I don’t know about your experience, but when I drove for Uber Eats, I had to quit after a few months because they arbitrarily cut my pay by about 80%. I was wearing my car down and burning my own gas to make less than $6/hr. I was struggling too, so much that I just couldn’t afford to do that job anymore.
Uber promised investors the moon and now they can barely afford to pay their stakeholders back, if even that. Their unsustainable business practices, in a sane world, would have done them in years ago.
Was the $6/hr better than $0 because that’s the decision a lot of people will have to make. The pay represents the skill set. Basically have a pulse and be able to Walk from your car to a door and back. Some people need it and some can do other things. Forcing Uber to hire people as employees will leave a lot of people in the $0/hr basket that really needed to be in the $6/hr basket instead. What is a completely different conversation is whether people should have to be in this position at all but that’s not for uber to solve and they have no obligation to society to solve it.
There’s no logic in that. Are you saying this gig is literally the only work you could feasibly be doing? If Uber hadn’t existed, you’d just be poor and destitute without any alternatives?
There are many people in society that yes this is all they could do. Yes they used to just be poor and leeching off friends and family for support and shelter. Not everyone is educated and well adjusted an Alarming number of people aren’t.
I’ve heard the phrase, yes. I don’t base my philosophy on whether clever-sounding phrases exist.
There’s no evidence to suggest that lack of a minimum wage results in everyone earning essentially zero wages, which is all I can imagine that phrase to mean.
There is, however, evidence that minimum wages lead to unemployment. There’s also evidence to suggest unemployment is a horrible state to exist in.
I don’t know about your experience, but when I drove for Uber Eats, I had to quit after a few months because they arbitrarily cut my pay by about 80%. I was wearing my car down and burning my own gas to make less than $6/hr. I was struggling too, so much that I just couldn’t afford to do that job anymore.
Uber promised investors the moon and now they can barely afford to pay their stakeholders back, if even that. Their unsustainable business practices, in a sane world, would have done them in years ago.
Was the $6/hr better than $0 because that’s the decision a lot of people will have to make. The pay represents the skill set. Basically have a pulse and be able to Walk from your car to a door and back. Some people need it and some can do other things. Forcing Uber to hire people as employees will leave a lot of people in the $0/hr basket that really needed to be in the $6/hr basket instead. What is a completely different conversation is whether people should have to be in this position at all but that’s not for uber to solve and they have no obligation to society to solve it.
We have minimum wage for a reason. We can’t allow companies to have a race to the bottom.
We have minimum wage because we have decided it’s better to force some people to zero in order that others may have a little more.
Well, also because people refuse to process the logic on that, because acknowledging what I just said would cause them to reconsider their position.
There’s no logic in that. Are you saying this gig is literally the only work you could feasibly be doing? If Uber hadn’t existed, you’d just be poor and destitute without any alternatives?
I fail to see that being realistic, at all.
There are many people in society that yes this is all they could do. Yes they used to just be poor and leeching off friends and family for support and shelter. Not everyone is educated and well adjusted an Alarming number of people aren’t.
85% of people with aspergers are unemployed.
And how many of them are employed by Uber? My guess is it’s a very low amount.
I can’t imagine the series of incidents in your life that led you to draw such a wrong conclusion and yet call it logic.
You’ve really never heard the phrase “race to the bottom”?
I’ve heard the phrase, yes. I don’t base my philosophy on whether clever-sounding phrases exist.
There’s no evidence to suggest that lack of a minimum wage results in everyone earning essentially zero wages, which is all I can imagine that phrase to mean.
There is, however, evidence that minimum wages lead to unemployment. There’s also evidence to suggest unemployment is a horrible state to exist in.