If the system games you, game the system.
in germany uber eats has hired exactly zero drivers, they’re all sub-subcontractors, which is major bs, and some parties are looking into forced employment for algorithmic workers
(though afaik uber the taxi company actually hires out taxi drivers and owns the cars, operating like a regular taxi company as they try and loosen regularions)
for some reason, i can’t hate them for this. i mean i never get food delivered like that anyways, so maybe my feelings don’t matter. but obviously things are not easy for under drivers.
Wtf where is the thought even come from that you should hate them?
Why should you hate them?
That’s got to be the most stupid thing a human can do, but at the end of the day, there is a reason why they are uber drivers
- While it might increase the payout for the drivers, it also increases the price for the one ordering food eventually.
- if 5 people are doing this, person number 6 will take the job, smirk, and earn money while all the others don’t earn anything at all.
- things like these are most likely illegal, as what they are forming is a cartel. They are individual contracors, individual legal entities. If they make such deals to increase their price, they will not only all get banned from Uber, they also face charges with fines.
All of that, so that they get €15.63 instead of €15.61
Of course a guy called antianarchist is copy pasting capitalist propaganda generated by a chatbot.
Ah yes, using more than five words in a sentence seems to be already inhumane to you. It is always easy to find excuses.
You’re a clown.
Seems like you’ve got a low bar for stupidity.
Better to have a low bar for stupidity than having a low bar for intelligence.
Must be rough to have both.
Very cute. First day at “how to insult” school? I am already bored.
Jesus fucking Christ, do better. Are you a child? That is a piss excuse for an insult.
Oh, they brought a class colleague.
Fuck, you’re bad at this.
Also, the word you were looking for is classmate, colleagues would imply we are coworkers in the same field, you fucking idiot.
Wow. Where did you get that insult? The gently loved and previously used insult store?
I am very intelligent.
Its an absolutely garbage service and needs to no longer exist. All food delivery services like this are trash and I refuse to use them. And ridicule/shame everyone that does.
how else are you supposed to deliver food to a friend in a different city/state without telling them?
You do realize you could still call a location and ask them to deliver it? God I’m old.
The vast majority of restaurants no longer have their own delivery capacity
And most never did
Cabs literally filled this role lol
Uh maybe if you give the guy like 50€ to bother bringing you food after work instead of going straight home, can’t imagine they’d do it for much less after a hard day of work?
that only works on significantly less funny restaurants
Higher prices still mean higher profits for Uber, right?
Last time I got surge pricing here it was 3x the price and the driver told me he only got a 20%ish increase on his pay, so yeah, uber pockets most of the difference
Companies like Uber frequently charge customers more and try to pocket the difference. They lowball drivers and hope they accept the lower fee.
I wonder if anti monopoly laws would apply to those independent contractors?
This is just unionising
where is the boundary between a sufficiently powerful union and a monopoly on labor?
you know what is an attempt at monopolizing labour? AI subscriptions, if they did achieve what they claim to be.
A monopoly on labour? Lmfao
That would unironically be the most based thing ever, because all labour would become class conscious and form a monopoly. Capitalists can get fucked
A monopoly on labour is not a thing, because labour is not a resource that is controllable by anyone in that way. (Excepting slavery and feudalism)
a sufficiently broad non-compete can absolutely control labour supply, unless /until it is deemed unlawful
Jumping Redditor living in a world where capital has all the power and labour is effectively crippled: “what if labour hypothetically somehow goes too far and becomes the real enemy… Yeah that would be bad… Best keep things like this just in case”
Nah
What they are doing probably falls under anti cartell law rather than anti monopoly
