• PicoBlaanket@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    That’s true.

    Lyft and Uber are taking advantage of both:

    • the drivers (who are sub-contracted, legally-unassisted, and underpaid)
    • and the passengers (surge pricing).

    Even worse - those companies SEEK to replace drivers with self-driving vehicles. They will terminate their entire sub-contracted workforce (the drivers… the people who do the actual work), without obligation.

    This has been their goal from the start.

    • pingveno@lemmy.ml
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      2 years ago

      I guess I’m more concerned about the short term well being of the drivers than anything else. Surge pricing at least has a purpose, to attract drivers to an area. And with self-driving cars, I like the idea of using them as a solution to the last mile problem in transit.