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And i think it's OK. There is a reason why professional truck drivers must not drive longer than specified amount of time without taking breaks. Work safety regulations are usually written in blood.
But the work is fundamentally different. You can work 80 hours in retail for example. With Uber drivers it's not "drive down long stretch of road without a break for 8 hours".
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Or the drivers could be paid a wage and it wouldn't be a problem. It sounds like the current system for compensating drivers creates an incentive for bad service in this instance, not good.
How is taking rides on the way home bad service? Why should I get the same wage as a sub par driver?
>Why should I get the same wage as a sub par driver Because that's not how the world works. It isn't some meritocratic paradise that fairly pays people for their work. Besides, nothing says uber can't pay you more for being a better fully employed driver. If you truly are a better driver, surely you could get a raise right?
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And how can we know that you're not a shill?
How do we know you’re not a shill? What does this question do other than lower the level of discourse in the community?
Asking how we can know the OP is not a shill just seemed like a less long-winded way to make that point. It was late.
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And how can we know that you're not a shill?
I'm enthusiastic about the software that Uber and Lyft are developing to make this whole thing work so beautifully. I catch their algorithms making mistakes sometimes. I catch them doing something sneaky sometimes (Lyft more than Uber.) I have some ideas on how to make it work better. I've done 2000 rides and picked up some really interesting people. I like to go to different cities and try them out. It's fun. If my…
> "Up to 70% of drivers are like me and ... would like you to vote yes on Prop 22 if you are in California."
This is a claim that has been widely promulgated by the big gig-economy companies in a wide-ranging PR campaign. Do you have any actual independently-verifiable data to support it, or are you just blindly repeating it to advance a political agenda that you just happen to support?
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You are making this out to be a political argument which it is not. The point is when all levels of government align under one party, which has leaders, it becomes more like a dictatorship. I don’t care how bad you personally consider the Republican party, there are those who consider Democrats the same way. That polar mindset is the problem. It’s not as black and white as you make it out to be and many people often…
> You are making this out to be a political argument which it is not. No, I'm not. I'm making it out to be a factual argument about the causes of the present political situation, which it very much is. You seem to be unable to separate evaluation of the factual causes and effects of political situation with moral evaluation of the involved actors. > The point is when all levels of government align under one party, wh…
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Respectfully, you're paying for a ride, not for someone to make eye contact with you while sucking your dick. And even if they do make eye contact, it doesn't actually mean that they like it. Forcing people to feign pleasure under threat of poverty may work to a certain extent, but it's harmful to social cohesion in the long run. It breeds resentment and humiliation, and it's harmful to mental health and self-esteem,…
I know you may find this hard to believe, but some people like to help other people and be of service. I drive where I want and when I want. I don't have to pick anyone up. That's going to change if we have to be employees. Taking away freedom and forcing employees to follow restrictive rules is how to breed resentment. You're going to miss Lyft and Uber when it is gone and turns into a taxi company.
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But the work is fundamentally different. You can work 80 hours in retail for example. With Uber drivers it's not "drive down long stretch of road without a break for 8 hours".
"Less repetitive/boring" != "less mentally taxing".
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"ride sharing" is not how people use it. People use it as a cab.
And it doesn't matter. Now it's a fully consensual relationship between Uber and the driver (and the customer), where everyone involved agrees to the terms voluntarily. The law changes that, and will simply result in the loss of jobs.
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Reminder that the Democratic party, like all others, is an IRS-registered business, and like all others, has only one goal: to make money. It’s not a sacred oath to save the world. It’s a taco stand next to a hot dog vendor. They make money. Maybe they have a big customer. It’s probably not you. You’re a good customer but you’ll never eat a hot dog, so they don’t have to change their menu for you.
That's a shockingly cynical view. Not everyone exists purely to make money.
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No... it's not this simple. The mechanism for overriding a government existing is one thing, but making it so easy to trigger for the most random things left and right is quite another. I'm not sure if you've seen the CA ballots, but casting an informed vote is quite arduous for the average person, partly due to the nuances involved in the topics (experts who've spent their lives studying these topics can easily disa…
> casting an informed vote is quite arduous for the average person This argument always comes up when discussing direct democracy or similar ideas, but it completely collapses under even the most basic scrutiny! Direct voting is strictly better than delegated voting, because you can always ... wait for it ... delegate your vote! You don’t care enough about the issue to educate yourself? Simply cast the vote for the o…