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

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• yuki2501@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Did the ordinance specify that the app companies would have to absorb the costs and NOT pass them to the users? No? Ah, well, that explains it then.

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  • 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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    • 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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  • 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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• wahming@monyet.cc ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is the crux of most of this kinda of piecemeal legislation. If the change is localized, people just move to the place that suits them best.

    The same thing happens with sugar tax on drinks at the local level, people just buy their drinks elsewhere.

    It needs to be state wide to make much of a difference.

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    • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The same thing happens with sugar tax on drinks at the local level, people just buy their drinks elsewhere.

      Right. So, I’m going to travel 15 km out of my way just to save 50 cents?

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• Steve@communick.news ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I expect this is temporary as the market adjusts to the new prices. Eventually drivers will leave since its not worth it to them, increasing the orders per driver. It’ll work out.

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  • Veedem@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s my thinking, too. I wonder how many new drivers started once the ordinance was passed in an attempt to catch the higher wage being spoken about.

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• BombOmOm@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yep, you increase costs and people buy less. Basic supply and demand.

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  • Habahnow@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    In addition, increase pay, so the supply goes high while demand drops. It will be interesting how this works out in a year from now.

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