I believe you misinterpreted me. I was not making a judgement about how things should or should not be, just stating how things currently work out. The minimum wage laws don't affect gig workers diectly AFAIK. They should, but they dont. Because of this, absent other economic factors, people who are currently gig workers choosing hourly jobs instead of continuing as a gig worker. This will reduce the supply of gig workers to the companies employinh them. In order to maintain the number of workers they need in this situation, the companies will have to raise compensation to be in line with minimum wage, but this process will take weeks or months to happen.