Comment on Lyft and Uber say they will leave Minneapolis if the mayor signs a minimum wage bill for drivers

• darkmarx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Then why would the company be against paying minimum wage?

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  • 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.

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    • 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.

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• 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.

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• GravityAce@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • SCB@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s weird that you think someone making more than almost 40% of the country is “poor”

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    • GravityAce@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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      • SCB@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        A) it’s fun how I can tell you’re from a wealthy family

        B) all averages are calculated the same way. That’s what “average” means.

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    • ExceedinglyPanWoofer@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That is poor lmao

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      • SCB@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Tell me you have rich parents without telling me you have rich parents.

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