Re:Uber and Lyft Are Adding Jobs, Not Just Stealing Them
by PhasmaFelis on Friday June 03, 2016 @05:33PM
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Uber hasn't created "thousands of small entrepreneurs." They've created a special class of labor that has all the burdens of both employee and contractor status, with none of the privileges of either.
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Re:Uber and Lyft Are Adding Jobs, Not Just Stealing Them
by dragonwriter on Friday June 03, 2016 @07:52PM
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> They've created a special class of labor that has all the burdens of both employee and contractor status, with none of the privileges of either.
I'm not even sure that's really the case; taxi drivers were already largely theoretically independent operators contracting with the cab company which provides dispatch, provides the vehicle under a lease arrangement, etc.
Re:Uber and Lyft Are Adding Jobs, Not Just Stealing Them
by beambot on Friday June 03, 2016 @07:43PM
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Calling drivers "small entrepreneurs" is BS -- but equating a "work whenever and however much you want" driver gig with a fixed-work-hours employee is also BS.
It is truly a new class of "job" -- with pluses and minuses (the distribution of positives and negatives are up for debate).