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

• 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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