Rideshare operations are being suspended in California

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Post by el_duderino » Thu, Aug 20, 2020, 4:24 PM UTC

Rideshare operations are being suspended in California
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Post by rodiger » Thu, Aug 20, 2020, 4:30 PM UTC

Will be interesting to see how this plays out. Doesn't seem like it would be feasible to maintain all drivers as employees.

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Post by heyoni » Thu, Aug 20, 2020, 4:31 PM UTC

rodiger wrote: post #2

Will be interesting to see how this plays out. Doesn't seem like it would be feasible to maintain all drivers as employees.

It’s going to be impossible to just casually drive for them too.

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Post by manigandham » Thu, Aug 20, 2020, 4:31 PM UTC

California (govt) is fantastic at making California worse.

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Post by newguy1234 » Thu, Aug 20, 2020, 4:31 PM UTC

Thoughts on speculation that this will cause drunk driving deaths to increase?

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Post by dannyw » Thu, Aug 20, 2020, 4:33 PM UTC

I used to drive for Uber, a few hours a week during my downtime when I was bored and had nothing better to do.

The earnings weren’t great, but it was very helpful as an extra. I had a fuel efficient car and kept track of all my expenses for deductions and made above minimum wage.

I’ve met plenty of lovely and fascinating people and had great, enjoyable conversations. I barely had any issues with riders.

This extra income helped me buy more stocks and make just a little bit more progress towards my financial goals. These stocks are still compounding away.

I’m a bit sad that this opportunity is now taken away from Californians.

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Post by ivarv » Thu, Aug 20, 2020, 4:33 PM UTC

So this is basically an admission that the ridesharing business model is not viable without worker exploitation?

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Post by gotoeleven » Thu, Aug 20, 2020, 4:34 PM UTC

California has proven itself again and again to be really good at centrally planning the economic activities of individuals so I think this will work out pretty well in the end.

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Post by nemothekid » Thu, Aug 20, 2020, 4:34 PM UTC

When I moved to CA, I put off getting a CA license for years. I always told myself I'd go to the DMV and do the paperwork, then I waited long enough to find out I would have to retake the test, until finally I just resigned to using Uber and Lyft all the time. I never thought I would need it and so I never made it a priority.

So this news really sucks, as you haven't been able to schedule DMV appointments at all and it looks like it will continue to be that way for the foreseeable futuere. I understand the Uber/Lyft may have had this a long time coming but it really is inconvenient for this to happen during COVID.

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Post by manigandham » Thu, Aug 20, 2020, 4:34 PM UTC

ivarv wrote: post #7

So this is basically an admission that the ridesharing business model is not viable without worker exploitation?

People freely working is not exploitation. Full time driving jobs already exist if you wanted that instead of freelance rideshare driving.