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Seattle is considering instituting a minimum fare per ride, to ensure drivers are getting compensated fairly.
Seattle considering imposing minimum fares on rideshares
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Thank you Seattle. Maybe I can make a respectable living doing this again.
Autonomous Robotaxis will just take over and all of this will be completely moot. Just a section of a page in the history books. "Remember those times when cars were driven by human beings and kept crashing into buldings? There used to be all these rules about not driving drunk and applying for driver licenses?" "Yeah, grandpa, tell us!"
Haven't you heard the recent news. Uber robot became self-aware and started killing people.
hahaha but by then none of this will matter because everyone will just be sitting in their home pod staring into their VR goggles living their virtual life.
driving for uber in their VR world
bitching about new minimum fares being imposed
I think it's funny that these companies have been stuck in this price war for so long, finally cities are starting to be like "...ummm... you guys need to cut this out. sorry."
I think I get it. The city wants to penalize Uber by raising their prices (which makes sense because they've always hated Uber) but they are doing it in the name of helping out the Uber drivers. Is that right?
bingo. give this man a prize.
So much for the wild west world of rideshares. Here comes big government.
without "big government" there won't be any rideshares anymore. no one will drive for them if they can't get paid.
If people stop driving then they will have to raise pay to compensate. That's how a free market works.
no. what actually happens is you create a class of virtual slave labor. drivers get paid peanuts. before "big government" came along and allowed unions, people worked 16 hour days 7 days a week in the mills. Including children.
Lets not be dramatic here. No one is forcing you to drive 16 hours a day.
Uber: "Nearly doubling the per-mile rideshare rate in Seattle will significantly increase costs for riders,”
but right above it it says, "The city will explore a minimum base fare of $2.40 per ride for Uber and Lyft"
Spinning it.