If the legal standard finds they are employees the added cost is just more incentive to automate the jobs away completely. Soon enough all these terrible horrible jobs you speak of (which every driver I’ve spoken to is happy to have, usually having quit some other full-time employment to do gig work instead), soon enough all these jobs simply won’t exist at all.
You are incentivized to hurt people and steal their money if you reasonably think you can get away with it. That fact being true does not mean that actually hurting people for your benefit isn't evil. There are lots of actions that you are theoretically incentived to take, but it _is_ evil to do so.
Every time I read arguments like this (the threat of increased cost leading to more automation), I just further believe that some sort of guaranteed basic income is what we need to be moving toward. Ideally in the utopian future we automate "all" jobs away to the point where we have so few jobs compared to the number of people, and obviously people will still need to be able to tend to their basic needs and then some. Owning the automation just cannot mean you get all the profits from it.
