Uber will charge significantly more per trip as new Seattle law goes into effect

Re:Uber will charge significantly more per trip as new Seatt... by midasuni on Thursday December 31, 2020 @01:17PM (#25595340)

Your example had the $12 job giving you $16, and the $15 job giving you $16

What’s the difference?

What stops you doing a deal where you (on paper) work 80 hours a week for $8 rather than 40 for $16, you’d cost the employer the same, but you would get twice the income ($1280 a week).

How do you even define when you’re working.

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Re:Uber will charge significantly more per trip as new Seatt... by missedthecue on Thursday December 31, 2020 @04:53PM (#25597604)

You'd make more money taking the $15 job than the $12 job. Your W-2 says how many hours you worked (and how much overtime, if any). The federal government has access to those W-2s, and can determine the subsidy amount using it.

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Re:Uber will charge significantly more per trip as new Seatt... by midasuni on Thursday December 31, 2020 @08:47PM (#25599904)

Your example said

12 plus 4

15 plus 1

I’d expect it to be more like

12 plus 4

16 plus 3

20 plus 2

24 plus 1

A 20% marginal tax rate.

The hour thing seems massively corruptible

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Re:Uber will charge significantly more per trip as new Seatt... by missedthecue on Saturday January 02, 2021 @12:06AM (#25610554)

The wage subsidy would only close the gap between the wage and 16. If you made 16, there would be no subsidy.

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Re:Uber will charge significantly more per trip as new Seatt... by midasuni on Saturday January 02, 2021 @06:24AM (#25612041)

Earn 16 get no subsidy

Earn 15 get 1 subsidy

Earn 12 get 4 subsidy

What’s the difference to the worker?

Fork 4/3rds harder to earn 16 not 12, see no gain. Equivelent of 100% marginal tax.

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