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Re:I spent two weeks delivering for Uber Eats and made $4.40... by Markoff on Saturday May 13, 2017 @07:21AM (#14330398)
TLDR Uber pays 4.4$ per hour, local competitor 17.9$

remind me again, why we need this shady company in Europe?

Re:I spent two weeks delivering for Uber Eats and made $4.40... by eru on Saturday May 13, 2017 @08:13AM (#14330548)
Who's forcing those people to work for uber, if those other companies are ostensibly paying better?
Re:I spent two weeks delivering for Uber Eats and made $4.40... by amelius on Saturday May 13, 2017 @08:28AM (#14330619)
Well, Uber might eliminate the other companies one way or another.
Re:I spent two weeks delivering for Uber Eats and made $4.40... by rwmj on Saturday May 13, 2017 @08:17AM (#14330567)
It sounds (from the article) that Uber is "flexible" about immigration rules.
Re:I spent two weeks delivering for Uber Eats and made $4.40... by eru on Saturday May 13, 2017 @08:23AM (#14330598)
Thanks for answering that!

So it looks like those higher paying jobs are not actually available for a large part of the Uber Eats workforce? How would those people benefit from being forbidden from working (= minimum wage)?

Re:I spent two weeks delivering for Uber Eats and made $4.40... by Trd on Saturday May 13, 2017 @02:24PM (#14332249)
> How would those people benefit from being forbidden from working

You are asking the wrong question. The real question is how can swedes prevent yet another unskilled job from being utterly annihilated by globalization in action?

Before Uber and undocumented migrants arriving in droves, those lines of unskilled work had better condition, quality of life. With the unfair competition of illegally employed undocumented migrants working for peanuts, it's only a matter of time before all other delivery companies shut their doors and bail. Then we'll end up with yet another job lost at the globalist hands. How much can we continue losing to globalisation? Everything, until the entire Western world has become as poor as the third world, save for the low % of SV entrepreneurs and VC?

Re:I spent two weeks delivering for Uber Eats and made $4.40... by eru on Monday May 15, 2017 @06:28PM (#14345726)
Why would the Swedes want to do that?

Productivity ultimately drives standards of living.

Re:I spent two weeks delivering for Uber Eats and made $4.40... by kgwgk on Saturday May 13, 2017 @09:52AM (#14330967)
Let's say some pawnbroker is "flexible" about the provenance of goods. How do thieves benefit from being forbidden from selling to him?
Re:I spent two weeks delivering for Uber Eats and made $4.40... by Fnoord on Saturday May 13, 2017 @04:33PM (#14332858)
Ideally, in a free society, laws are upheld by police enforcement. Thieves would therefore be unable to sell their products to a pawnshop, and the pawnshop would be unable to fence these products.

Of course, a society might fail with that goal but that doesn't make the goal invalid or non-existent.

Re:I spent two weeks delivering for Uber Eats and made $4.40... by codedokode on Saturday May 13, 2017 @09:49AM (#14330952)
So in the end if there were no migrants in Sweden then there would be no problem with low wages.
Re:I spent two weeks delivering for Uber Eats and made $4.40... by simplehuman on Saturday May 13, 2017 @10:35AM (#14331178)
Everybody is using Uber eats as a consumer...
Re:I spent two weeks delivering for Uber Eats and made $4.40... by eru on Tuesday May 16, 2017 @05:24PM (#14353420)
Are you alluding to Consumer Surplus? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_surplus)
Re:I spent two weeks delivering for Uber Eats and made $4.40... by jerguismi on Saturday May 13, 2017 @07:28AM (#14330425)
To be fair uber eats is quite a different to the uber core service. I didn't even know that uber eats had any significant market share.
Re:I spent two weeks delivering for Uber Eats and made $4.40... by 46Bit on Saturday May 13, 2017 @07:54AM (#14330489)
A possible explanation for the lack of orders they describe would be that Uber Eats doesn't have significant market share.
Re:I spent two weeks delivering for Uber Eats and made $4.40... by dilemma on Saturday May 13, 2017 @08:01AM (#14330509)
What do you mean "to be fair"? You're touching none of the facts. You just seem like a fanboy.
Re:I spent two weeks delivering for Uber Eats and made $4.40... by sundvor on Saturday May 13, 2017 @07:27AM (#14330420)
... or anywhere else.