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> You're whimsically sad you can't get more fun money to invest in stock, while the reason that ride sharing is being shut down is because it takes advantage of
by majormajor 6y ago
> You're whimsically sad you can't get more fun money to invest in stock, while the reason that ride sharing is being shut down is because it takes advantage of the lower class it depends on.
The American people take advantage of the lower class by tying healthcare to employment, and in an extra-cruel way where less lucrative jobs also provide insurance that is both more expensive day-to-day to the employee AND less comprehensive.
Uncouple basic benefits from jobs and so many of these problems go away in a much simpler way.
- tyrust 6y agoGreat idea, but in the meantime these workers need healthcare.
- majormajor 6y agoAnd when Uber and Lyft shut down they get neither healthcare nor this income. Unless they find another job. Which they were free to do anyway. But that's not always so simple... So what problem did we just solve?
- tyrust 6y agoIt's hard to say because Lyft wasn't forced to shut down, they're doing it preemptively, perhaps to push for a vote on their Prop.
- lhorie 6y agoI was under the impression they're doing it because it'll be illegal for drivers to operate as contractors come tomorrow.
- weyland108 6y agoNothing.
- gizmo686 6y agoThe taxi market shifts back to companies that are willing to pay for benefits.
- emteycz 6y agoHuh, I've never heard of one. Nearly all of taxi drivers are contractors, often owning the (company-branded) car they drive.
- war1025 6y ago> Uncouple basic benefits from jobs This is basically the one actual political policy issue that I feel strongly about. A boy can dream...
- ghaff 6y agoEmployee-coupled healthcare in the US came about as a way around wage stabilization controls during WWII and was subsequently enshrined in no small part because of large unions that negotiated it as a major benefit in their contracts.