Is it a matter of guilt? You feel guilty for having a decent paying job when not everybody does, and this seems like a silver bullet to fix everything?
A majority of drivers support prop 22, I don’t understand how more people don’t weigh that into their decision making. To you, you want to stick it to the greedy bastards at Uber by forcing this law through, and if it runs them out of business all the better. Have you considered there are millions of drivers that would actually like to keep their ability to work, and this is not just a big virtue signaling exercise to them like it is to you?
Just before...
> Data-wise:
> Where is your evidence?
Too ironic.
> Vote no Prop 22, otherwise you are bailing out failed companies that work on unreliable business models.
I love this. You're conflating a business model that doesn't work under a set of (possibly) onerous regulations to a failed business model. Who has it failed for? And don't say investors, because these are smart people who believe there is a path to profitability.
I wasn't making a specific claim, so didn't find the need to present data, you know, for the claim I'm not making.
> I love this. You're conflating a business model that doesn't work under a set of (possibly) onerous regulations to a failed business model. Who has it failed for? And don't say investors, because these are smart people who believe there is a path to profitability.
It's a failed business model because it cannot operate once these companies are asked to pay living wages - which they don't. Hence...failed. If I were to open up a factory and paid my workers $0.50/hour and then got shut down for not paying minimum wage; the burden of that failure would be on me, not the state that's asking me to pay minimum wage.
Who cares about investors?
This isn't a good argument that tips are a beneficial practice.
I am more accustomed to price including the waiters salary and rarely only tipping when service is truly exceptional.
This is also the reason I and many others prefer ride shares, price is transparent and upfront, in traditional taxies the negotiations depends on your local knowledge, knowledge of drivers' language etc and your people skills and it takes effort.
A standard practice in many many places to take the unfamiliar passenger for a ride, taking the longer route, or going in circles just to run up the meter.
While with gps and smartphones going in circles has come down, taking a different route, or other more subtle meter running happens still.
It can be a lot worse with straight up cheating too. I have seen souped up meters which are not directly connected to odometers etc.
I have also seen places where if you don't know the language and/or localite they will demand more than the meter and create a scene get nearby friends to support them.
When running late to airport or someplace urgent pretending no change to charge more .
The list of tricks go on, ridesharing did away with a lot of that.
P.S. it is not all taxi drivers are evil or something, plenty of them have been really helpful in tough spots even the ones who ripped me off have come back to return a valuable item I missed.
100% counter to what virtually every Lyft driver who drives full-time has told me.
Data-wise:
Where is your evidence? I thought that by now, the free market would have solved all of the above problems?
Philosophically:
No one's job should be dependent on tips. Tips ALWAYS are filtered via biases that tap into sexism, racism, xenophobia, and never a financially responsible way of building an economy.
Vote no Prop 22, otherwise you are bailing out failed companies that work on unreliable business models.