[delecti]

It's no more paternalistic than any minimum wage law. Society has decided that jobs can't pay below a certain threshold, the law just makes that apply to gig workers now too.

[Thorrez]

You're partially right. But AB5 does more than just apply a minimum wage, it also requires the drivers to be employees rather than contractors.

[delecti]

Fair, but that's also not any more paternalistic than all the existing laws which define which kind of work can be classified as a contractor and which must be classified as an employee.