How The PRO Act Will Make Life Worse For Freelancers

The PRO Act, which is now included in the massive infrastructure bill, and the Worker Flexibility and Small business Protection Act, will make things very difficult for freelance creatives if it becomes law with the ABC test intact. If freelancing and independent contracting is no longer considered legitimate, and we all have to be employees, what do we lose? Whether or not an employer is a union shop or not, what do we lose?  Don't take this discussion as a rant against unions or the trades, but as a genuine concern for the fallout we get to deal with if the government forces every working pro into W2-based employee status.