They say stuff like 7/10 drivers want the freedom to be independent contractors and choose their hours instead of being forced into an unacceptable schedule and that prices would rise making those services unaffordable for the low income people that rely on uber/lyft to get to work etc.
why working class Californians would vote for this
Gig economy workers are not part of the regular proletariat, they're somehow even more alienated than people with traditional wage employment. I bet a lot of people with regular jobs don't know.
My idiot dad literally thinks uber drivers are making bank.
I mean the thing is there are ones who do. You just gotta hustle like crazy, live in the right areas, and deal with how precarious the job is. But if you luck out there are people who make near six figures.
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Why do these campaigns work? I dont see why working class Californians would vote for this
They say stuff like 7/10 drivers want the freedom to be independent contractors and choose their hours instead of being forced into an unacceptable schedule and that prices would rise making those services unaffordable for the low income people that rely on uber/lyft to get to work etc.
ahh, so literal lies and half-truths, nice
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Gig economy workers are not part of the regular proletariat, they're somehow even more alienated than people with traditional wage employment. I bet a lot of people with regular jobs don't know.
My idiot dad literally thinks uber drivers are making bank. I have no idea where he's got that from.
I mean the thing is there are ones who do. You just gotta hustle like crazy, live in the right areas, and deal with how precarious the job is. But if you luck out there are people who make near six figures.
Arent all of those ran at a loss in effort to break taxi unions anyway? I seem to remember hearing this on some podcast or other.
Yeah they lose millions of dollars a year just holding market share until robot cars come
basically https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2019/05/ubers-path-of-destruction/
The only profitable part of Uber is the UberEats section.