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And yet people still do it. I guess the drivers still find it useful, if they didn't, why would they continue driving?
Because they have literally no other choice? When your choice is to lose money driving for Uber, or starve, you kinda lose the ability to stop if you don't find it "useful".
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That is entirely dependent on where you live and the quality of the Taxis. For example, in the London and Singapore, Taxis are awesome. In California, (particularly in the Bay area) - Taxis are horrible beyond belief. The cars are unsafe and uncomfortable, the drivers are terrible and lack knowledge. It's often the case that I will come out of a peninsula hotel (Say, San Mateo) and see a queue of taxis waiting to pic…
In front of that hotel in San Mateo, are the Uber customers chasing a better experience, or a better deal?
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They talk about two distinct policies here, a personal policy (which still has to permit ridesharing, according to the illustration), which applies at any moment the driver is using the car for personal use (i.e. not logged into the Uber app to accept trips), then another policy, provided by Intact, which covers the Uber trips. This page seems to be more about a kind of interface between the two policies, not that Ub…
Yes there are two distinct policies, both offered by Intact or their subsidiaries: 1. A commercial policy paid for by Uber which covers all Uber drivers while online. 2. A personal policy paid for by the driver which covers them while offline and explicitly permits ridesharing at no extra cost. This personal policy is the same price as the competitors without ridesharing, so it is not an added expense.
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I'm curious -- how does this work with, for example, a professional Youtuber? Are they considered Youtube employees?
This is a great question and a pretty common misconception. No, because the revenue test is one of the criteria the judge/IRS looks at. There are other criteria like where and how the "contractor" wants the job done and the relationship between the parties. Youtube does not tell these Youtubers how to present their videos Youtube does not tell these Youtubers how long their videos should be Youtube does not tell thes…