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Pretty sure "being a chauffeur" has never really been a growth market.

• ThomPete 11y ago
  No but it's been an income market allowing you to provide for your family. I have nothing against progress, lets just not claim that it's somehow better for the drivers. For us as consumers sure, but not for the drivers.
  • seiji 11y ago
    The goal of startups is to enrich the founders, not be a net benefit for society. If you have to destroy the world and crush employees to increase your net worth, that's just how the game is played.
  • PKop 11y ago
    Until driverless cars exist, it is better for the drivers correct? And, driverless cars, if they do happen, will happen whether uber or lyft were around or not. So in the mean time, having them around is better for drivers.
    • ThomPete 11y ago
      No it's not better for the drivers. It's better for the consumers. The drivers are hired as freelancers but treated like employers. How is that better for the drivers?
      • icebraining 11y ago
        That was already the case for most taxi drivers. Except they also had to pay to rent the medallions to some useless rentier like Evgeny Freidman, while Uber doesn't charge.
      • douche 11y ago
        They tend to make more money as Uber/Lyft drivers than they do as medallion cab drivers? I've been taking a fair number of Uber rides lately, and the fares are both much lower for me, and much higher for them, because Uber gives them a considerably higher cut than they would get working for a taxi company. Owner-operators might be a different matter.