CEO of Uber: Gig Workers Deserve Better

Re:CEO of Uber: Gig Workers Deserve Better by mrguyorama on Monday August 10, 2020 @12:05PM (#24110714)

You don't even need intent to squeeze out poor people. Why would a contractor build an 800 sq/ft house to sell to low income people when you can make over 2x the profit on a McMansion?

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Re:CEO of Uber: Gig Workers Deserve Better by dionidium on Monday August 10, 2020 @04:11PM (#24113477)

Because you can put more units on the land and make less money per unit, but more money overall. We don't have to guess about this. We used to allow developers to build and this is exactly what happened. (We already have places like Queens, for example. It's not hypothetical.) Then we made it more or less illegal to build and that's why it doesn't happen anymore.

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Re:CEO of Uber: Gig Workers Deserve Better by MattGaiser on Monday August 10, 2020 @01:58PM (#24112067)

You would theoretically use proportionally less land, so stick three 800 sqft homes on it.

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