It infuriates me that rideshare services have become the poster children for the "contractors or employees" debate because they're incredibly well-suited to being contractors. They genuinely get to work for competing services and pick their own hours. Uber and Lyft are the hammer used to smash people fighting for workers in industries where they're only contractors on paper. Where they aren't allowed to pick their hours or work for another employer in the same field. "Make everybody we can a contract worker" is a cancer eating the blue collar economy alive. Hair stylists, nail techs, estheticians, massage therapists, painters, plumber's assistants, etc are all suffering immensely. There are buildings with a set 8-4 schedule with hundreds of people in them of which only three managers count as employees.