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TLDR Uber pays 4.4$ per hour, local competitor 17.9$ remind me again, why we need this shady company in Europe?

by Markoff 10y ago

sundvor 10y ago
... or anywhere else.
jerguismi 10y ago
To be fair uber eats is quite a different to the uber core service. I didn't even know that uber eats had any significant market share.
- 46Bit 10y ago
  A possible explanation for the lack of orders they describe would be that Uber Eats doesn't have significant market share.
- dilemma 10y ago
  What do you mean "to be fair"? You're touching none of the facts. You just seem like a fanboy.
eru 10y ago
Who's forcing those people to work for uber, if those other companies are ostensibly paying better?
- rwmj 10y ago
  It sounds (from the article) that Uber is "flexible" about immigration rules.
  - eru 10y ago
    Thanks for answering that! So it looks like those higher paying jobs are not actually available for a large part of the Uber Eats workforce? How would those people benefit from being forbidden from working (= minimum wage)?
    - codedokode 10y ago
      So in the end if there were no migrants in Sweden then there would be no problem with low wages.
    - kgwgk 10y ago
      Let's say some pawnbroker is "flexible" about the provenance of goods. How do thieves benefit from being forbidden from selling to him?
      - Fnoord 10y ago
        Ideally, in a free society, laws are upheld by police enforcement. Thieves would therefore be unable to sell their products to a pawnshop, and the pawnshop would be unable to fence these products. Of course, a society might fail with that goal but that doesn't make the goal invalid or non-existent.
    - Trd 10y ago
      > How would those people benefit from being forbidden from working You are asking the wrong question. The real question is how can swedes prevent yet another unskilled job from being utterly annihilated by globalization in action? Before Uber and undocumented migrants arriving in droves, those lines of unskilled work had better condition, quality of life. With the unfair competition of illegally employed undocumented migrants working for peanuts, it's only a matter of time before all other delivery companies shut their doors and bail. Then we'll end up with yet another job lost at the globalist hands. How much can we continue losing to globalisation? Everything, until the entire Western world has become as poor as the third world, save for the low % of SV entrepreneurs and VC?
      - eru 9y ago
        Why would the Swedes want to do that? Productivity ultimately drives standards of living.
- amelius 10y ago
  Well, Uber might eliminate the other companies one way or another.
- simplehuman 10y ago
  Everybody is using Uber eats as a consumer...
  - eru 9y ago
    Are you alluding to Consumer Surplus? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_surplus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_surplus)

TLDR Uber pays 4.4$ per hour, local competitor 17.9$ remind me again, why we need this shady company in Europe?

by Markoff 10y ago

TLDR Uber pays 4.4$ per hour, local competitor 17.9$ remind me again, why we need this shady company in Europe?

sundvor 10y ago

... or anywhere else.

jerguismi 10y ago

To be fair uber eats is quite a different to the uber core service. I didn't even know that uber eats had any significant market share.

46Bit 10y ago
A possible explanation for the lack of orders they describe would be that Uber Eats doesn't have significant market share.
dilemma 10y ago
What do you mean "to be fair"? You're touching none of the facts. You just seem like a fanboy.

eru 10y ago

Who's forcing those people to work for uber, if those other companies are ostensibly paying better?

rwmj 10y ago
It sounds (from the article) that Uber is "flexible" about immigration rules.
- eru 10y ago
  Thanks for answering that! So it looks like those higher paying jobs are not actually available for a large part of the Uber Eats workforce? How would those people benefit from being forbidden from working (= minimum wage)?
  - codedokode 10y ago
    So in the end if there were no migrants in Sweden then there would be no problem with low wages.
  - kgwgk 10y ago
    Let's say some pawnbroker is "flexible" about the provenance of goods. How do thieves benefit from being forbidden from selling to him?
    - Fnoord 10y ago
      Ideally, in a free society, laws are upheld by police enforcement. Thieves would therefore be unable to sell their products to a pawnshop, and the pawnshop would be unable to fence these products. Of course, a society might fail with that goal but that doesn't make the goal invalid or non-existent.
  - Trd 10y ago
    > How would those people benefit from being forbidden from working You are asking the wrong question. The real question is how can swedes prevent yet another unskilled job from being utterly annihilated by globalization in action? Before Uber and undocumented migrants arriving in droves, those lines of unskilled work had better condition, quality of life. With the unfair competition of illegally employed undocumented migrants working for peanuts, it's only a matter of time before all other delivery companies shut their doors and bail. Then we'll end up with yet another job lost at the globalist hands. How much can we continue losing to globalisation? Everything, until the entire Western world has become as poor as the third world, save for the low % of SV entrepreneurs and VC?
    - eru 9y ago
      Why would the Swedes want to do that? Productivity ultimately drives standards of living.
amelius 10y ago
Well, Uber might eliminate the other companies one way or another.
simplehuman 10y ago
Everybody is using Uber eats as a consumer...
- eru 9y ago
  Are you alluding to Consumer Surplus? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_surplus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_surplus)