Uber, DoorDash Sue NYC to Stop Delivery Drivers from Getting a Minimum Wage

Re:Uber, DoorDash Sue NYC to Stop Delivery Drivers from Gett... by criddell on Monday July 10, 2023 @06:21AM (#36664266)

How does that compare with spending your time going out and picking up your food or taking your family to a restaurant? That has to be a minimum of 30-45 minutes of time spent traveling plus car or transit expenses. It might be more, but is it a lot more?

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Re:Uber, DoorDash Sue NYC to Stop Delivery Drivers from Gett... by csomar on Monday July 10, 2023 @06:25AM (#36664299)

Sure. If you make $150/hour, it might make sense. But that's hardly the case for the average person.

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Re:Uber, DoorDash Sue NYC to Stop Delivery Drivers from Gett... by Gigachad on Monday July 10, 2023 @06:57AM (#36664582)

The average person can do more things for themselves rather than rely on an army of underpaid immigrants to deliver their food.

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Re:Uber, DoorDash Sue NYC to Stop Delivery Drivers from Gett... by criddell on Monday July 10, 2023 @08:08AM (#36665181)

Even for the average person, a $20 fee might not seem that crazy. Imagine it's night time, you live in a not great neighborhood, and you're a young woman. How much would you pay to avoid having to get on a bus, ride twelve stops, pick up your food, then wait for another bus to get you home?

I think the higher fee will push out the boundary of where average, healthy people are willing to travel, but it doesn't push it out great distances.

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