California is cracking down on the gig economy
This last year, I drove for GrubHub for about 6 months in order to pay rent while trying to build a business as well as do web development contract work(I&#x27;m now employed full time).  The whole time, I was active in various gig economy subreddits.<p>There are some people out there who <i>only</i> want to drive for companies like GrubHub, but most of the drivers are people who already have jobs and are using the gig as <i>supplementary income</i>.<p>The topic has come up before in these communities about whether they want to be employees or contractors.  At the end of the day, most people want to stay contractors because they already have other jobs and want to make some extra cash during their off hours and weekends, and being an employee would <i>actually</i> mean being their GrubHub&#x27;s bitch because then they could be told that they can&#x27;t refuse to pick up orders that are too far away.<p>While I do see the argument that businesses shouldn&#x27;t be using contractors as a replacement for employees, unless we solve the problem of stagnating wages, doing so will take away a lot of needed extra income from people who don&#x27;t feel wronged by these companies.