• Avid Amoeba
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    1 year ago

    You’re missing a crucial piece of the puzzle. Uber subsidized driver profits and fares for years in order to kill taxi companies. This undermines the idea that Uber discovered that people would work for small margins. I remember Uber operating mainly as a cab service at least as far back as 2015-16.

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      1 year ago

      The solution isn’t to force higher wages it’s to ban predatory “not a job” businesses from operation.