Re:Taxi Medallion Prices Are Plummeting, Endangering Loans
by mirimir on Monday January 30, 2017 @10:01PM
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Yes, data would be best. Maybe it's hard to make money as an Uber driver. But driving cab is not such a great job either.
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Re:Taxi Medallion Prices Are Plummeting, Endangering Loans
by hackuser on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @08:43PM
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> driving cab is not such a great job either
Many things are 'not ... great', but some of them are much better than others. Homelessness isn't great, neither is a low-wage job and public housing, neither is a decent paying job with an awful boss, neither is being a graduate TA at MIT for an awful professor - but some of those are clearly better than others.
The drivers I've spoken to mostly thought that Uber's entrance into the market had hurt their incomes significantly. Of course, that's hardly a representative sample.