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Re:Seattle approves minimum wage for Uber and Lyft drivers by Red_Leaves_Flyy on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @12:51PM (#24640793)
If the goal was a desperate work force then we succeeded decades ago.

By measuring sufficiency of pay against the population of drivers you're not measuring anything useful. Intellectually indolent comments like this are overtly harmful to the people desperate enough to work for nearly half their cities minimum wage.

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Re:Seattle approves minimum wage for Uber and Lyft drivers by quest88 on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @01:41PM (#24641366)
How many of the drivers are desperate? What would you prefer to measure?
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Re:Seattle approves minimum wage for Uber and Lyft drivers by Red_Leaves_Flyy on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @12:56AM (#24694825)
Is it fair to assume that anyone working for less than a cities livable wage is desperate until proven otherwise?*

I'd prefer to interview everyone and get hard data about what people need and want. What they're sacrificing, what they have too much of, how their talents are being wasted etc. That's impossible though, so I took a shortcut*.

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