But I think in the case of Uber it’s beyond debate that drivers, as an overall class, are not better off “having the freedom” to work under Uber’s (or other firm’s) poor conditions.
I’d say the same thing of Amazon warehouse workers too.
The conditions of these employment agreements should become legally not possible, so that workers don’t become effectively indentured servants to a working agreement that makes them worse off than some societally agreed standard, and feeling trapped and having the bad working conditions create a feedback mechanism bu which they can’t realistically choose to stop that working agreement and seek betterment.
These examples, in American standards, are egregious, nowhere close to any boundary where the government is asking unreasonable concessions of Uber.
If meeting these conditions doesn’t allow Uber to remain financially solvent, then Uber is not and never was a business, only a scam.
You may argue the model can regress to essentially taxis. But realize that taxis work due to artificial supply side restrictions generally using a medallion system and strict limits on numbers. This is fundamentally different from Uber where there is basically no restriction on supply.