"That’s why California’s AB5 fiasco, along with similar moves in states like New Jersey, has come at the worst conceivable time. AB5 is aimed at outlawing some independent contractor arrangements, common in trucking, entertainment, and app‐related “gig economy” work, while forcing others into a New Deal‐style employer‐will‐provide‐for‐you model that is supposed to be more amenable to stringent regulation and unionization."