Re:U.S. judge says Uber drivers are not company's employees
by busterarm on Friday April 13, 2018 @05:52PM
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This was never up to debate.
My comments were purely based on the parent commenter saying that "driving a cab was never a decent living, ask any cabbie", which is false.
This is a derail. Does raise an interesting discussion of whether consumer convenience should always be optimized for though.
If you look at clothing, it's convenient and cheap because of an exploitative labor market built on appalling wages and child labor. Maybe I don't want the pilot of my plane or driver of my car working under those conditions though...
My comments were purely based on the parent commenter saying that "driving a cab was never a decent living, ask any cabbie", which is false.
This is a derail. Does raise an interesting discussion of whether consumer convenience should always be optimized for though.
If you look at clothing, it's convenient and cheap because of an exploitative labor market built on appalling wages and child labor. Maybe I don't want the pilot of my plane or driver of my car working under those conditions though...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_by_pilot