36 points

The whole gig industry is shady as shit, from Uber to those uninsured delivery drivers, most of them refugees in a vulnerable position (in Europe anyway).

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Uber is just a taxi service where the company doesn’t have to follow the normal taxi regulations and safety, pays its drivers at a much worse rate, doesn’t have to pay anything for servicing vehicles or licensing drivers, and sells your travel data.

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And it specifically undercuts existing taxi unions, hollowing out those jobs and the decades of negotiatons that they won, while also increasing cost to users. Meanwhile, I know people who’ve lost money while working for uber and doordash.

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14 points

In the US too

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27 points

might be a proxy for it’s late in the night

As opposed to… the time on the clock? Why are economists like this

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Always good to remember: the purpose of a system is what it does

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waow I can’t believe the ability to access battery state on Android and iOS was used for malicious purposes!!

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24 points

This nonsense makes me so mad in places where public transit is bad or not an option. Like, the subway or the city bus never does shit like this. 9 times out of 10, you can figure out your fare before you catch a bus.

There’s a reason that so many cities regulate taxi fares!

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10 points

low battery=high price

just what i needed!

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