Per the New York State Department of Labor, “Independent contractors are free from supervision, direction, and control in their activities.” This means that employers cannot require freelancers to come into an office, attend meetings, or otherwise tell them how to spend their time:

If the cost of the actual meal stayed absolutely static, necessitating an increase in tip % to maintain cost of living, sure.

So basically what iMessage has been for years now?  Ok cool, got it.