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Re:Uber is laying off 3,700, as rides plummet due to Covid-19 by VLM on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @01:04PM (#23093484)
If delivery driving is going to be socialized as a jobs program, is it the ideal jobs program? I think not.

There must be unprofitable business activities that would make better jobs programs. Student stipends, vocational training, teachers aides for natives learning foreign languages, subsidized English language lessons, almost anything would be a better investment for immigrant men than subsidization of unprofitable delivery services. Arguably just handing out money and skipping the unprofitable business activity would cause less damage and waste to the environment.

Re:Uber is laying off 3,700, as rides plummet due to Covid-19 by WC3w6pXxgGd on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @04:16PM (#23095771)
If something is unprofitable, that is a signal that resources are being misallocated.