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Re:I’m a software engineer at Uber and I’m voting against Pr... by hdydhdjdx on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @07:52PM (#24703835)
How does bidding matter at all as far as the employee/employer relationship in this context? It'd make more sense to argue that reinvesting in things like self-driving cars is what breaks the dynamic because the "platform" is withholding revenue from drivers to expand in a way completely unrelated to their work.
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Re:I’m a software engineer at Uber and I’m voting against Pr... by eschaton on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @10:50PM (#24704867)
When their work and pay are dictated by the platform, they are not independent of it, and are de facto employees.

Making the work they do and their pay something they decide and just obtain via the platform (just facilitated by it) then they’re actually independent of it.

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Re:I’m a software engineer at Uber and I’m voting against Pr... by 464736463 on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @01:15AM (#24705499)
Except that their work isn't dependent on the platform, they can swap nearly instantly between Uber and any other available gig platform since the requirement for all of them is simply to have a car. Pay is the same basic story, when one delivery platform isn't paying enough the attentive drivers simply hop to another platform.
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