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Re:Uber CEO says its service will probably shut down tempora... by smsm42 on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @04:44PM (#24136736)
Taxis have had "You can't get a ride in a poor neighborhood" for ages. If California kills Uber, we're back to the same taxis. So how exactly what is happening now helps solve the "You can't get a ride in a poor neighborhood" problem?

> Those features aren't a good faith attempt to comply with the law

There can be no good attempt to comply with this (completely terrible) law from Uber, since this law was meant to outlaw the whole business model Uber is using. Uber was founded on creating a novel working model, which didn't exist before. California decided to outlaw this model wholesale. The only "good faith attempt" from Uber to deal with it can be to stop operating in California completely. Of course the same goes for Lyft and any other company which uses "freelance employee" model.

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Re:Uber CEO says its service will probably shut down tempora... by crooked-v on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @05:44PM (#24137357)
> There can be no good attempt to comply with this (completely terrible) law from Uber

Actually, it's very simple: treat them as employees, including granting required benefits and paying them at least minimum wage for time worked (presumably at the higher of either minimum wage or per-trip earnings for the time period).

Nothing about this is incompatible with allowing employees to pick their own working hours.

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Re:Uber CEO says its service will probably shut down tempora... by unishark on Thursday August 13, 2020 @12:30AM (#24139950)
> Taxis have had "You can't get a ride in a poor neighborhood" for ages.

Also restaurants refuse to deliver to poor neighborhoods after their delivery person gets robbed there once or twice. I've seen this problem in New York.

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