&gt; If they had to reclass as employees, they would just raise prices to end consumer 10-20% to compensate (or fund it via other&#x27;s money like they&#x27;re doing now to price out rest of market).<p>I think saying that they would &quot;just&quot; raise prices 10-20% is trivializing the problem. One of the reasons that Uber took off was because it was so much cheaper than regular taxis. Would Uber look the same now if it had had 20% higher prices from the beginning? Almost surely not.