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> What these new “employees” are going to get, is fired. If the choice is between raising prices to support higher employee expenditures, and firing all of the
by ac29 7y ago
> What these new “employees” are going to get, is fired.
If the choice is between raising prices to support higher employee expenditures, and firing all of their drivers and leaving the California market, you think they'll choose the latter?
Or is there a third option I'm not thinking of?
- didibus 7y agoFiring some of their drivers, not all. And making it harder for someone to become a driver. Like say someone wants to drive 2 days a month, they won't be able too anymore. Uber will probably pick only the serious drivers willing to do it full time, fire all the others, and we have ourself a taxi industry again.
- lozenge 7y agoAlthough Uber touts their casual drivers, I'm sure that a huge % of the rides are actually served by very serious drivers working roughly full time.
- solidasparagus 7y agoBankruptcy? Uber and Lyft bleed money now, I can't imagine what it would be like if they had to add employee benefit costs on top of that.
- lozenge 7y agoThey'll raise prices (which will drop demand) and fire drivers (which will increase waiting time, and hence drop demand).