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There is an important distinction for many workers between the hard labor ina restaurant and the hard labor done for Uber for X. There is a chance with diligen
by lumost 5y ago
There is an important distinction for many workers between the hard labor ina restaurant and the hard labor done for Uber for X.
There is a chance with diligent effort that you can become manager for the restaurant or even start your own. The restaurant is even notionally liable for unemployment and minimum wage laws. Uber for X means permanent hard labor at low wages with no possibility for advancement or improved conditions.
- 908B64B197 5y agoJust learn to code!
- lumost 5y agoUber has between 3 and 4 million drivers compared to 29000 employees. If you follow the HN and Blind comment threads there is substantial belief that they could survive with half to 1/4th that number. Even assuming that only 10% of Uber drivers care about advancement and learn to code that would create 300k new software engineers, far more than Uber could ever hope to employee. In fact this would be more software engineers than the total number of engineers employed by the top 5 tech companies by market cap.
- MarkSweep 5y agoAnother thing I’m not sure the “independent contractors” who work for Uber for X get: workers’ compensation. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workers'_compensation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workers'_compensation