Quote (bogie160 @ Mar 17 2021 10:20pm)
Uber's innovation goes far beyond paying "gig workers". They've done taxi service far better than taxi companies ever could. Better technology, better service, better price.
Taxi'ing food on a part time basis is not something which deserves a "living wage". The nature of employment necessitates that they be contractors.
We should be beyond ecstatic that a nefarious monopoly was snuffed out of our lives and that there is competition in an industry, which impacts all of us, where there wasn't before.
In the case of food delivery, they probably do need to be contractors.
In the case of taxi, probably not.
However, this doesn't really go against any of my points, that the gig economy (in this case in the form of taxi drivers) comes at the expense of traditional employment and one of the negatives is that the gig workers are paid less and not given benefits, and that this isn't some "leg up" in the system that we can apply to everybody.