When Uber tried that in Austin, competitors appeared quickly.
When Uber started up again, some of them closed and some stayed.
Rideshare operations are being suspended in California
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#332Is there a recommended on-demand chauffeur service in the Bay Area?
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#333Am I nuts, or is the heart of this issue really the fact that our healthcare system is built on tying benefits to full time jobs?
This is an interesting idea. Is this an unintended consequence of binding health insurance to your employment? According to the NYT: "During World War II, federal wage controls prevented employers from wooing workers with higher pay, so companies started offering health insurance as a way around the law. Of course, this form of nonmonetary compensation is still pay. When the war ended, the practice stuck." I would mu…
It would seem like businesses brought this on themselves ...
It's potentially good for employers, as it increases friction in the labor market.
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#334California is liberal, but California is very conservative. It shooting itself into its leg.
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#335Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you have a similar "love it or leave it" attitude when people complain about America? Not very Californian of you.
That's a good point. I think immigration is great for the country. And I never mind it my neighbors come from the mid-west or from Central America or wherever. I just get sick of people bashing California. It outgrows the rest of the country at an amazing rate, spawns world beating companies, and then people say it is socialist.
California also has the highest poverty rate in the country when you adjust for cost of living.
The successes of people within a state might be because the state. Or it might be despite the state. I think a lot of California’s success is despite the state’s actions or policies. Reasonable minds can disagree.
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#336Behold California! master of the Pyrrhic victory. Now we have more unemployment claims for CA to process. I'm sure they'll get right on that.
They weren't employees, so AFAIK they don't qualify for unemployment.
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#337Am I nuts, or is the heart of this issue really the fact that our healthcare system is built on tying benefits to full time jobs?
not just healthcare. sufficient income to support the basics of survival in our society are tied to full time jobs as well.
companies and their employees would both be better supported if we established a Universal Basic Income.
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#338DUI arrests and deaths will go up.
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#339Am I nuts, or is the heart of this issue really the fact that our healthcare system is built on tying benefits to full time jobs?
I keep paying my health insurance premium at my home country just because the health insurance in the US is completely broken. I feel that if you get seriously sick in the US you're in an almost sure path to financial insolvency. My employer pays probably a shit ton of money for my health insurance and what I get is the most subpar, confusing, broken and sometimes blatantly extortive service ever. I live in Austin an…
> I live in Austin and sometimes I think if I really need a major procedure it would be just simpler to drive to Mexico and get it done there.
This even has a name: Medical Tourism.
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#340I suspect that California is going to backpedal on this pretty quickly. Uber and Lyft are popular. Going back to taxis is going to be very unpopular. IMO, if the California Republican party was smart they would make this a wedge issue in the next election. "Elect us, and we'll make it possible to use Uber again."
Maybe in normal times, but in pandemic times who knows? Most things are shut down right now, add uber/lyft to the list and see if people actually care.