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Re:CA Law Was to Give Uber Drivers New Protections. Instead,... by unishark on Sunday September 13, 2020 @08:17AM (#24460341)
In places like New York, the taxi medallion is only required for picking up people on the street. If the customer calls them up it is a different story, anyone can operate that way (so I don't see why a taxi driver can't do it too on their own time). This is why Uber can exist, regardless whether their drivers are employees or independent.
Re:CA Law Was to Give Uber Drivers New Protections. Instead,... by syshum on Sunday September 13, 2020 @12:17PM (#24461830)
Does the driver own and maintain the car they are using for this moonlighting?
Re:CA Law Was to Give Uber Drivers New Protections. Instead,... by RandoHolmes on Sunday September 13, 2020 @12:28PM (#24461930)
No one is saying that current laws aren't bullshit, they obviously are.

The point is that that if Uber goes away, it won't stop people from paying for rides.

It's a bit like claiming if Hershey's claimed that people would stop eating chocolate if they couldn't abuse their relationship with local governments to get water rights they have no business having.

Noooooooo, people will still like Chocolate, it's just that more "moral" companies will replace them.

If anything, the value of chocolate will go up and that's perfectly acceptable.

Re:CA Law Was to Give Uber Drivers New Protections. Instead,... by syshum on Sunday September 13, 2020 @12:46PM (#24462083)
>>it won't stop people from paying for rides.

It will stop some people, The number of people that use Uber and Lyft massively exceeds the number of people that used Taxis before them

There is a reason for this, and if your solution is well people will just use taxis" clearly that was not the case.

>>If anything, the value of chocolate will go up and that's perfectly acceptable

I see you are speaking from a position of Wealth Privilege..

I wonder if you would feel the same if that price increase was in something less of luxury good like Wheat or corn where a price increase would be counted in lives not dollars