But because the countries laws benefit the excessively rich, and the poor peoples' hard work to make the rich richer, means that these people have 0 protections whatsoever.
They are the second lowest economic class, the "can't even get W2 work". The lowest is 'homeless', who are already considered thrown away, societally speaking.
The existence of gig services is not responsible for poverty. Poverty is the natural state of all living things, and through much effort humanity has succeeded in partially eliminating poverty.
There is indeed a problem. Before we're able to achieve post-scarcity, we will reach a point where most people will not be able to provide sufficient value in a free market economy to sustain themselves comfortably. This problem was not caused by gig services or big corpo being evil or whatever people like to blame.
The deactivation is a different story, however.
And sure, homelessness, hunger, and low/no medical is a "choice", its not a choice we make lightly.
So worse is better than homeless. And people are stratified out of even the working class.
But they don't come with the freedom that gig jobs do which is their primary appeal.
And if the laws were actually enforced, most of it is blatantly illegal.
Illegal online taxi.
Illegal online food delivery.
Illegal residential hotel chain.
Many people who do this do so because they don't have other choices. And much of it is also illegal for the people "working", cause commercial driving requires commercial license.
It is a scam on everyone, except for the 'app companies' that basically added 'internet' to a regulated career and turned it into unregulated enshittified garbage.
>It is a scam on everyone, except for the 'app companies' that basically added 'internet' to a regulated career and turned it into unregulated enshittified garbage.
No, this predated "app companies". Taxi drivers were self-employed, only got paid if they got fares, and on top had to pay for the privilege of driving (medallion system). That's just as bad as working for Uber, if not worse (since you don't have to pay to work for Uber).