content: This is why people tend to get up in arms about various labor laws. Whether or not people want to admit it, some do a fine job of actually taking the chance to earn any money away from people on the lower end of the economic strata. In this case, uber could lose a significant amount of employees, despite the fact that it was stated:  Obviously some workers prefer to be independent contractors — but mostly they take these jobs because they cannot find better ones  ... and they chose this one. They had the choice of having no job, or a better job. It wasn't in the cards. This is just removing the choice of an uber job, you aren't offering any better alternative.