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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SCB@lemmy.world 10 months agoUber drivers don’t make less money than taxi drivers. On average, they make about the same.
nbailey@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
GravityAce@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
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GravityAce@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
[deleted]SCB@lemmy.world 10 months 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.
ExceedinglyPanWoofer@yiffit.net 10 months ago
That is poor lmao
SCB@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Tell me you have rich parents without telling me you have rich parents.
darkmarx@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Then why would the company be against paying minimum wage?
SCB@lemmy.world 10 months 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 10 months 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.