Comment by oisino

Having friends who have had startups that relied on contractors the death blow is being forced to treat contractors as employees. The mass market model doesn't work when you have to charge 40% more just to cover the additional costs in benefits, overtime, taxes, hr etc. link to good article of friend who experienced this in his startup https://medium.com/@kaleazy/theres-no-magic-in-venture-backe... So the real question from all this bad press will it sway states and cities to start forcing uber to make this change? If so it will definitely hamper who they can service and their valuation.