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If you have company flying into Atlanta for the holidays, they may have a hard time getting a ride to your place.

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[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 79 points 10 months ago

The rideshare drivers told FOX 5 Atlanta they're fed up with unfair wages from the companies they work for.

[-] aard@kyu.de 28 points 10 months ago

...which everybody with half a brain knew already over a decade ago when that stuff started.

I do understand that you guys have shittier taxi service over there than we generally do have in Europe, and it was tempting to go for something new - but there's a service like this has fixed costs, including car maintenance, and giving a higher cut to the app company than you was doing during taxi times where you was hardly getting by doesn't really work, once the venture capital dries up, and they try to make a profit.

Since everybody was running after uber like sheep you my end up with the actually sustainable transport destroyed - fortunately regulation saved us from the worst over here, though uber did have some negative impact.

[-] menemen@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

On the positive side Uber finally got some digitalization into the process here in Europe (what also helps preventing being screwed over by the driver). But yeah, screwing over the drivers is bad.

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