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They can go find a different job that pays more. Uber driving is not skilled labor. How it’s justified as a 21/hr job I don’t understand.
by dymk 7y ago
They can go find a different job that pays more. Uber driving is not skilled labor. How it’s justified as a 21/hr job I don’t understand.
- morvita 7y agoI genuinely don't know how to explain that the fact it requires an income of more than 21/hr to meet basic needs is all the justification that should be required. Maybe if we stopped thinking of employees/contractors as "labor" and thought of them as people it would be easier to empathize with their needs. Do you think that your friends, family, and loved ones deserve a wage that meets their basic needs? Why shouldn't all humans deserve the same?
- dymk 7y agoIt only requires that amount if you’re intent on living in the most expensive cities in the entire country.
- toephu2 7y agoThat's not how capitalism works and that's not why companies exist. Companies pay you what you worth to them. A company is not a human, it doesn't care whether you have a family and are struggling or not. The primary purpose of a business is to maximize profits for its stakeholders.
- behringer 7y agoThen the answer is simple, if we want humanism in the way we deal with employees, than businesses that seek to maximize profits for their stakeholders should be outlawed.
- behringer 7y agoWhy should skilled laborors be able to raise a family and not unskilled? Like what makes educated people more valuable as human beings?
- dymk 7y agoAlmost anybody is able to become a skilled laborer :) all it takes is time and effort.
- behringer 7y agoAnd a skilled laboror doesn't deserve more than 60-100k/year or more than? Why should everybody's pay be the same or decreasing and not CEOs and VCs?
- dymk 7y agoYou should be paid what the market says you’re worth, which is exactly what you can negotiate to be paid.
- behringer 7y agoWhich is exactly what we're talking about. Instead of getting paid what we're worth, we have mega corporations like Uber breaking laws, ignoring regulations, and then lobbying for regulations when it suits them. It's rather disgusting.