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Re:MIT study that found low pay for Uber drivers to be revis... by poulsbohemian on Sunday March 04, 2018 @11:47AM (#16515323)
>"Uber is not a full time job for a lot of people"

I don't know this to be true without seeing a citation. In Seattle and Maui (two places I've used a car service recently), it has seemed to me at least the Lyft drivers I've encountered were all full-time drivers.

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Re:MIT study that found low pay for Uber drivers to be revis... by Someone on Sunday March 04, 2018 @04:31PM (#16516888)
Could be because, when you use the service, you aren’t sampling drivers uniformly. For example, only 10% of drivers could do it full time, but 90% of all rides could have a full time driver.

(Numbers for illustration only; they aren’t likely to reflect Uber’s population of drivers)

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Re:MIT study that found low pay for Uber drivers to be revis... by closeparen on Sunday March 04, 2018 @09:31PM (#16518282)
I've heard (not verified) that Lyft's incentive schemes contain cliffs that encourage/select for driving full-time to a much greater degree than Uber.
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