Have you ever met an Uber driver who makes decent money? Honest jobs should be compensated with honest money, not starvation wages.
Have you ever met an Uber driver who makes decent money? Honest jobs should be compensated with honest money, not starvation wages.
Black drivers used to make pretty good money many years ago, but Uber + market externalities redesigned their systems to "fix" that (mostly through decreasing payouts and high car rental costs)
Most of the drivers providing that service split their time between Uber, Lyft and traditional corporate black car service.
Lots of posts on this topic in the UberDrivers subreddit.
You see that whenever there is value, above starvation wages, flowing to laborers, capitalists see that as a problem and reduce it. Does this seem sustainable?
It’s really interesting how you’ve couched the concept of price discovery.
Somehow only laborers get price discovered. Amazon hasn't got price discovered, not has Google, in decades. Weird. It's almost like Econ 101 isn't the whole story.
You mean, maybe selling shitty cheap chinese plastic to the lowest bidder has fucked with price discovery? I agree!
Yes, many, in fact. But more importantly, nobody is making drivers take these jobs.
The restated version of your comment is simply “I think drivers should get paid more,” which is fine, but not an argument. Everyone who has ever had a job thinks the same thing.
it's still evil. The billionaires running this scheme are evil.
Well, at least you’re not trying to pretend you have a well-founded argument.
Yes, many in fact.