[brian_cloutier]

Thanks for elaborating, I think we're mostly in agreement.

In the current world where there is no good safety net I'm saddened by laws like AB5 which do not seem to maximize utility for the most people, they only maximize utility for the people who are valuable enough to their employers, leaving a large class of people unemployable. But it sounds like we actually agree about this.

We disagree slightly in that I think even in the world where everyone is taken care of people should be allowed to accept bad jobs. It's actually useful for us to allow this! If more people start accepting bad jobs again it's a sign that the safety net is failing and should be improved.

But if that world was not an option I would mostly happily live in the world you're describing, where bad jobs were banned but there was a robust safety net.