen)?