If I am a driver on one of these services and I cannot decide completely on my own whether or not I want to accept an incoming request, then it’s not a “gig”. It’s a “job”. If these outfits want to force their drivers to take garbage no-profit jobs, then they should have to pay minimum wage, health care, socialist insecurity, mediscam, and other required burdens of actually hiring an employee. On the other hand, if I can just say “no” if a job won’t make me any $$$, without fear of being banned (i.e. “fired”) or being embargoed (same thing), then at that point, it’s a “gig” because I don’t have to take no-profit work. Customers can order enough to make it worthwhile to drivers, or they can do their own shopping.
No one, and I mean no one is entitled to the fruits of my labor but me.
*** If these outfits want to force their drivers to take garbage no-profit jobs... ***
How, exactly, does an outfit do that?
It’s a two-way transaction, and both parties must agree.
As they say in the art and music trade, “it’s good exposure even if you don’t get paid”