Lawmakers are blazing over worker pay and benefits for #GigEconomy workers, with #Uber and #Lyft at the top of their hit list. All one has to do is look at the regulated #taxi industry to see the great hypocrisy of their claims — an industry, that for decades, hasn’t given a whit about the wages or well-being of its independent taxi drivers. It’s why those attacks have little to do with worker pay, and everything to do with something else instead. Here’s what — and why. …see more