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Uber, DoorDash and Grubhub sue New York City over $18 minimum-wage law
(www.engadget.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
My guess is it's to offset the lack of other benefits-- health care being a huge one-- that you lose when you sign up to be a gig worker, not a full-time worker.
And we already have different minimum wages for at least one industry: servers at restaurants. The economy isn't going to collapse if we put gig workers in their own category, too.