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If you remove all forms of monetary persuasion and simply look at this from the perspective of a human being, the driver is a monster.
by ecf 6y ago
If you remove all forms of monetary persuasion and simply look at this from the perspective of a human being, the driver is a monster.
- elil17 6y agoBut the monetary aspect exists, there’s no way to ignore how little Uber drivers are paid. Full time drivers earn about $30k/year without any benefits in San Francisco. That’s less than half of the poverty line for an individual and less than a third for a family of four. A person earning that little money in SF is likely to be in a really really desperate financial situation - possibly homeless. Yes, doing that to someone is wrong. It’s absolutely wrong. But I just can’t ignore the people who put the driver in that situation and the culpability they have here.
- 8fGTBjZxBcHq 6y agoYes this is the natural end to "individual responsibility" morality. Put tremendous immiserating conditions on as many people as possible and then you can blame them for the harms they cause to each other to survive it. You can even use the evidence of those harms as propaganda about why poor people are inferior in some way, or to blame for their own conditions! It's a very efficient system.