Uber drivers don’t make less money than taxi drivers. On average, they make about the same.
Comment on Lyft and Uber say they will leave Minneapolis if the mayor signs a minimum wage bill for drivers
CustodialTeapot@lemmy.world 1 year agoYou mean exist to ensure the underpaid actually get the legal minimum wage and to stop exploitive rich people from exploiting poor people?
SCB@lemmy.world 1 year ago
darkmarx@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Then why would the company be against paying minimum wage?
SCB@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Because it’s a custom minimum wage that only their companies have to pay, set arbitrarily to make shit like taxis more competitive.
Yellow Cab fucking admitted in NYC that they only pushed the “Uber drivers make lower wages” rhetoric because they couldn’t compete, when in fact Uber drivers make what taxi drivers make.
Laticauda@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
How the hell does a minimum wage make taxis more competitive? That doesn’t make any sense. If uber drivers already make more than the minimum wage then a minimum wage would have no effect on that.
nbailey@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Uber & Lyft drivers assume all the financial risk and responsibility for their car payment, maintenance, insurance, cleaning, health and dental insurance, etc. You’ll find that once you factor in the externalities the tech companies push into their workers, they don’t necessarily make good money at all.
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 1 year ago
But it isn’t like a lot of taxi companies didn’t do the same thing to their workers.
In most parts of the US, restriction of the number of taxis came from issuing a limited number of medallions. The owners of these medallions effectively became rentseekers, renting out their medallions to drivers. The system was rife with abuse.
Part of the main issue now is that a lot of small rentseekers got taken over by two big ones.