The best Uber I ever got picked up in was a high end Mercedes driven by a bored retiree wanting something to do on weekends.
Clearly that ride was subsidized by a number of things and wasn’t sustainable.
But I don’t expect limo service at taxi rates - and I’ve started noticing that some Ubers have been literal taxis with an Uber and Lyft sticker on them.
Lately I’ve been using shuttle service or just car service.
It's probably a side gig, which is amazing. It means taxi didn't need to be a job all along.
Amazing for whom? Certainly not for the gig workers who don’t get employee benefits and are now sometimes making sub-minimum wage after accounting for gas and deprecation
Re:The Uber Bubble
by scarface74 on Sunday April 17, 2022 @09:12PM
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It’s only because of the US’s ass backwards health care system that people depend on their employee for health care.
Did you happen to ask if this was their full-time gig, or if they were doing it as supplementary income?