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Obviously. But are you going to do that so neatly it doesn't trigger unintended consequences? Which have the potential to make things worse.

It's easy to say "let's do X to make Y better", but it's not that simple with any real world complex system.

Look at bill AB5 for an example currently in progress and ostensibly about helping gig workers. Here's a sobering sample of second order effects:

https://twitter.com/ms_andiloveall/status/120670581104242278...

https://twitter.com/delightedbite/status/1216834042881949697



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