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That's a valid point. The question is why all other Uber/Lyft drivers are not changing jobs for something fancier if that is so easy.
by piokoch 6y ago
That's a valid point. The question is why all other Uber/Lyft drivers are not changing jobs for something fancier if that is so easy.
- NovemberWhiskey 6y agoWell, maybe it's because the flexibility of work is important to those people, and they don't want a full-time job. Nearly 75% of all Uber drivers in CA drive <25 hours per week. More than 40% of all trips in CA are driven by those drivers.
- Oliphaunts 6y agoSome plausible reasons the drivers don't change jobs are (1) that RideCos offer the drivers paying work they prefer to their other realistic options, and (2) relatedly, that RideCos are more willing than other companies to offer the drivers work. Perhaps the drivers would have more good options if employment in other professions were not so heavily regulated. But (absent significant price controls) it seems like this is the sort of profession we should expect to attract marginal, low-skilled employees whose lives may inspire some sympathy, through no particular fault of the RideCos.