• Jimmycakes@lemmy.world
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    22 days 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.

      • intensely_human@lemm.ee
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        22 days ago

        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.

        • Cryophilia@lemmy.world
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          22 days ago

          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”?

          • intensely_human@lemm.ee
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            21 days ago

            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.