Comment on 'It's definitely backfiring': Seattle ordinance intended to help app delivery workers is 'hurting' them

yuki2501@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• wahming@monyet.cc ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  How exactly would they absorb the costs? Most of them aren’t even turning a profit as it is

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  • BombOmOm@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    the cost is obviously going to the customers, where else would it go?

    People have this idea that you can bleed money from corps and that corps will magic the money from somewhere other than customers.

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    • TheUncannyObserver@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They don’t need magic the money out of anywhere, they already have it. They just have to want something other than to exploit whatever they can for profit, which is something they won’t consider.

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    • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I mean, they could, they just won’t. Lower the pay of the higher ups and you’d have more free money magicked up.

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  • yuki2501@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    By decreasing billionaire executive bonuses, of course. You realize apps like Uver give shitty pay to the drivers and keep most of the profits for the execs, don’t you?

    Repeat after me: They are MIDDLEMEN.

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• BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  How would that work, really? I can’t figure out how that could be regulated.

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  • yuki2501@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    1. Establish a wage floor.

    2. Establish a price cap.

    If the corporation can’t make a profit from this, then perhaps their business model was not viable in the first place.

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    • lolcatnip@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      A price cap seems to be based on the premise that not having a service at all is better then having it be too expensive. I find that idea very questionable.

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      • yuki2501@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        “Let’s treat our workers like slaves or else the entire economy will suffer” is a far worse take IMHO.

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    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Replace that price cap with a wage cap for the people at the top that is based on the wages of everyone else in the company and companies it contracts (to avoid the obvious loophole as well as giving an actual mechanism for “trickle down”).

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    • hydrospanner@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      “No fair! Our business model was very simple: price gouge the customer while exploiting our labor force!”

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    • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      How is the price cap determined?

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• Antergo@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Thats not how economics works, if the cost of a product goes up one way or another, the price goes up, one way or another

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  • tastysnacks@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And oddly, the price of a product can go up even if the cost of the product doesn’t change or goes down.

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    • Antergo@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I drew the arrow one way, just because touw ant to invert the arrow doesn’t mean it’s correct 🤷

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    • curiousaur@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Only if customers are willing to pay for it.

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