This is exactly why we have labor laws, especially minimum wage laws. This company wouldn't exist if we had properly written laws that protected all workers, but they hide behind the excuse that people working for them are contractors blah blah... yeah we get it and it's time to close such idiotic loopholes. Contractor or not, at these rates, no one is independent. That's frankly ludicrous unless someone invented a way to clone people and make them into slaves. And the people working these sub minimum wage jobs to make a living deserve better. They deserve the minimum wage like everyone else, although I'm sure plenty of people here will argue that they deserve to starve and die of treatable diseases so they can make billionaires ever so slightly richer.