Good for the workers! Uber in particular is known for its anti-worker policies. Their goal is to ultimately become free of workers and then make unlimited profits with self driving cars (similar to Amazon's drive to automate). Leaving the workers with nothing.
More info on Uber and Lyft unethical behavior/operations from Richard Stallman (FSF founder): https://stallman.org/uber.html https://stallman.org/lyft.html
Their goal is to ultimately become free of workers and then make unlimited profits
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The Drivers Cooperative, which opened for business in New York this week, is the most recent attempt. The group, founded by a former Uber employee, a labor organizer and a black-car driver, began issuing ownership shares to drivers in early May and will start offering rides through its app on Sunday. The cooperative has recruited around 2,500 drivers so far and intends to take a smaller commission than Uber or Lyft and charge riders a lower fare.
Name of the co-op.
Their goal is to ultimately become free of workers and then make unlimited profits with self driving cars (similar to Amazon’s drive to automate). Leaving the workers with nothing.
A big push-button machine that generates money is definitely the end goal. But it continues to strike me as totally delusional. Like, I work in IT. Nothing we do is simply fire-and-forget. There's an entire development cycle of building / maintaining / retiring that churns on endlessly.
Excited to see if this ride-share service takes off. Uber and Lyft aren't doing anything particularly special in terms of service delivery.
