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Ironically, if the drivers were actual employees, it’d be an actual barrier.
by dd36 7y ago
Ironically, if the drivers were actual employees, it’d be an actual barrier.
- jandrese 7y agoI was just thinking this. In treating their workforce as disposable they themselves became disposable.
- dumbfoundded 7y agoNot necessarily. Growth depends on the price charged to the customer. The unit economics of using "contactors" to circumvent labor (minimum wage) laws, probably offers this model to provide the cheapest price to customers. When you take into account car depreciation, the median Uber driver earns something like half of the minimum wage.