“Exactly. But if someone else would set your price with your clients, and your only options would be to agree to the price or quit the job, I would probably say you’re an employee”

-This is actually precisely how about a third of my contracts worked. And reviews by my firm’s lawyers+theirs made sure it was legit.

There’s a bunch of case law on this and tons of companies with this as their business mode (eg, FedEx). It will be interesting to see how this settles out though. I know FedEx has been through a lot of lawsuits and Microsoft famously lost and had a bunch of contractors reclassified as employees.