Re:The Drunk Men I Drive Around Every Night (2020)
by beeboop on Saturday March 12, 2022 @07:15PM
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It's also a "filters out awful drivers" and "avoids price gouging and dishonest practices" service. I hope gig drivers get their rights better protected, but I hope we also never go back to the days of awful taxi drivers. As a plus it also eliminates dumb rent seeking from taxi medallion systems
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Re:The Drunk Men I Drive Around Every Night (2020)
by GekkePrutser on Sunday March 13, 2022 @11:22AM
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Taxi drivers here aren't bad at all but perhaps that depends on the city. Here in Europe I've only experienced this in Bucharest, Romania and there it's a known problem that has its origins in more general societal developments.
The license systems were indeed pretty bad, the scarcity made them artificially expensive which was pretty ridiculous. The problem was the investment that taxi drivers had made, it made it pretty much impossible to abandon the system.
Still I don't think Uber really helps the drivers. Now they have to share their already-low wage with a megacorporation.