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user-inactivated  ·  2878 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: If Uber drivers were employees, they'd be owed at least $730 million

Indeed. Or more accurately, they wouldn't, because taxis exist, and so we would never have heard of Uber.

I didn't read this article, obviously, but I assume it betrays the usual basic misunderstanding of how the world works.





snoodog  ·  2878 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Taxis are not a viable alternative to UBER. They are more like a partial solution. The couldn't absorb the traffic of uber and they cannot provided the service/convenience and price UBER does. At least in Seattle taxies were barely better than public transportation, only time I ever used them was when the busses didn't run because they sucked so damn much.