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eBay and Airbnb sellers are using their own capital to buy and sell goods that they own. They are not selling their labor in any sense. Uber drivers use their o
by jeremyjh 7y ago
eBay and Airbnb sellers are using their own capital to buy and sell goods that they own. They are not selling their labor in any sense. Uber drivers use their own cars but they are primarily selling their labor.
- entropea 7y agoThey include the cost of all of that in their prices, at least, someone who ran a good business would. This is not comparable to Uber, because drivers do not set their own prices. I also am pretty certain Uber takes much higher percent cut than eBay and Paypal/payment processing.
- dmode 7y agoDoes it matter whether labor or capital is sold ? The ABC test doesn’t check for that. Uber drivers also use their own capital to buy cars. The major difference is setting prices
- jeremyjh 7y ago> The ABC test doesn’t check for that. It does. It is labor law, and it applies to labor, not to transactions performed in a market place. >The ruling and the bill instruct businesses to use the so-called “ABC test” to figure out whether a worker is an employee. > (b) is doing work that isn’t central to the company’s business Workers doing work.