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I feel somewhat vindicated now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16503558 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16503558

• mc32 9y ago
  Sometimes we are too quick to agree with things that reinforce our beliefs. In this case that ride service platforms are squeezing out the last penny from their captive servants. Do, hats off to you for doing some due diligence and doing some back of the napkin calculations proving a study incorrect in its assertion.
  • jmull 9y ago
    Well, while ~$9/hr is a lot better than ~$4, it's still well in the category of squeezing drivers, IMO. In fact, if your goal is to squeeze your drivers, you actually don't want to squeeze too hard because soon you'll have no one left to squeeze. $9/hr is perhaps a level a number of people can (barely) subsist at (at least for a while) while $4/hr may be untenable for almost everyone. (I agree, though, that drivers aren't like captive servants, as some seem to assume.)
    • wgerard 9y ago
      FWIW I actually agree with you re: squeezing, just something about the numbers either way didn't seem to add up (others were quoting $13/hr, study was saying $3/hr).