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[-] betelgeuse@hexbear.net 39 points 8 months ago

Uber comes in, ignores local laws, runs cabs out of business by running a huge debt financing scheme while also doing illegal shit. They build a monopoly. Then they cut wages, increase prices once there's no competition. They do more illegal exploitation shit. Keep running on debt, making no money for years. Just bullying and grinding their way into this position. The end result is that they can now upcharge you for a service you were already getting. Now instead of restaurants and grocers delivering food, you get to pay extra for someone else to do it. Then those workers lose their job and go work for Uber, who will pay them less.

Capitalist efficiency is putting as many businesses in between you and what you want/need as possible. Then cutting your wages so that you can't afford the services you're providing. All so some frat bro in Austin or San Fran can become a god.

[-] zifnab25@hexbear.net 13 points 8 months ago

Now instead of restaurants and grocers delivering food, you get to pay extra for someone else to do it. Then those workers lose their job and go work for Uber, who will pay them less.

Is Uber exempt from the wage laws? I assumed PizzaHut would simply be outsourcing the cost to Uber, creating a surcharge for their food that doesn't appear on their advertised price. They get to tell their investors that they cut costs without actually changing their business model.

Capitalist efficiency is putting as many businesses in between you and what you want/need as possible.

More businesses means more growth! More growth means more investment! More investment means more profits! No, I won't explain how or why. This is Econ 101, dummy. Do your own homework.

[-] EmmaGoldman@hexbear.net 29 points 8 months ago

Is Uber exempt from the wage laws?

yea

[-] regul@hexbear.net 16 points 8 months ago

There was a big vote about it in California in 2020: whether or not app-based jobs counted as employees and had to be given minimum wage protections. Uber spent record amounts of money on it and the hogs in Southern California need their treats so it went down in flames.

[-] EmmaGoldman@hexbear.net 14 points 8 months ago

Truly ghoulish

[-] buckykat@hexbear.net 11 points 8 months ago

Also those ads Uber spent all that money on did their best to completely flip the issue around and portrayed the minimum wage laws as some kind of attack on the gig workers. After the proposition passed there were a bunch of I-regret-my-vote stories like after Brexit.

[-] Lurker123@hexbear.net 8 points 8 months ago

Maybe - if the minimum wage law in question only applies to restaurant employees, or employees generally, as Uber eats drivers are independent contractors, not employees.

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